Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Professor Arnold's name was on the tongue of many an inquisitive businessman as well as of many a parlor economist, for he had written a book. Put out quietly last month by Yale University Press, The Folklore of Capitalism achieved so much word-of-mouth advertising that last week its first printing was being rapidly exhausted in book stores from coast to coast...
...light of these inconsistencies, can it be denied that 'confidence' and Mr. Roosevelt go ill together? The power to create a state of uncertainty in which no businessman or investor will incur risk is vested in the President of the United States. Mr. Roosevelt is the first President who thought fit to use that power. Every ounce of it was applied. Neither graphs, nor economic jargon, nor statistics are required to show how Mr. Roosevelt made the depression which should always bear his name. He created it by methods which were as direct as they were effective...
...more famed U. S. lawyers is quick-tongued John Francis Neylan, for long William Randolph Hearst's chief attorney and at present counsel for badgered Herbert Fleishhacker, top-flight San Francisco financier & businessman. Lawyer Neylan was not in a happy mood last week. Not only had he and Client Fleishhacker just lost one damage suit in San Francisco (TIME, Dec. 20), but Federal Judge George Cosgrave, hearing another damage suit in Los Angeles, was handing him many an adverse ruling in testimony. Suddenly exasperated Lawyer...
...tightly-knit, secretive, high-pressure group of Manhattan agents who have field representatives scattered throughout the U. S. They get 25% of lecture fees, 50% if they also supply railroad fare. Biggest of the four firms dominating the field is that of William Colston Leigh, burly, smartly-dressed Manhattan businessman who handles Carl Sandburg, Mrs. Roosevelt, some 37 other ranking literary figures. Oldest in the business is William ("Pop") B. Feakins, whose 35 authors, including leftists like John T. Flynn and rightists like Lawrence Dennis (The Coming American Fascism), generally lecture on serious social problems...
...turned down the bishopric of the Sandwich Islands because he thought his work in Minnesota needed him more. Born in upper New York State in 1822, Whipple studied in the abolitionist hotbed of Oberlin Institute, married at 20, became a "rational abolitionist," a conservative Democrat, a politician, a businessman, before his wife persuaded him to take Holy Orders...