Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week many a U. S. businessman thought his wish had come true; but soon Correspondent Walter Duranty cabled from Moscow...
Search for the card sharps uncovered stories in Chicago to the effect that a U. S. Senator had been flimflammed out of $60,000 while an unnamed businessman had lost $90,000 in similar swindles...
...stranger as yet unidentified. The stranger thought Lawyer Brown would be interested in buying some stock in American Social Registry, Inc., publishers of a "Directory of American Society"* and also of the bi-weekly Town Topics, self-styled "Journal of Society." Lawyer Brown, a graduate of West Point, a businessman of good repute, a onetime Chicago rail-road counsel, wanted no stock. Fortnight later Town Topics printed an insinuating story in which Lawyer Brown believed he recognized himself, his wife, and another woman. Last week Augustus Ralph Keller, president and editor of Town Topics, was under indictment for criminal libel...
...licking; whether in sport or finance or morals, the American demands the impossible 100 per cent, perfection: he simply must win. . . . England's greatness was built by taking losses. . . . When colonies and nations and states, including the southern United States, were unable to pay . . . England, like a big businessman dealing with a customer, did not get sore and demand the last penny...
...lived in Wheaton, Kan., you would be well aware of the 1Depression. For two years the crops have been failures. The farmers have no buying power. Things have been slow in the business district. Even the biggest businessman in town, H. S. Kusahl, has felt the Depression. His hardware, furniture and undertaking establishments have not done well. And neither has Farmers' State Bank of which he is president...