Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cases differ: Mr. Smith, a politician with ambition, had received money from an interested businessman; Mr. Gould, a businessman, had helped out a needy politician...
...above came from a U. S. businessman in Szechuan, huge and remote province...
When President Harding was casting about for a Secretary of Labor in 1921, there was much talk as to whether he should pick a businessman or a laborite. He compromised and chose Mr. Davis, a man who still carried his union card but who thought well of the open shop. The result was that Secretary Hoover, businessman, ran most of the labor affairs of the Cabinet. When the conference on unemployment was held in 1921, Mr. Hoover dominated it, causing Clinton W. ("Mirrors") Gilbert to remark that "the finest example of the unemployed at it was the Secretary of Labor...
...earth, and He, on the seventh day, rested." Thus began the first of many rhapsodies, conceived by U. S. Postmaster W. J. O'Callaghan of Nashville, Tenn., to sell the U. S. mail service to Nashvillians. The emanations of Dr. O'Callaghan addressed to "Mr. Nashville Businessman" ran on exuberantly, telling of Cyrus the Great of Persia who had " a snappy mail service," quoting Gibbon on Rome, explaining the function of the Swiss yodelers, glorifying the Pony Express and the air mail. Last September, Dr. O'Callaghan held a pageant to exhibit his mighty works-with...
...charge of Internal Revenue probes, and a number of others in lesser position."* Last week to this total was added another. Senator Schall, performing one of the most important of Senatorial duties, secured (by buttonholing Mr. Mellon) the promise of appointment for another St. Paul citizen, Carl T. Schuneman, businessman, to be Second Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, with direction of government building programs. St. Paul papers shook metaphorical hands with St. Paul; spread the news in eight-column headlines...