Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Critics last week were inclined to award first prize to Harry Hering, in civil life a photo-engraver, for his boldly painted Maine lobstermen's houses. Like some college football teams, Artist Hering, technically a businessman, is open to the charges of professionalism. He has had exhibitions in professional dealers' galleries...
...businessman who would rationalize into the future, Dean Donham's discussion of "Foresight and its Elements" sets forth a sane method of logic. But the meat of the book comes when he asks & answers this crucial question: "How can we as business men, within the areas for which we are responsible, best meet the needs of the American people, most nearly approximate supplying their wants, maintain profits, handle problems of unemployment, face the Russian challenge, and at the same time aid Europe and contribute most to or disturb least the cause of International Peace...
...years Major Higginson knew every player in the orchestra just as he knew the names of every soldier in the two regiments which fought under him in the Civil War. Because of his great philanthropy, he was widely regarded as an enormously rich, successful businessman. It was news to most of last week's audience that he failed twice in business before he was taken into the family brokerage firm of Lee, Higginson & Co., that his generosity ran him close to bankruptcy again in his eightieth year (1914) when his brother, the late Francis Lee Higginson, anonymously took over...
...father's $30,000,000 estate. Joseph Leiter's sister and nieces claimed that he had spent $7,000.000 too much in developing Wyoming ranch lands, that he was extravagant personally, having once ordered 50 doz. pairs of silk socks. He cried: "I am a hard-headed American businessman. While my sisters were going to Europe, marrying titles, I stayed by our property and managed it!" He proved that he had increased its working capital from $12,920,000 to $17,387,000 in cash...
...first suit for $500,000; the second was withdrawn. Above all. Editor Chenery insisted that every feature interest every prospective reader. An article on cosmetics must be so written to interest men; a study of chain-stores must attract the eye of the woman shopper as well as the businessman...