Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Blenheim's bridle elbowed a stout, swarthy man in morning clothes, top hat and thick glasses-the Aga Khan III, spiritual head of 12,000,000 Shiite Mohammedans. Unperturbed by his religious responsibilities, he lives in France with his young French wife, daughter of a middleclass, provincial businessman, and raises thoroughbreds. "Proudest moment of my life" said he. "But you know, I didn't have a shilling...
Stalin and Hoover. If U. S. businessmen should refuse to sell Red Russia what she wants, gladly would British, German or even Japanese businessmen fill her orders. Christian, capitalist and patriot though he may be, the U. S. businessman has this perfect alibi far his traffic with the Reds...
When Detroit's successful mayorality candidate Charles Bowles entered office he delighted businessmen by drafting Businessman Harold H. Emmons to be police commissioner. But some businessmen withdrew their support from the Mayor because, among his appointees was John Gillespie, onetime police commissioner, old-line politician, to be Commissioner of Public Works. Friction arose quickly between Commissioners Emmons and Gillespie. Mr. Emmons now charges that during a business trip he took shortly after his installation, the Mayor permitted the opening of long-closed big gambling dens. He also now charges that he was forced to surrender to the Mayor...
Looking more like an alert, smooth-shaven U. S. businessman than ever, M. Pierre Quesnay, youthful manager of the Bank for International Settlements (TIME, April 28), received at Paris last week the formal ratifications by Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Belgium which make operative the famed Young Plan of German Reparations, or as they are now called "International Settlements...
...shot through the heart, the beasts sometimes live long enough to claw a dog to death.) If the dogs run a tiger into a cave, Hunter Siemel goes in after it, spear or bayonet in hand. That, he says-for he is a sportsman as well as a businessman-is the finest way to kill a tiger, in hand-to-claw combat. The spear or bayonet must be sharp enough to penetrate the thick, rubbery pelt through which no dog can bite; long enough so that an impaled tiger's claws cannot reach the hunter. The spot...