Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course at Georgia School of Technology. He made money teaching dancing in Asheville, N. C. and Atlanta before he left college in 1921. He set up in Manhattan in 1923, now has eight floors on East 43rd Street and grosses $500,000 a year. Typical Murray pupil is a businessman over 40 who pays $100 for 20 lessons. With 260 people on his $8,000-a-week payroll, Arthur Murray prefers Southern girls as teachers (he finds them forceful but gracious, extraverts...
...years at the University of Tennessee. While he was reading law in Chattanooga, he got into politics as an alternate delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1884. He cast his first vote for Grover Cleveland, was admitted to the bar just after his 21st birthday. More businessman than lawyer, he lost his shirt trying to electrify the Knoxville Street Railroad system, mortgaged his wife's Chattanooga house for $5,000 and moved to New York. There he prospered mightily as organizer and president of Hudson & Manhattan Railroad Co., which opened the first tunnels under the Hudson...
...freeing the land for productive use and restoring to capital & labor the profits wrested from them by landowners, was nearly elected mayor of New York City in 1886. After his death, his creed languished. Only a handful of believers were left when in 1932 one Oscar H. Geiger, a businessman, started the Henry George School. Geiger gathered 84 pupils, taught them one course with George's Progress and Poverty as the text, died at the end of the year. Next year the school got a new director and a business manager, soon was giving free lessons, mostly to middle...
Mediator. No direct descendant of any of the Barons at Runnymede is Lord Runciman. His father was a cabin boy who made himself one of Britain's shipping tycoons. As a businessman, keen Son Runciman added to the vast family fortune and prestige. Before the War, he was an outspoken champion of peace between Britain and Germany, delivered a public rebuke to Lord Roberts for having in a preparedness speech called war between them "inevitable...
...recently he asked his radio listeners if he should make a "businessman's campaign" for Governor. He claims that "54,499" people soon wrote in urging him to run. So, in a sound truck with a speaker's stand on top, he set out through the State-with no manager, no party machine, no platform, no headquarters except his home or his hotel room, no knowledge of any political rules except to entertain the crowds, to promise $30 per month to every Texan 65 or over, to kid "professional politicians...