Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...uncertainty mocks the industrial planner. Business needs more than a mere breathing spell from legislative experimentation. It needs positive, reliable assurance that the complicated terms and conditions under which it must function are finally determined, subject only to an unmistakable public demand for their amendment. As it is, the businessman is the subject of more legislative concern than the criminal. The latter enjoys far less uncertainty of the laws prescribing his operations. The criminal laws are stabilized...
...White House press conference following Mr. Willkie's visit. He said he had pressed Mr. Willkie for reasons why companies outside the area of direct TVA competition had difficulty in raising money, and that the only answer he could get was: "The general feeling." As every businessman knows, "the general feeling" is more important in selling any security or making any financial commitment than the details of a registration statement. And the general feeling of businessmen last week was that President Roosevelt had yet to make a tangible offer to the utilities, a fortnight's headlines...
Lean, greying John Alden Carpenter, who has flirted gracefully with jazzy and other folk idioms (The Birthday of The Infanta, Krazy Kat, Skyscrapers, Adventures in a Perambulator), dislikes being called a "businessman-composer." Though he helped carry on the family ship chandler business, Composer Carpenter has been an earnest musician and a musical institution in Chicago for some 25 years. Last week he gave his native city the first big work he had composed since 1933, a Concerto for Violin and Orchestra. His good friend, Zlatko Balokovic, Yugoslav violinist, played the Concerto. A friendly audience applauded. Respectful Chicago critics agreed...
These sentiments, which would leave many a businessman cold, when enunciated by U. S. Senate Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley in Chicago last week before the annual American Finance Conference were greeted with thunderous applause. For the American Finance Conference is the trade association of independent automobile financing companies and currently it is in a tremendous stew over what it calls the ''monopolistic coercion" practiced by the four big financing companies owned or tied up with automobile companies...
...year's cheapest and the Dow-Jones commodity index declined 3.26 to 52.60, a new low since 1935. Cotton was down to 7.70? per lb., wheat to 86? per bu., copper to 9.06? per lb., lead to 4.67?per lb., rubber to 14? per lb. Though no informed businessman, economist or politician in the U. S. gave credence to the notion, Europeans of high & low station suddenly became convinced that the recent U. S. efforts to stimulate business would shortly be climaxed by further devaluation of the dollar in order to raise internal commodity prices just as Brazilian coffee...