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Chapman had just begun his remarks when the chairman gaveled him to his seat. On the roll call vote, 111 delegates went for Phillips, with 38 abstaining. Robert Moran of Springfield brought chuckles and cheers when he announced his vote "against Mr. Phillips...
...small loan company. He also runs Courtesy Lease-Save Plan Inc.. which rents out about 1.200 cars and trucks, took in $1.300.000 in 1960. From these corporations Moran draws another $24.000 a year...
...customer recently mentioned his wife's name to a Moran salesman in the course of looking at a car. "Helen!"' cried the salesman rapturously. "That's the dearest name in all the world to me because that happens to be the name of my wife." "There's the Monster." Moran-whose own wife is Arline-lives in a sprawling, nine-room ranch house in Lincolnwood. a Chicago suburb, with Arline and the three children (two girls, a boy). He has three motorboats. a summer home in the country and a winter home in Florida...
Life to 30 Days. Jim Moran got into business when he was only eight, selling soda pop to Sunday baseball crowds near his home in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood. When his father died in the Depression, the twelve-year-old boy took a paper route and an after-school job in a service station to help his mother and sister pay the bills. He never got to college...
...going to have to teach cats and dogs to drive to ever sell the number of cars they want to produce and push out on dealers." Nonetheless, counters Ford's Lee lacocca, "the dealers are the first to acclaim you for coming out with new models." Jim Moran says that he takes only as many cars as he wants, adds that dealers have to be firm with Detroit to keep from being overloaded. He also thinks many dealers too rigid on prices. "If they can't sell a car for a $300 or $400 profit," he says, "they...