Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Flying the Stinson Detroiter monoplane, Pride of Detroit, which won the Ford Reliability Tour this year, businessman Edward F. Schlee (oil) and onetime airmail pilot William S. Brock set out to circle the globe in record time...
...announced a step towards a parallel development of communication westward from the U. S. President Newcomb Carlton of the Western Union declared that his company was ready to lay a transpacific cable like its two new Atlantic cables. With radio so enormously developed laymen marvelled that so shrewd a businessman as Newcomb Carlton was taking so ambitious a stride in the cable field. But the science of communication has developed no faster than the demand for communication. The press especially will file heavily on Mr. Carlton's western extension and he sees the sun of U. S. trade fast rising...
...Chicago's total gainfully employed population, they comprise 67% of the gainfully employed church members. It would appear that professional people join the church in greater proportion to their total numbers than any other vocational class; that clerical workers come next, that skilled workers follow; then comes the businessman, and last, with about the same general average as the business man, comes the unskilled worker...
...jibes with empirical fact: church membership is a social phenomenon; the professional man belongs for church contacts, just as he more blatantly belongs to Rotary, Kiwanis, Lions, Odd Fellows, Elks, Masons, Knights of Columbus, B'nai B'rith, Ku Klux Klan, International Bible Students, etc.; the clerk and the businessman aspire to the same social security and economic advantages; the working man seeks his security in his unions, in preference to churches, which he considers "controlled" normally by the rich. The acknowledged membership situation is pragmatically so and striving to make churchgoing more religious than social may be the cathartic...
...Subscriber) The Alumni Review, Chapel Hill, N. C. Kudos bestowed by the University of North Carolina last month: LL.D.'s on Federal Judge John Johnston Parker of Charlotte, N. C.; on State Superintendent of Public Instruction A. T. Allen, and Alfred M. Scales, wealthy Greens boro, N. C., businessman; Sc. D. on Dr. James B. Murphy of the Rockefeller Institute, Manhattan ; D. D. on Bishop Thomas C. Darst of the East Carolina Protestant Episcopal Diocese.-ED. Omitted...