Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bonds dated as far off as twelve years. Last week Secretary Woodin so dared. In so daring he not only submitted his financial wisdom to a major test but he gave evidence of an important decision by the Administration as to its monetary policy. During Depression, John Businessman, more & more eager for liquidity, bought short-term securities whenever he had money to invest. He liked very little to tie up his money in long-term investments. Fearful lest long-term issues would not sell, and tempted by low short-term interest rates, the U. S. Treasury issued more & more short...
...worth $325,000. in trust, Dr. Butler demanded that the bank return them. But the bank's Attorney Abraham Freedman urged that the bank should keep them in payment for Dr. Butler's note, Mrs. Harriman's loan. Said he: "Dr. Butler is a good businessman. He is nobody's fool. He saw the possibility that these securities might fall. . . . And if Dr. Butler were sold out he would be even- his securities gone but his debts wiped out. He took the gamble and should be made to stick to his bargain." Judge Grover M. Moscowitz...
...fashion arbiters for a dozen years, maintain correspondents all over Europe and the U. S. Editor of both magazines is young Arnold Gingrich, eight years out of the University of Michigan, who like his employers, keeps erratic hours but considers himself more the artist, less the businessman than they. In informal notes surrounding the brilliant table of contents in the first issue of Esquire, Editor Gingrich explained some of its purposes beyond offering an attractive medium to advertisers of men's accessories: "Esquire aims to become the common denominator of masculine interests-to be all things...
Jail is the penalty for shouting "Heil Hitler!" ("Hail Hitler!") or any other Nazi slogan in Czechoslovakia. Last week Prague chuckled at the zeal of a town judge in Jagerndorf. Before the judge was brought a prosperous Silesian businessman arrested in peculiar circumstances. He pleaded that the wind had blown off his hat, that he was chasing it shouting "Mein Hütle!" ("My hat!"). "You were not!" snapped the arresting policeman. "You were yelling 'Heil Hitler!'" Taking the policeman's word, the judge sentenced the hat-chaser to one month in jail...
...Absolutely levelheaded; a great businessman," is what his friends call him. His estate at Lake Hopatcong, N. J. is named "Sleepless Hollow." His motorboat, which is very fast and makes terrifying turns when the owner is at the wheel, is called "The Four Hawaiians," but Mr. Cook has not mentioned the celebrated and inimitable Hawaiians on the stage since the Massie Case (TIME, Dec. 28, 1931 et seq.}. Majordomo at Lake Hopatcong is Ellis Rowlands, a Welsh ex-actor still shaken by his experience in the Black Watch during the War. It is Rowlands, wearing footman's livery...