Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago, Hollywood's Samuel Goldwyn imported pretty Sigrid Gurie from Norway, secluded her in a Hollywood Hills bungalow till she learned English, then put her in The Adventures of Marco Polo. Last week, Miss Gurie and her husband, a small businessman named Thomas Stewart, were in the Los Angeles divorce court, and a few perfunctory questions brought out that she was born in Brooklyn, N. Y. Said Mr. Goldwyn: "The greatest hoax in box-office history ... I am a very happy victim...
...Tete-Ansa, a Gold Coast prince who is considerably blacker (see cut) than his country's cocoa, is inclined to blame it on the British. "One day in 1916 I had a vision," he says. "I decided to give up being a prince and become a businessman." He handed over his social duties to a younger cousin, and devoted his time to the flea he had in his ear about the British...
...barbarians of Ethiopia." It made such an ugly scandal that Mr. Baldwin had to take it all back in the House of Commons; Sir Samuel Hoare sat with tears trickling down his cheeks; Mr. Eden was made Foreign Secretary; and within a few weeks many a hard-headed London businessman was saying, "Hoare was absolutely right." One of those hard-headed businessmen was Neville Chamberlain, then Chancellor of the Exchequer...
...keeper of another man's confidence!" cried ex-Secretary Eden, neatly suggesting that he was above keeping Businessman Chamberlain's squalid conscience. "Agreements that are worthwhile are never made on the basis of threats. . . . The Prime Minister has strong views on foreign policy and I respect him for it. I have strong views, too! Of late the conviction has grown steadily on me that there has been too keen a desire on our part to make terms with others-rather than for others to make terms with us. . . . Propaganda against this country by the Italian Government is rife...
...influential "old families." From an importing firm and small law practice in 1910 he has built a $4,000,000 fortune. Last week, as he took over the Presidency, he had the backing of foreign and Argentine financial interests, who expect an era of good business under their businessman-President. In a country where foreign capital has some $4,000,000,000 invested and where exports of the livestock and agricultural barons are 90% of the nation's business, it looked as if they would get what they wanted...