Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gift to the Jesuits, to be turned into a college. Before the day was out he called his cousin and employe, Norman Ballard, into his office and sold him Brown's and the Gorge, a neighboring gambling place. By nightfall Ed Ballard was a retired businessman...
...comes from steel that goes into automobiles and machinery sold overseas. Farmers do not know whether their crop is bought by foreigners or by workers who earn their money making goods for export. Only a few exporters can see any direct profit from trade reciprocity, but every farmer and businessman...
...fined $100 & costs for practicing medicine without a license. Notwithstanding the insignificant disposition of these cases, they brought to light enough evidence to expose an amazingly widespread and efficient chain of Pacific Coast abortaria extending from Seattle to San Diego, to cause California to indict five doctors, a businessman, eight lesser associates. Last week the 14 were on trial in Los Angeles...
...good players are not socialites as they are in the U. S., but ganchos (cowboys). Manuel Andrada, the Babe Ruth of Argentina, is a gaucho who has been playing high-goal polo for 30 years. Gazzotti, South America's No. 1 player, is a middle-class businessman. Luis Duggan and Roberto Cavanagh are third-generation, European-schooled sons of rich Irish-Argentinian ranching families. Cavanagh, at 20, is currently considered the most promising poloist in the world...
...flown gliders of his own, thereby earning his credentials as one of the earliest of "The Early Birds," a U. S. society composed of people who flew before Dec. 17, 1916.* But his most precocious exploit was the organization, at 15, of a company to make airplane propellers. Businessman and barnstormer at 21, Hamilton went to Vancouver, B. C. in 1915 to teach the Royal Air Force. While there he opened another propeller factory, later moved to Milwaukee to make propellers for U. S. planes...