Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wrinkles and the red spectacle-dents on the slopes of his nose. He was not fat but he was exceedingly well fed. ..." This description was intended by Author Sinclair ("Red") Lewis, who created the character and published the novel Babbitt in 1922, to represent a type of U. S. businessman. A vast reading public immediately accepted George Follansbee Babbitt as the go-getter incarnate. A school of Babbitt literature started, culminating in Booth Tarkington's The Plutocrat. "Babbitts," "Babbittry," "Babbittism'; became epithets applicable to all those who, like the prototype, were ever zooming for the Home Town...
...Sono Art-World Wide Pictures Inc.). A novel by Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. which was partly a lecture on Reno in travelog manner and partly a triangle lovestory is used here as the basis for the first picture Ruth Roland has made in years. She is the wife of a businessman who, faithless and cruel, tries to thwart her divorce. He accuses her of intimacy with a former suitor whom she met by accident on the train. A little child is involved in the suit, and this secures the sure laugh that children's voices get on the microphone and also...
...Pont).? Henry Ford's nomination praised Dr. Dow for the scientific manner in which his plant was managed. Said Mr. Ford: "He is a most distinguished and successful representative of the American chemist who is also an executive, an engineer, and a manufacturer. As technician, and as businessman, his policy is founded upon a rare conception of chemistry's place in our national economics...
...plot, with Aiello, Capone's death. He was arrested, questioned. He joked police and newsgatherers: "Who killed Lingle [TIME, June 23, et seq.] and Zuta? That's easy -Santa Claus! . . . I'm a lover of outdoor sports . . . vice president of the Central Cleaners & Dyers ... a reputable businessman. I make $25,000 a year." But he was loud and earnest in wanting the Press to know he never had blamed Capone for the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. When he was freed under a total of $15,000 bail a few hours before the Aiello slaying...
...Author. The late great Italo Svevo's real name was Ettore Schmitz. Like his hero, Schmitz was a Trieste businessman-millionaire head of a shipping firm-who wrote in his spare time. In 1912 he met Author James Joyce, who is said to have encouraged him to write this book, which he did when the War suspended his business. When Confessions of Zeno appeared (1923) it had an immediate succes d'estime throughout Europe. In 1928 Schmitz, aged 67, was killed in a motor accident in Italy. Other books: Una Vita, Senilita...