Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Businessman-Boss Brennan is getting mellow. He is playing his last big game, "betting his bossdom against a seat in the U. S. Senate that Illinois is sick of prohibition." The voters perk up their ears and open their eyes. Now they can see how this backroom worker of cigar stores and old saloons performs. He feeds their curiosity with garrulous anecdotes, he says little of economic significances...
Army-Man Dalton is not to be confused with able Cleveland Businessman H. G. Dalton, President of the Interstate Steamship Co., who was appointed by President Coolidge last October to make a factual report on the then inextricable Shipping Board tangle. What sagacious Shipper Dalton's report was, if any; when it was published, if ever; what action based upon it was subsequently taken...
...generous. They would not shy as do the Filipinos at the thought of "exploitation" but would gladly permit U. S. corporations to acquire, besides rubber forests, huge coffee, camphor, quinine and sisal plantations as well, for which there will soon be need according to Mr. Bacon. Like a good businessman he brushed aside the antiquated altruism of the U. S. commission of 1900-1902 under William Howard Taft and the Act of 1902 signed by President Roosevelt, whose sole purpose was to make the islanders fit to govern themselves. "That epoch has passed forever," said Mr. Bacon...
Composer Carpenter is that happy combination, a businessman of artistic ability. True, he inherited the business (mill, railway and shipping supplies), but he did not drop it. He studied music at Harvard and entered his father's office. He met Elgar, pride of England, he studied under Bernhard Zielin, he composed the jazz panto-ballet Krazy Kat for the Chicago Orchestra and continued functioning as his company's vice president. Legerity, wit and polish are the chief characteristics of his music...
Fifty-year-old Sir Eric Geddes* returned to the U. S. last week. He came as a businessman, chairman of the Dunlop Tire & Rubber Co.,† to inspect their plants in Buffalo. Pressmen, scenting soapstone, pressed him for a statement on rubber. They got it in quick, definite sentences that comported strangely with his southern U. S. accent, which he had picked up as a youth working in southern lumber regions and on the B. & O. He said...