Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Abram Edward Fitkin was the son of a harnessmaker, had twelve brothers and sisters. He studied for the ministry, married at 17. Five years later he announced: "It is better to be a good businessman than a poor minister." He became a bond salesman, saved up $75,000 from commissions...
...Industries, Inc., an investment trust formed about the same time as TriContinental. The purpose of this trust was not merely to invest, but to give financial and managerial aid to those situations in which it took a position. Its backer was Richard Samuel Reynolds, 49, an active and successful businessman. In 1905 at the age of 24 he went to work for his uncle, Richard Joshua Reynolds of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. He was soon a vice president and for his good work (including the development and marketing of Prince Albert) was offered a salary...
...feel on closer terms with the inhabitants than if you had been one of them yourself. Like every such community Tiverton Square has its social boss, Lady Poley; its most prominent citizen, Sir John Melhuish; its professional gossip, Miss Leggatt; its Citizen Fix-It, Colonel Parkin-thorpe; its shady businessman, Sir Herbert Livewright; its lady-with-a-past, Mrs. Gillingham; its rank & file of unremarkable characters who in real life would be of interest only to themselves. It is Author Mackail's especial triumph that he raises their realism to the plane of fiction. This year in Tiverton Square...
...racketeer-businessman is seduced from his comfortable wife by his unattractive but spiritual secretary, wishes when it is too late that he had not fallen for that high-brow stuff...
Daniel Carson Goodman, 48, M.D., has been a theatrical producer, cinema executive, author, businessman (he is vice presi- dent of Celotex Co., of Southern Sugar Co.), one of the late Cinemactress Alma Rubens' husbands. He has also written: Hagar Revilly, Because of Women, Battle of the Sexes...