Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...After a businessman ships a batch of goods, he frequently needs cash. He goes to his bank with documents showing that he has shipped the goods and that he will be paid a certain sum on a certain date. If his commercial credit is good and if the credit of the buyer is good, the bank will discount his "paper." Such "paper" is a "trade acceptance." U. S. banks at present have between $800,000,000 and $900,000,000 worth of trade acceptances representing domestic commercial transactions. They have even more-$975,000,000-representing international business...
...Buck denied that Mayor Thompson would be actively unfriendly. Mr. Buck said that the industrial East was "lining up" behind Mr. Lowden. Literature to accelerate this "lining up" was issued, setting forth Mr. Lowden's record for economy and efficiency, also his faithful pro-tariff stand, also his businessman's reasons for backing the McNary-Haugen experiment...
Sirs : Your new FASHIONS department [TIME, Nov. 14] cheats my intelligence, time and purse. I am a businessman (real estate...
...made more spark plugs (the A-C brand) than had any other man. Despatches from Paris, where he had died, gave no cause for death. But he had lived hard, incessantly driving himself at his work. Born in France, he made himself what Frenchmen call "typical" U. S. businessman, always under nervous tension. When he played, he played hard. He was married...
Vice President Charles Cason of the Chemical National Bank of Manhattan was University of Virginia's businessman speaker last week. He waited for the restless students to quiet down, then said: "The real responsible leaders in Wall Street today are big men- men of brains, men of vision, men of honor. There are scrubs, too, to be sure, for they break into every place. They create much of the public misunderstanding and criticism of Wall Street. But the scrubs do not run Wall Street any more than they dominate this beautiful university of culture...