Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President's first worry was railroad accommodations; he wired ahead for three parlor car seats and was amazed to find a special train awaiting him. With him and his wife on that strained journey to the capital rode the Boston businessman named Stearns whose ancient dream of a Northampton mayor in the White House was coming true...
...money. But this method cannot be indiscriminately applied. In the first place, a high discount rate will attract money from foreign countries. More important, however, is the fact that the Reserve bank cannot make it harder for the speculator to borrow money without making it correspondingly harder for the businessman or the farmer to borrow money. A rise for one is a rise for all. If Wall Street pays dearly for money, so will Main Street...
...present production. In 1892, A. G. Spalding & Bros, acquired Wright & Ditson and A. J. Reach, sporting goods companies, and put itself in an almost monopolistic position to profit from that trend in U. S. life which was to add the football stadium to collegiate architecture and golf .to the businessman's routine. Had the famed football player who wished to die for dear old Rutgers realized his ambition, a Spalding ball would have been found under his corpse. The first Davis Cup tennis matches (1900) were played with Wright & Ditson (Spalding) balls. And back in the days when...
Assuming that the businessman control idea actually goes into operation, whom might Chicagoans select as leader of the business group? Young as Chicago is, many of its great pioneer families have already passed into their third generations. Among the Swifts, the Armours, the McCormicks. the Potter Palmers, perhaps the most available candidate is Harold Higgins Swift (president of the board of the University of Chicago, director of Chicago's United Charities). Potent, indeed, are Robert Rutherford McCormick and Joseph Medill Patterson, heads of the Chicago Tribune. But Mr. McCormick would hardly leave the Tribune to act in an advisory capacity...
...book transactions of this magnitude it would be difficult to estimate the elements of litterateur, bibliophile and businessman in each buyer or seller. Certain it is that shrewd business instinct prevails to a large degree. People were aghast at the prices, at the possibilities of further increase. They pondered investment in books as against investment in stocks. They had good reason...