Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt's speech, simple and sympathetic, was more than a review of his two months in office, more than a recitation of the purposes of his Civilian Conservation Corps, his Tennessee Valley Plan, his mortgage and farm relief bills, his railroad legislation (see p. 12). For the baffled businessman who wondered whither he was being led, it was a look into the future. To many that future had looked like an era of State Socialism, with the Government's grip fixed hard & fast upon industry, agriculture, transportation. To others it seemed as if Congress were abdicating its Constitutional...
...Brunswick. After a few weeks there the President would return to Hyde Park for the balance of the summer. ¶ The rafters of the Washington Auditorium rang with applause one night last week as President Roosevelt appeared to address the U. S. Chamber of Commerce in convention assembled. A businessman's brief talk to businessmen was the President's speech (see p. 41). His prime request: "I ask you to refrain from further reduction in the wages of your employes and also to increase your wage scales in conformity with and simultaneous with the rise of the level...
That was a new record for John Businessman. Goodyear Tire & Rubber's Paul Weeks Litchlield declared he had "regretfully arrived at the conclusion that a measure of Government control must be introduced. . . . We have failed to take the necessary steps voluntarily so the element of force. Government compulsion, becomes necessary. . . . Our continued decline in employment and purchasing power is leading us into state socialism or complete anarchy." General Electric's Gerard Swope (who. over a year ago. urged industry to do what it may now be forced to do) said: "I repeat that if industry does...
...that whatever may or may not come of the Roosevelt-Herriot-MacDonald conversations in Washington, U. S. isolation as a world power is defi- nitely over. What this might mean for France they could not yet tell, but threats of further U. S. inflation had every French statesman, every businessman worried. Frenchmen, badly burned by their own inflation of 1924-25. would throw out by nightfall any government that suggested a parallel move. In effect the British loan married the paper pound to the gold franc, made them an effective team to maneuver against any sudden tricks on the part...
...news is it for Labor to favor shorter working hours, nor for politicians to favor shorter working hours for their constituents. Not so great news is it as formerly for manufacturers to favor shorter working hours. Nonetheless it was a shock to many a businessman to learn last week that Gerard Swope, president of General Electric, appearing before a committee of Congress favored if not a 30-hour week at least the next thing to it. A bill before Congress (TIME, Jan. 23) would prohibit the shipment in interstate commerce of goods manufactured in any plant where workers labored more...