Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fight with Stone & Webster's Puget Sound Power & Light Co. He has built up a political machine of his own; in fact no man or woman has within recent years been elected Mayor of Seattle without first promising the reappointment of Superintendent Ross. Frank Edwards, running as the "businessman's candidate" in 1928, made that same pledge. Last March on the eve of municipal election Mayor Edwards summarily dismissed Superintendent Ross for "inefficiency, disloyalty and wilful neglect." Nobody questioned Mayor Edwards' authority to discharge his Superintendent of City Light. What was questioned, though, were the reasons...
...shrewd and amusing businessman is Proprietor Ernest L. Byfield of Chicago's Sherman, Ambassador, Ambassador East and Fort Dearborn hotels and the College Inn. No conventional, money-grubbing innkeeper is he but an executive with a highly developed social life, a flair for fun. When he was approached by newshawks last week on the subject of gigolos, he gave out this grave statement...
Married, Minnie A. ("Ma") Kennedy, 57, evangelist mother of Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson; and Rev. J. E. Hudson, onetime Manhattan businessman; by Rev. J. G. Gay, vice president of the bride's Everlasting Gospel Evangel Church (Olympia, Wash.); on the shores of artificial Lake Sacajawea, Wash. Said she: "The ceremony was performed in God's Great Outdoors . . . with His birds' songs in place of an orchestra." Later on newshawks found "Billy Sunday," her favorite horse, missing from her stables, concluded that she had galloped away on her honeymoon...
Last week Citizen Talbot went into his long-rumored bankruptcy. For one day it seemed that Mr. Talbot was merely a businessman whose strength had been weakened by overexpansion, who was left floundering in Depression's flood. But the next day California Corporation Commissioner Raymond Le Roy Haight made charges which, if true, will strip the last vestige of decency from the friend of Mayors. Also involved in the hideous charges last week was Clarence M. Fuller, onetime Richfield president, still solvent but jobless...
Being a good businessman has not caused Mr. Fitkin to forget his religious training. In memory of a son who died at 18 he has built the Raleigh Fitkin Memorial Hospital at Yale, the Raleigh Fitkin and Paul Morgan Hospital at Asbury Park, N. J., the Raleigh Fitkin Memorial Hospital at Bremersdorp, Swaziland, South Africa (which he visits frequently). Another gift was $1,000,000 for the establishment of the 200-acre Raleigh Memorial Farm and Institute for Crippled Orphans at Scobeyville...