Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...willing to hold up a mail plane for an hour or so to suit the convenience of a Cord hot-shot official. But none of these harmless facts webs with others to produce any picture other than that of an alert organization headed by an astute, scheming, self-effacing businessman who knows how and where grand parsnips can be found and buttered. His suspicious critics notwithstanding, it is impossible to read anything subtle into the grandiose interview Errett Cord gave out last year in Kansas City. Excerpts: "There is more opportunity in the world today than ever. . . . Fortunes change hands...
...full .organization, vacancies having been filled including that of Second Counselor, which had been expected by Apostle Reed Smoot but which went to Joshua Reuben Clark Jr., onetime Ambassador to Mexico. Since 1918 the First Presidency has been headed by patriarchal, 77-year-old Heber Jedediah Grant, potent businessman as well as divinely authorized Prophet, Seer and Revelator. When this patriarch speaks in conference, he is believed by all Mormons to be "guided by the spirit of God and His will to have said such advice as is good for us." Bewhiskered and clear-voiced. President Grant was guided...
Such figures as these last week made John Businessman sit up and pinch himself to make sure that the amazing upswing in trade since last November was really true. Cornerstone of the improvement, said Dun & Bradstreet, was "the strongest desire to buy that the public has displayed since Wartime days." Despite bad weather in certain sections, the final surge of Easter buying boosted retail sales to the highest level in three years and 70% above last year. Sears, Roebuck reported March sales up 57% from 1933. Spectacular reports were expected from the chainstores...
Percentage gains over March 1933 were, of course, exaggerated by the abnormally low state of trade during the banking moratorium. Nevertheless, for the first time since the New Deal John Businessman last week found his own affairs more engrossing than the Government's. Chairman Myron Taylor of U. S. Steel, having just averted trouble in his own house (see p. 17), told his stockholders that "in contrast with the uncertainties of a year ago, we have every reason to believe we have passed through the most difficult period of our adversities and we now face the future with confidence...
...partnership which lasted until 1910 when Charles Rolls crashed to death in an airplane. Rolls-Royce of America, Inc., founded nine years later with U. S. capital, and British control, began producing cars in 1921. Even before Depression, the makers found that many a well-to-do U. S. businessman, financially able to own a Rolls, hesitated to buy one for fear of appearing unduly swanky in so luxurious a car (average price: $18,000). Rolls-Royce hastened to blast away this sales resistance with advertisements boldly captioned: To the Man Who is Afraid to Let His Dreams Come True...