Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York Cotton Exchange. With more time for golf, he found his game almost as good as of old, when he was famed for his putting and for playing a rusty old iron off the tee. Last week, like Bobby Jones and George Von Elm, Golfer Travers turned businessman golfer, announced himself willing to play exhibition matches for money but not to hire out as a professional teacher. His first exhibition, and first important match since his elimination in the first round of the 1919 amateur, is scheduled for next month at Upper Montclair, N. J. where he lives. His opponent...
...Ernest Stearns of Phillips Academy, Andover, but campus newspapers spiked the idea. There was idle talk that Trustee Coolidge, often seen about the campus, might take the post. Neither of these was elected last week. Amherst's eleventh president is to be Stanley King, 48, retired Boston lawyer and businessman, chairman of the executive committee of Amherst's trustees...
...created a magazine TNT (The Naked Truth) and obtained a license for a broadcasting station KTNT. With these he advertised his wares, scattered his heterodox ideas. Others bought his space and time for advertisements which a more scrupulous businessman would have rejected...
Nobody had told young Isidore W. Schlesinger, when he ran away from his New York home at the age of 18, that there were no cannibals in South Africa, so he had to become a businessman. In 40 years he acquired all the theatres, cinemas, broadcasting facilities in South Africa and a large share of its minerals, shipping, banks, timber, fruit, insurance, transportation and real estate. Last week he edged his way into the world's most famed monopoly: Diamonds...
...fight that loomed last week Old Robert was not the example of a great name bowed as was Rudolph Spreckels, nor were his troubles those of new competition which befell Col. Carrington's Hudson River Navigation Corp. His fight was the fight of the old-school businessman. To visualize Long-Bell one must think of the 14-story R. A. Long Building in Kansas City, must comprehend that on its 379,000 acres of land there were about 9,075,000,000 ft. of saleable timber, yellow pine in Mississippi, Texas, Louisiana, hard wood in Mississippi, Douglas...