Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anti-trust laws. Said he: "I do not think there can be any compensation for unjust prices charged to the public. I do not think there can be any compensation for the destruction of small business. ... I do not believe it is possible to protect [the small businessman] so long as we permit these combinations in restraint of trade, so long as we permit the great combines to fix prices...
...businessmen's committee to drive out racketeers, who for a short time was Chicago's Commissioner of Public Works, who once ran unsuccessfully for U. S. Senator. For two days Col. Sprague and his colleagues had the honor of conferring with Mr. Jones, the biggest businessman in the U. S. (see p. 16). Then they emerged with their orders. In their pockets they had the names of 17 of the bank's 34 directors who would be allowed to remain in office and of eight more who were to be elected because the RFC wanted them.* Moreover...
...Grace Mackay Smith . . . worked in a Los Angeles realtor's office so that Tibbett could go East to study." The fact is that Tibbett's venture East was made possible by the generosity of a Los Angeles businessman who loaned him a sizable sum of money for the purpose...
...that while the oil code increased costs to producers $125,000,000 a year, $486,000,000 in price increases were being passed on to consumers. With North Dakota's Nye he went to the White House with another complaint. He felt that NRA was injuring the small businessman. The President offered both Senators seats on a new supervisory board, which both refused. It was then agreed that some anti-trust teeth would have to be fitted into the Blue Eagle's bill at the coming session...
...spite of his spectacular name, he has sponsored no radical legislation, has sought no spotlight. In Washington he and his wife live down by the Union Station in the Capitol Park Hotel. He acts and dresses like any ordinary businessman, smokes his pipe incessantly, tends quietly and fairly ably to his business as a legislator. His new tax proposals show conclusively that he is no longer bent on "soaking the rich...