Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Month ago the Depression-made hair-shirt of popular disgust formerly worn in North America by Herbert Hoover was transferred to Canada's rich and pious Conservative Premier Richard Bedford Bennett, an able and aggressive businessman who neither drinks nor smokes but has been seen by intimates to extract furtively from the bottom drawer of his desk a chocolate cream. In desperation good Mr. Bennett attempted briefly to ape President Roosevelt's New Deal (TIME. Jan. 14) but this was dead in Canada last week and all but forgotten. From the first, Canada's alert voters sensed...
...much because he knows his bankers have no intention of calling their loans. Indeed, with money-lending what it is today, the bankers are only too glad to accommodate him. Behind his much-publicized, diligent playing with yachts and bridge hands, Mr. Vanderbilt is a quiet-loving, diligent businessman who applies his able mind to the affairs of his clan's biggest heritage, the New York Central Lines. Each winter business day he conscientiously posts himself at his executive desk in a gilt-topped tower straddling Park Avenue. And while Mr. Jones worries about Mr. Vanderbilt's problems...
...Kleano" was first concocted by a Belfast physician, later distributed by a Manchester businessman. Its name has now been changed to "Rumari." Said Author Walpole: "It tastes like dead fish." Four Chicago utilities over which he once ruled joined in restoring a $21,000 per year pension to Samuel Insull, gave him $33,000 for the period he was off the rolls. Meanwhile, into Mr. Insull's empty suite at the Seneca Hotel moved Sexpert Sally Rand, who peered at the black ceilings, sniffed: "That's carrying things a little...
...sons followed his example: Ferucchio, now 73 and back in Italy; Furio, 71, specialist in animal figures; Tommaso, 69, summering last week at Far Rockaway, L. I.; Attilio, 67, foremost sculptor of the brothers; Horatio, 65, another animal specialist; Guitilio, 63, marble carver, critic and the firm's businessman. All but Ferucchio are now U. S. citizens...
...designating one as chairman. Therefore he showed his personal preference by naming Joseph Patrick ("Joe") Kennedy for the longest term. The Commissioners took the hint, elected Mr. Kennedy chairman. But they must have done so with some misgivings. Chairman Kennedy was no New Dealer. He was not even a businessman. He was a Wall Street financier and a skillful practitioner of much that the New Deal deplored. During the 1920's he had been in the thick of cinematic mergers, deals and syndicates. Only a few months before his appointment, his fellow Commissioner. Ferdinand Pecora. had spread his name...