Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died, Thomas Nelson Perkins, 67, Boston lawyer, businessman, financier; after a two-year illness; in Boston. Lawyer Perkins, graduated from the Harvard Law School in 1894, became in 1906 the youngest Fellow of the Harvard Corporation. During the World War he was assistant Secretary of War in charge of organizing tue munitions industry, was chief counsel to the War Industries Board. Lawyer Perkins' speech was slangy. At a meeting of the Corporation, the late President Eliot once requested: "Will someone kindly translate Mr. Perkins' remarks into English so that I may understand them...
...compared with the Baptist and the Methodist churches, the Episcopal Church does not go in much for the sort of homely activity represented by religious plays or pageants. The typical Episcopal vestryman, often a banker or substantial businessman, would feel queer in the false beard and cheesecloth garment which a small-town Presbyterian may wear with pleasure. Doubly notable, therefore, was an Episcopal pageant put on last week in Philadelphia's big Convention Hall-biggest show ever performed by U. S. Episcopalians, and designed to quicken Episcopal interest in missions. It was called The Drama of Missions to Spread...
...successful businessman, Collector Wise succumbed to the bibliophilic passion early, sometimes went without his supper to buy some treasurelet from a secondhand bookstall. As his London produce business prospered, Thomas James Wise bought more & more books, became known as Britain's foremost book collector and bibliographer. He was a friend of the late great Algernon Charles Swinburne, Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad. He was frequently consulted as an authority on literary forgeries. Intimates smiled to each other about his harmless little habit of snitching lumps of sugar from cafe tables and hiding them away in a tin. At 74, dome...
...LIFE OF PAUL GAUGUIN-Robert Burnett-Oxford University Press ($3.50). Run-of-the-mine biography of the irrational businessman-turned-painter whose life W. Somerset Maugham acidly fictionized in The Moon and Sixpence. First full-length biography in English but Pola Gauguin's version (My Father, Paul Gauguin; TIME, Feb. 8) was less detailed, more convincing...
...Symphony. He turned to syncopated dissonances in The Daniel Jazz and Jazz Suite. But the rewards of modern composers-$100 or so for an occasional orchestra or opera performance-are not great. Unlike Deems Taylor, who earns money by writing and radio work, unlike John Alden Carpenter, a Chicago businessman who made money in mill, railway & ship supplies, most of his life Gruenberg has been a poor musician with an occasional patron. One of these was Mrs. Alma Morgenthau Wiener, sister of the Secretary of the Treasury, whose financial arrangements with him got into the courts three years ago, when...