Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other sort of British businessman follows the lead of certain "Young Turks" among London stockbrokers who have recently been advising British clients to take their money out of "moribund" British industries and invest it in the U. S. This group highly approves of investment by U. S. citizens in British companies, the more moribund the better...
...millionaire, resigned his positions as President of Midwest Refining Co., director of Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, Vice President of Pan-American Petroleum & Transport Co. Instead of retiring he went to Johns Hopkins University to study economics and law. Last week the University of Denver got a unique businessman-professor and Mr. Clark fulfilled a lifelong desire. He joined the Denver faculty to teach economics...
...Horn" able, fully documented, damning. An elderly iconoclast with a penetrating, devil-take-the-prudes outlook, Dr. Puleston does not hesitate to say privately that the horror in which most whites hold "going native" has no scientific basis. As a physician, as one who has "gone," as a practical businessman who lived for many years in a community where every white man had a pitch black Congo woman, Dr. Puleston has stated that such a relation did not appear to harm either health or mentality. Whether it harmed morals he considers a mere emotional question of opinion...
...that he was preparing to step into Mr. Huston's place at the head of the committee. What gave substance to this rumor was the high favor in which Mr. Nutt is held by all factions of the G. O. P. A peerless campaign cash collector, a potent businessman of discretion and sense, Treasurer Nutt conferred long and feelingly with President Hoover a fortnight ago about Mr. Huston's predicament and the possible reluctance of Big Business to contribute to G. O. P. campaigns under the Huston leadership...
...latest play of Ferenc Molnar, Hungarian playwright, a businessman asks his stenographer what perfume she uses. To her reply, "Chanel 8," says he: "Try Molineux 22; it is cheaper and smells 37% better." Because of this speech, Playwright Molnar was sued last week in Paris by Perfumer Gabrielle Chanel...