Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next day, after the committee had elected as Chairman, Claudius Hart Huston of Tennessee, businessman-politician whom President Hoover had chosen to prepare the nation for his re-election in 1932, the Committee members trooped to the White House, expressed respect...
...much credit should not be given to Her Majesty, but fact was that not many hours after the royal banquet Mr. Snowden, for the first time since the Conference opened, lunched informally with his chief foe, French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, and with Dr. Stresemann. As every U. S. businessman knows, the bigger the deal, the more vital is lunch...
Chancellor Streeruwitz, until recently an active businessman (textiles), listened uncomfortably to the anxious shopkeepers, then called a conference of his Ministers. From this Cabinet session came an announcement that "the misgiving noted in economic circles at home and alarming reports in the newspapers lack justification." It was announced that in the future Schutzbund and Heimwehr demonstrations will not be allowed in the same city on the same...
...among businessmen of the world. Last week at the Harvard Business School more than 200 students, from 27 states and three foreign countries, chose Owen D. Young, board chairman of General Electric Co. and Radio Corp. of America, chairman of the second Reparations Conference, as "the one outstanding American businessman...
...Army of new Bolshevik Russia. Furthermore, the Baldwin Locomotive Works was at the dangerous stage of turning from Wartime manufactures, productive of $250,000,000 worth of munitions and locomotives for the Allies, to peace time production for poverty-stricken markets. Answered President Vauclain, "To be a good businessman is to be an optimist. They will...