Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These mighty benefactions, as everyone knows, came from oil?oil of a day when a businessman had to be crude to be successful. And yet. the methods of that day fathered the modern corporation. Much ethical refining has been done, to be sure, as witness the demand of earnest John D. Rockefeller Jr. for the resignation of Robert W. Stewart as chairman of the board of the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana...
...Washington, D. C., a fortnight ago, two of the 217 members of the American Society of Newspaper Editors debated what a reputable newspaper should do with the following hypothetical story: A prominent businessman, large advertiser, social leader, philanthropist, is in an automobile accident with a woman who is not his wife; a reporter finds out that the two had been in a roadhouse together and had been drinking before the accident; but the police are willing to hush up the whole affair...
...there the parallel ends, for the fabled dog opened his mouth to growl and thereupon dropped his own bone. And, although Sir Henri has been growling, (most indecorously for a British or a Dutch businessman), as if he were the dog on the bridge, he has not loosened his teeth from the Oriental markets. Mr. Meyer, like the dog in the stream, has made no sound in the controversy; nor has he loosened his teeth...
Thus, Editor Count Dalla Torre is both a loyal Son of the Church and a businessman of the world. As such he signed his authoritative initials, last week, to a leading article in L'Osservatore Romano which purported to explode the theory of a quarrel between Pope and Duce as follows...
Back from the warmth and flowers of Hawaii where many a U. S. businessman takes winter's rest, John North Willys, of Toledo, last week: 1) reduced the prices of all Willys-Knight Standard Six models by $150; 2) hired every man who applied for factory work in order to reach a required production of 2,000 cars daily; 3) received reports from salesmen that they had sold 30,000 cars during March; 4) notified Willys-Overland stockholders that their net income last year had been $6,341,519, the equivalent of $2.04 on each company share...