Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Supreme Court's decision strengthened the case against the Public Utility Act, power stocks also rose sharply. Shares in farm machinery and mail order companies declined. Cotton spurted, then sagged. Wheat did the same. Sugar broke badly. But allowing for innumerable and inevitable readjustments, the average U. S. businessman hailed the AAA decision as even better news than the death of the Blue Eagle last June...
...Except for a few charts and tables, however, most of the space-filling articles are contributed free by tycoons, sub-tycoons and assistant sub-tycoons. Most of their stuff is "ghosted" by hirelings. The week of business reviews is the one time in the year when a businessman can be sure that his sound-off will not be cut. For pressagents it is the week of business weeks...
...Addis Ababa warrior chiefs of the Noble Savage type bitterly and contemptuously complain, "Our Emperor is a businessman!" They should thank Ethiopia's stars. The astounding marvel is that Africa's unique Museum of Peoples has produced a businessman-with high-pressure publicity, compelling sales talk, the morals of a patent medicine advertisement, a grasp of both savage and diplomatic mentality, and finally with plenty of what Hollywood calls IT. The Emperor was "too smart" only once in 1935, when he tried by granting the Rickett Concession to Standard Oil to embroil the U. S. directly in Ethiopia...
Fortnight ago the Imperial Businessman had instructed Al Smith's publicity director, Josef Israels II. to tell the world that His Majesty was willing to settle on terms only slightly more generous to Ethiopia than those offered by The Deal of Hoare & Laval. He was willing to yield a great chunk of his empire in exchange for peace and a corridor to the Red Sea. The resignation of Sir Samuel Hoare and the tribulations of Premier Laval last week caused the Imperial Businessman to propose a completely New Deal. Ethiopia's new "basis for discussion," with which...
Since Food Machinery's Founder Bean was no businessman, his son-in-law David Christian Crummey looked after profit-&-loss. Present head of the company is John David Crummey, David Christian's son, who at 57 has been a Methodist Sunday School teacher for 41 years and has a son studying for the Methodist ministry. Mr. Crummey lives on his pear orchard, near San Jose, is installing an employes' playground with swimming pool and dance floor...