Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Mrs. Rue Winterbotham Carpenter, 53, interior decorator, wife of Businessman-Composer John Alden Carpenter; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Chicago. Mrs. Carpenter, president of the Chicago Arts Club, superintended art work for the rooms of the Double Six Club in Manhattan's new Waldorf-Astoria, for the Elizabeth Arden Building...
...time in his laboratory, which is often full of Yale, Harvard, Princeton professors working on scientific projects. No commercial experiments are performed there. He cruises on his yacht; golfs and tennises adeptly. Medium-sized, with sharp dark eyes and brown curly hair, Banker Loomis likes to look like a businessman, dislikes the publicity given to his scientific work. He has three children, all boys: Alfred Lee Jr., 18; William Farnsworth, 16; Henry...
Shaw's early Irish nationalism was sidetracked by Socialism and the Fabian Society, but for years "he would not rise or uncover for the English national anthem, nor drink the King's health at public dinners." Reputed the best businessman of living authors, in his poverty-stricken days Shaw rarely lived within his means. Once, instead of buying a cheap bowler he paid the top price for a top hat, had to wear it so long that "in its last days it had to be worn tail foremost, as the front rim had become too limp to lever...
Mississippi automatically replaced suspicious, pecan-growing Democratic Governor Theodore Gilmore Bilbo with Democratic Martin Sennett ("Sure Mike") Conner, a Seminary businessman and one-time speaker of the State's House of Representatives (TIME, Sept...
Despite the whirl in commodities, important indices of trade failed to reveal any fundamental change-of-trend last week. But since business has usually revived after a rise in commodities, many a businessman was cheerful, prone to look ahead a month or so rather than to express dismay over current figures. Iron Age reported steel operations up to 30% of capacity after being at 29% capacity the week before. Steelmen were encouraged by the prospects of a busy automobile industry for the rest of the year, anxiously awaited the results of the year-end rail buying by the railroads. Buying...