Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long trial through which sleek Businessman Lucania sat with reptilian calm, his high-powered lawyers launched into a 13-hour summation for the defense, attacking the credibility of the prosecution's witnesses, declaring that strumpets had been taken on wild parties by the state in order to induce them to testify. Mr. Dewey contented himself with a seven-hour answer. Urging the jury not to spare Lucania, he declared: "Unless you are willing to convict the top man you might as well acquit everyone...
...Cuba; Mr. and Mrs. F. Shepard Cornell, Manhattan socialites; Lord Addington of England; Baroness de Watteville-Berckheim of Paris; Dr. J. E. W. Duys of The Netherlands Parliament; Carl Vrooman, onetime Assistant Secretary of Agriculture; Bernard Hallward, director of the Montreal Star; Herman Hintzen, Rotterdam banker; Eric Bentley, Canadian businessman; W. Farrar Vickers, British businessman; Sir Philip Dundas,of Edinburgh. Likewise present were the usual Oxford Group retired generals, admirals, sons and daughters of Anglican bishops, Scandinavian lawyers, reformed Communists, college students...
...costs meant not more but less purchasing power for the nation (TIME, May 4). Though the President appeared to contradict himself a few days later at a White House press conference while elaborating upon the high cost of old-fashioned building methods, his statement was overlooked by no alert businessman. Last week in Los Angeles General Motors' Alfred Pritchard Sloan, a representative of an industry whose history is most clearly at variance with the President's observation, delivered the first measured rebuttal to Jefferson Day economics. Said G. M.'s president...
Germany's future, as seen by a businessman: bankruptcy within a year; inflation; more unemployment and starvation; a Germany of "marvelous buildings, wonderful roads, a great army and-nothing to eat"; the collapse of the Nazi regime; an Army dictatorship; the return of the Hohenzollerns...
Germany's tyrants Spivak describes as super-efficient grafting gangsters, its people dolts. Spivak quotes an anonymous U. S. businessman as charging Nazi officials with systematic shakedowns of business for "protection" against boycotts. Espionage is carried to the point of ingenious Dictaphone-telephones which record conversations within a room even when the telephone is on the hook...