Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. William Brown McKinley, 70, Senator from Illinois; at the Homelawn Sanitarium, Martinsville, Ind., of prostatic cancer. Millionaire businessman of Illinois; 14 years Congressman; Manager of President Taft's unsuccessful 1912 campaign; elected Senator in 1921; he was defeated last spring by Senator-elect Smith. Few knew that for 30 years he was loyal to a wife whom he rarely...
Robert B. Howell, 62, Senator from Nebraska, is the milder light from the cornhuskers' state. He is a better civil engineer and businessman than politician. At home, people know him best as the able manager of the municipal utilities. He says little, admires Roosevelt, wants a low tariff. It was once said: "On the color scale Colonel Brookhart [see below] registers a near-red, while Mr. Howell appears only a pale pink...
...clew to the mind of the man: A Brief Introduction to the Infinitesimal Calculus, The Nature of Capital and Income, National Vitality, The Purchasing Power of Money, How to Live, League or War? etc. And all this was not enough. So Professor Fisher in his odd moments became a businessman-inventor. He conceived the "Index Visible" filing system, was made first president of that company which recently merged with Rand-Kardex Bureau...
Estimate. "With the details of business the President was not intimately acquainted . . . but he had other tremendous, valuable powers. ... I have not been greatly impressed by the capacity of the practical businessman for statesmanship . . . the President was strikingly selfless . . . habitually took the long view . . . played for the verdict of history...
...fashion in men's wear was thereby established. The mark of the businessman, the sign of his dignity, had been the stiff collar. Now the semisoft collar took its place on half the necks of the U. S. It was comfortable, and wives could launder it themselves...