Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...compiled nearly 20 years ago. To silver talk in Washington and rocketing grain markets in Chicago, the stock-market gave scant heed. Behind this paradox of rising business and falling stocks bulked one large fact: the indexes of trade are written in the past tense. By last week John Businessman was ready to admit that the swift pace of the spring advance had definitely slackened. For the stockmarket's sorry performance inflationists blamed dollar stabilization and brokers blamed the threat of regulation. But more disinterested observers laid it to the flattening curve on the business chart. Trade was still...
...being photographed, read a good deal, was delighted to get back copies of the Saturday Evening Post in Sicily. Apparently he worried little over what lay ahead until the last day or two before landing. When he spoke of himself he philosophized like many a retired businessman: "I never took pride in the fact that I made money. It was a pride in accomplishment. . . ." In Exile. Samuel Insull did not come back the same man who sailed from Quebec on the Empress of Britain in June 1932. His wealth lost, deprived of power but not yet humiliated, he first settled...
...Suicide or Revolution." The present president of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce is no such old-school businessman. Born in Brooklyn 61 years ago, Henry Ingraham Harriman joined the New York Bar, went to Boston to make his fortune. He helped found New England Power Association (which developed the first major hydro-electric sites on the Connecticut River) and untangle Boston's transit tangle. Director in many a potent New England bank and industry, he owns a 200,000-acre cattle ranch in Montana, reads Greek for relaxation. He has been close to the New Deal from...
Representative Doughton's able second in command who sat beside him last week in conference was Sam Hill of Washington. Representative Hill has the appearance and manners not of a farmer from North Carolina but of a spruce businessman. If, as rumored, Mr. Doughton retires from Congress to take a seat on the Tariff Commission, Representative Hill will succeed to his important job. The rumor, however, is probably to be credited to Mr. Hill, who is well aware how committee chairmen may be puffed up and out of their jobs...
...corporation. He now has 15 branches covering most of southwestern Washington, receives daily reports from each one, telephone calls in all emergency cases. Sixty-five doctors, nurses, office-assistants and business managers are on his payroll. Washington knows Dr. Bridge as an able surgeon and a closefisted, hard-driving businessman. He will stand for no nonsense about shirking bills. His two farms not only supply fresh vegetables for his hospitals but also provide a place where his debtors can work out their bills. Once when...