Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...galleries were packed with peers; Montagu Norman, governor of the Bank of England and many another stalwart banker and businessman gave anxious heed to the chancellor's words. The Treasury, he announced, faced a deficit of $182,500,000 on last year's finances; $160,000,000 of this was due to the two strikes. The national expenditures for 1927, Chancellor Churchill estimated at $4,091,950,000; to meet them the country faces new taxes to yield an additional $175,000,000 to $200,000,000. Winebibbers, fag-puffers groaned; increased duties on imported wines, tobacco leaf...
Eugene G. Grace, President, Bethlehem Steel Corp.: "At the annual meeting of my company's stock-holders last week, Richard A. Jones, retired Manhattan businessman, refused to vote for the re-election of Director Alvin Untermyer, son of Lawyer Samuel Untermyer, declaring that Samuel Untermyer gave comfort to 'undesirable Reds' and was 'a man of Bolshevist leanings,' and that the son could not 'escape adopting the same policies.' I answered that Alvin Untermyer was a substantial stockholder, as was his father, that he had served on the board three years...
...thin-lipped ladies swell like croaking frogs into the temporary importance of unofficial news-mongers. Over bored back fences, down dumbwaiter pits, gossiping voices shrill. In cities, the churning presses of newspapers join the rocking-chair chorus, give the daily pabulum of gossip, dignified in print, to stenographer and businessman. Shanghai may fall, Prohibition flounder; the names of "Peaches," Chaplin, Rhinelander still strike responsive chords...
Next day they went to see one Nick Ableman, a businessman. Mr. Ableman took one of their chunks of rock to be assayed.* After a while he told them what that particular kind of rock was worth- about $39 per pound, or $78,176 per ton. Tonopah, Nev., began to seethe with rumors...
Certainly no businessman, no bull or bear on the stock exchange would have been shrewd enough to guess that the Magazine of Wall Street, for the last 16 years, has been the work of a woman who once wanted to be a prima donna. Mrs. Wyckoff lives at Great Neck, L. I., has two daughters, wears flowers as big as her face, and is as energetic in her office as an outfielder on a windy...