Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Immediately Republicans began to point with pride; many a businessman from Wall Street to the Golden Gate was pleased. Senator Simmons reflected the Democratic opinion, said...
...strong as an ox and is as bald as a turtle; more likely it is because he has grown with Arizona and shaped it. In 1881 he arrived in Globe, Ariz., at the age of 21, penniless, professionless. First he became a waiter, then a cowpuncher, then a successful businessman. For 14 years before Arizona became a state, he served in the legislature; put through bills forbidding women in the saloons and banning gambling, thereby striking at the social life of the territory. In 1910, as presiding officer of the Constitutional Convention, he started Arizona off on the right foot...
...Governor Alvan T. Fuller of Massachusetts, Republican, art-col- lector, who accepts no pay from the state for his services, was re- elected. He ran more than 100,000 votes ahead of his defeated ticketmate, Senator Butler. Governor Fuller's opponent, William A. Gaston, potent lawyer-banker-businessman, has a wife who aids him. She wrote and, at her own expense, advertised the following letter on the day before election: "This is my last chance to do something for my husband in his campaign. . . I am proud of him. . . . It would take something far different from the Governorship...
...Monument. Japanese hearkened with approval last week as the great Viscount Shibusawa, "the Morgan of Japan," founder of the Dai-ichi Ginko (First National Bank) of Japan, organizer of the world spanning Nippon Yusen Kaisha (Japanese Mail Line), financier, industrialist, philanthropist, first "businessman" ever to be created a Japanese peer, announced at Tokyo that he will unveil the Harris Monument in the presence of U. S. Ambassador Charles MacVeagh...
...Surely I don't want to marry anyone in my own profession. . . . A fine type of businessman, or perhaps a great publisher or lawyer would do. It is time I married if I want to have a home or children. A woman must marry before 30 and 30 comes quickly...