Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Instead of sticking strictly to a discussion of prices, however, the President used the word "dollar," which rings like a gong in the ears of every banker, broker, businessman and speculator in the U. S. All was quiet on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange when the routine White House story was slowly tapped out on the news ticker. As soon as the brokers spied the word "dollar," a mighty shout uprose: "Devaluation! Roosevelt plans to devalue the dollar some more...
...District Judge Charles Irvin Dawson at Louisville, like Judge Nields at Wilmington, belongs to that huge company of Federal jurists which the Harding-Coolidge-Hoover regime left behind to plague its successors. Not only is Judge Dawson a "Block" Southern Republican but also a Businessman who resigned some years ago as board chairman of Kentucky Home Life Insurance Co. No friend, to the New Deal, he recently ruled that condemnation of private property for PWA slum clearance was beyond the Federal Government's authority. And for the second time he declared last week that the NRA Coal Code...
...talk of different types of human problems. Her characters are mostly riff-raff but gloriously magnified and particularized into heroic proportions: Michael, the burnt-out veteran of 32; Baruch, the philosopher of the one-horse printshop; Catherine, the virgin in search of an angel; Chamberlain, the cheerfully hopeless incompetent businessman; Tom Withers, the intelligently rat-minded foreman. Only ordinary character in the book is Joseph, whose very ordinariness lights up the grotesque genius of his companions, casts a reflected light on himself. Says he to himself, out of his bewilderment: "Here all these months have gone past and they...
Thus S. Clay Williams is not a New Dealer but a businessman-a tobacco man -but he is a useful New Deal adjunct. His fellow board members know perfectly well that he is on the side of business- which is part of his usefulness at a time when the Administration is trying to win the confidence of business. Because of his open taking of sides in the Recovery Board's debates, it was at one point suggested that he resign the gavel to the Board's Executive Secretary Leon Marshall-which he did. During the discussions...
...from conceded State lands but from land privately owned. However, according to the original concession, Eagle had the right to import supplies duty free. President Assheton was prepared last week to fight off any attempt to collect back duties on those imports. Nonetheless, the decree frightened every foreign businessman in Mexico, for, if the Government can cancel Eagle's ironclad concession, what contracts can it not cancel...