traveling salesman

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The daughter of a traveling salesman, Flores grew up modestly in the cinder block hills of Catia, a hardscrabble district of western Caracas.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026

Chuck Taylor was a semi-pro basketball player and traveling salesman for the Converse Rubber Shoe Company in the early 1920s when he designed the shoe.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 25, 2025

Set in the future — which looks like a mashup of “The Jetsons” and “Pleasantville,” Crudup plays Jack, a traveling salesman of lunar timeshares.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 13, 2023

In 1828, a German traveling salesman and falconer named Johann Spieker died in Lower Saxony, probably by drowning.

From New York Times • Jan. 30, 2023

Aureliano Segundo was so enthusiastic over the progress of his daughter that from a traveling salesman he bought a six-volume English encyclopedia with many color prints which Meme read in her spare time.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez