Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because the big businessman often has not the time or inclination to digest his newspapers thoroughly, because he likes to believe in a substratum of "inside" information which the Press does not print, because he is more impressed by gossipy chat than by formal information, the "confidential" Washington letter has become a thriving institution. Last week a select list of 800 bankers, lawyers, manufacturers, editors, etc., etc. were receiving free a new kind of "inside stuff" service which may soon be marketed at $5 a year. It is the brain-child of the enterprising editors of Collier's weekly...
What worried the average businessman was the fact that while these 165 corporations made 25% less in the Green Bay quarter, they actually sold more goods than in the same three months last year. Every batch of corporate earnings gleamed with examples of profitless prosperity...
Terms of the Knoxville deal could be readily extended. Certainly Bond & Share had no desire to have the value of its Knoxville properties extinguished by lopsided municipal competition. But the 13 coal and ice companies, with the moral support of many a thoughtful Tennessee Valley businessman, were determined to drag Mr. Lilienthal, dead flower in hand, before a high court...
...last week held forth to Washington newshawks in his syrupy Texas drawl: "These fellows high in business don't know anything more about things than the man in the street. ... If the Government had not got into business there would be no business today. As soon as the businessman sees a slight improvement he keeps shouting, 'The Government must get out of business.' Businessmen do nothing but bellyache...
...best piece of work I have yet done." THE DEATH AND BIRTH OF DAVID MARKAND - Waldo Frank - Scribner ($2.75). The latest of Prophet Frank's novels of "mystical realism," this is less interesting as a novel than as prophecy- a symbolic tale of how a contemporary U. S. businessman cast off the old Republican Adam, found himself. REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST-Marcel Proust-Random House ($12.50). Proustians will want this four-volume edition of the late great Proust's magnum opus. 3 MEN DIE-Sarah Gertrude Millin- Harper ($2.50). Sombre story of a South African murderess...