Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fortunes of the war. On the eve of the Senate debate he had General Robert E. Wood, president of Sears, Roebuck, come to Washington. An advocate of dollar devaluation, of the self- contained-nation theory of trade, General Wood has long been sympathetic with New Deal experiments. As businessman, he has served on NRA's Consumers' Advisory Board, on Secretary Roper's Business Council. Newshawks jumped to the conclusion that the President was grooming General Wood to succeed S. Clay Williams when NRA is renewed and reorganized...
...Wartime Quartermaster General, now a mail-order magnate. Before the Republicans could discharge the full weight of their artillery against the political implication of giving the President $4,000,000,000 to spend as he feels like, Franklin Roosevelt let it be announced that not a politician but a businessman was going to have the chief say in allotting the $4,000,000,000 for work relief-General Wood, chief consultant and adviser on spending...
This was the first major banking legislation in 25 years that Carter Glass did not have a hand in preparing. It was drafted in the Treasury under the eye of Governor Eccles. New Dealer though he is, Governor Eccles is a practical businessman and banker who has made and kept a fortune in his own right. But his theories of Government and Business were learned on the shores of Great Salt Lake and they are not the theories of Wall Street. An advanced student of the Spend-for-Prosperity school, he explained last week...
French justice moves slowly. The original charge against Cazot & Millet was made nearly five years ago (TIME, May 19, 1930). At that time a French businessman and collector named Michaux discovered that a Millet painting for which he had paid 150,000 francs was a forgery. Police called at the shop of Grandson Millet from whom the picture had been bought, found him ready to confess...
...businessman obtains his licenses, charters, and franchises from the Government; how he pays his fees and duties to the Government; how his business is regulated by the Government accordingly as it concerns public interests; and how he relies on the Government for the security of his transactions and acquisitions...