Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Eastman, businessman, has found the Gregorian division of years irksome. Statistics at present are never exactly comparable. Therefore Mr. Eastman has championed the International Fixed Calendar, devised by Moses B. Cotsworth of England, and considered well worth adoption by a committee of inquiry of the League of Nations...
...Durbin, businessman and Democratic politician of Kenton, who was host, was re-elected President of the Brotherhood...
...Torre Calles B 1 a n c a watched beside her mother's bier until, overcome, she fainted and was carried to one of the small, tastefully and delicately furnished apartments of the presidential family. Another daughter, Señora Ernestina Calles Robinson, recently, married to a Manhattan businessman, was en route to Mexico City from the U. S. The President stood for a long time beside the bier with three of his sons. His son, Rodolfo, is still suffering from the wound which he received when shot at by a policeman who bore him a grudge (TIME...
...they had, they would know that-victim of cliches though he is, Utopian and ambrosial though his visions become and offensive though it seems of him to announce his views as "heresy of the first order"?he is not an unctuous man. He is a clear-headed businessman and pretends to be nothing else; nothing mystical, nothing superior to others...
...Johnson turned about and, over his shoulder as it were, like a fond father done scolding obstreperous sons, announced that he was giving his employes a golf course where, for trivial fees, they could disport themselves after working hours. Said he: "If golf is good for the tired businessman it is good for the tired factory worker, and there is no reason why the factory worker should not have his share of the good things of life...