Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...smart serialist, like a good businessman, surveys the market, knows what the public wants. When Faith Baldwin had published 28 books, including a dozen best selling romances about modern business women (The Office Wife, Week-End Marriage, Self-Made Woman, White Collar Girl), she decided that her public might like to read a family saga. Mazo de la Roche had made a phenomenal success with her Jalna books. Last year Faith Baldwin plunged into a set of serious novels tracing the development of a typical middle class family from its U. S. beginning to the present. Partly sober realism, partly...
...stock somewhat similar to that traced in American Family, Author Baldwin began to write at the age of six, when she turned out a play characteristically called The Deserted Wife. Neighbors in the quiet Fort Hamilton district of Brooklyn knew her as the wife of a Brooklyn businessman, the mother of three sons and a daughter, unobtrusively active in Brooklyn Junior League affairs, when the sensational success of Alimony in 1928 suddenly lifted her from the status of routine magazine contributor to that of a popular favorite...
...duel of pure animal rage. Heavy cavalry sabres at dawn were wanted by Count Balint Szechenyi, kinsman of Hungary's Minister at London, Count Laszlo Szechenyi who is husband to Gladys Vanderbilt. Count Balint Szechenyi had heard something his wife's first husband, a Jewish businessman named Victor Stein, had said about her. Victor Stein was mad too. On the field of honor the two hurled themselves at one another three times. Stein severely battered the Count's head. The Count sliced Stein's nose through, nearly taking it off. Cursing, weeping and gushing blood...
Nearly every lawyer, broker, banker and businessman in the land last week was almost wholly preoccupied with the overthrow of NRA. Full implications of the Supreme Court's decision were by no means clear, and while U. S. Business was more relieved than downright joyful, it was also jittery. Overnight, the stock-market greeted the return of business freedom with an opening rally, then dropped sharply, declined for the rest of the week. Uncertainty over the future of NRA and other New Deal legislation precipitated a general break in commodities. Wheat sank 5? per bu. to the lowest price...
...insists that the elevator girls in the store take elocution lessons so that they may sing out "Third Floor, Ladies' & Misses' Underwear!" in the proper way. (He also insists that the girls be young and demure, with busts no larger than 36 in.) A shrewd and canny businessman, he lifted Strawbridge & Clothier's gross revenue from $20,000,000 in 1933 to $23,000,000 last year, reported earnings of $331,000, best since 1931. Active in forming the American Retail Federation for binding retailers into a national organization (TIME, April 29), he is regarded in Philadelphia...