Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...youth. As the last of the conquering Manchus that ruled China since 1644 it was his duty to have at least two wives. He did not want two wives, for he had already picked a beautiful bride from the catalog of a marriage broker. The daughter of a Manchu businessman named Jung Yuang, she had been educated by the Sisters Miriam and Isabel Ingram. Philadelphia missionaries, and preferred to be called Elizabeth. Elizabeth was quite sufficient but on the insistence of his Japanese "protectors" in Tientsin Henry took Wife...
What Mr. Whitney wished he could do in addition last week was to sit down and have a heart-to-heart with every small businessman in the land. The Stock Exchange president was sure that he had a case which could win countless little fellows over to his side - the man with the small tool factory in Indianapolis, the owner of a little cannery in California, the proprietor of Grand Rapids' biggest department store. Each of these little corporations had stock which was unlisted on any exchange. The Exchange Bill, as Mr. Whitney wanted to tell each small businessman...
Hard on the heels of the Big Board in trying to build up a businessman's counterattack against the Exchange Bill was the New York Curb, second largest exchange in the U. S. Able young President E. Burd Grubb, elected only last week, lost no time in emulating President Whitney's methods. President Michael J. O'Brien of the Chicago Stock Exchange, third largest in the U. S., did the same thing.* To businessmen throughout the land who thought that the proposed legislation was no concern of theirs, lawyers, brokers, bankers and dealers preached the same simple...
...thinks U. S. reverence for the Founding Fathers much out of place, dubs them the "Funding Fathers." When Congress decided, during Alexander Hamilton's treasuryship, to redeem at par value the nearly worthless certificates with which the Revolutionary Army had been paid, fortunes were made by many a businessman and politician who got to backwoods scrip-owners before the news did. Twenty-nine of the 64 members of the House of Representatives got a share of the pickings. Few great names (Washington's is an exception) escape McConaughy's scorn. Few schoolboys who remember that Patrick Henry...
Classes are held one evening each week. In the directors room of American State Savings Bank citizens wrestle with Political Science ("Business brains becoming active here, will build stronger political leadership") under Businessman John F. Brisbin, assisted by Clothing Merchant Louis May and Editorial Writer Glenn K. Stimson of the Lansing State Journal. Division Superintendent F. W. Openlander of Reo Motor Car Co. goes to Olds Motor Administration Building to lead discussions of Current Industrial Problems. Lawyer William H. Wise teaches Effective Speaking ("Not more talk, but more effective talk") at the Reo Club House. James E. Moroney, young Olds...