Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chicago, often casually termed the "worst governed city in the world,'' approached, last week, another major cure experiment. Coming to a head was a plan for a businessman's administration. The plan, as announced by Silas Hardy Strawn, onetime (1927-28) president of the U. S. Bar Association, calls for cooperation with the regularly constituted municipal authorities, rather than the creation of a new city government. Thus, for instance, a famed engineer would sit at the right hand of the city's Director of Public Works. A famed banker would lend talent to the City Treasurer. The leader of this...
Thus, with a large gesture, Walter P. Chrysler ended twelve months of extraordinary activity. From a motor man with one product, he had become one of the chief U. S. industrialists. Undeniably, he had been the outstanding businessman of the year...
...There still is a race which says: 'Of course, I'm a businessman and music means nothing to me.' But more people are beginning to realize that they might as well boast in this fashion: 'Part of my brain doesn't work, hence music means nothing to me.' It is ceasing to be such a very great mark of distinction to be a lowbrow...
Lawyer West, good mixer that he was, drifted naturally into politics. He became State chairman, then national secretary of the G. O. P., retaining his good law practice and investments the while. Samuel Insull, astute businessman that he was, became the public utilities potentate of the Midwest. When government regulation of public utilities was found necessary, Mr. Insull also drifted naturally into politics, in the role of large contributor to campaign funds. Illinois is a Republican State so Mr. Insull gave chiefly to Lawyer West's party, though when he was quizzed two years ago about contributing heavily...
...keys. You need not trouble to burst open my drawers and root in them like cochons." Even in jail she seemed undiscouraged. "My arrest, pouf! It is nothing," she said, "I work by American methods! It is no disgrace in the United States for a banker or a businessman to go into bankruptcy three or four times...