Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make an electric cash register and did. His manners annoyed the late John Henry Patterson who fired him on sight time & again. The engineering department repeatedly rehired him. For while Inventor Kettering has come by a fortune in his own right he is the antithesis of the successful businessman. He may go to a formal dinner in a sports jacket and not even be aware of it. He has boarded trains without a ticket or a cent...
...event, there would have been little excitement at Amherst College last week when Dr. Stanley King, able lawyer-businessman, was inaugurated nth president. Few days before the ceremonies. Amherst was quiet. Seniors sat on their fence, as only they may do. Somewhere about was "Dean"' Burns, the campus character who imagines he is the dean of Amherst, of Smith, of Mt. Holyoke. Many a student walked over to nearby Smith, whose ladies observe "They're mild but they satisfy." Then all over Amherst went the tantalizing news that Sabrina had been on view. Not only that, but Sabrina had been...
...picture but for the presence in it of Herbert Marshall and Sari Maritza. Marshall is Count von Degenthal who, in the failing of his family's fortunes, has been forced to capitalize his good manners in the ignoble profession of gigolo. Maritza is the pretty daughter of a wealthy businessman who admires the count but despises his calling. When a fat U. S. widow (Mary Boland) buys the von Degenthal castle at an auction and plans to modernize it into an apartment hotel with the count for manager and his valet (Charles Ruggles) for maitre d'hotel, the inevitable alliance...
...Rufus Isaacs . . . who saved the Indian Empire that Disraeli created for them. . . . It is not his brain power, his cunning, which England settled on and used. . . . It is the grand manner which is his genius . . . a politeness that introduces serenity and grace wherever it is put. . . . The Jewish businessman's genius is . . . almost banal beside this astonishing Lord Reading. . . . He is the finished product of a century of civilized treatment, the beautiful reappearance of the noble, polished...
...story alone will Hands as Bands be read by many a downtown New Yorker. For Author Revere is that formidable thing, a businessman turned author in middle life. He is the cotton expert for Munds, Winslow & Potter. His market letters have for years been famed as models of rhetoric as well as sagacity. Friends and critics have told him for years he should have been a writing man. Now he is confident he has justified their and his belief that he could do a big novel in a big way. His story barges indomitably on & on through 330 pages with...