Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Embodying the second principle of the new program, endeavor to train men in private business for practical contact with the Government, Dr. Isaacs' course will show the businessman actually functioning with the Government...
...Department of Justice could not keep track of the vast jungle of executive laws burgeoning in Washington, how could John Businessman be expected to? The Court proceeded to quiz Assistant Attorney General Harold M. Stephens as follows...
...were scattered through the files of the agencies which had issued them. Some had gone out as press releases, as mimeographed sheets or pamphlets to those who had put themselves on the agencies' mailing lists. Others were simply tucked away in the files. Nowhere in the land could a businessman anxious to obey the law find in one place all the laws he was supposed to obey...
...assembled congregation of New York City Mormons a local businessman named Fred G. Taylor repeatedly said: "All in favor of sustaining the appointment, signify in the usual manner." Repeatedly the members of the congregation signified by raising their hands that they approved of all their Church's officers from the Prophet, Seer & Revelator down to the Presiding Elder of Oceanside, L. I. When it was all over Mr. Taylor remarked "the vote seems to have been unanimous," and New York had its first "Stake of Zion...
...Drake had been in Gulf once before, as assistant to William Mellon. Subsequently he had distinguished himself by serving Andrew Mellon "in a confidential capacity" during the Harding and Coolidge administrations. A moderately successful Springfield, Mass. businessman, he went to Pittsburgh with the Army Ordnance during the World War. There he met the Mellons and the Mellons liked him. They made him successively president of Standard Steel Car, and, in 1930, chairman of Pullman, Inc., where he represented the Mellon interests...