Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Profits. However harassed the oil industry is by its problems, many a businessman in other lines last week viewed 1929 earnings of oil companies with envy. The duress of last year apparently did not hurt well-managed companies. Notable earnings statements included...
Robert K. Cassatt, Philadelphia banker, son of the late president of the Pennsylvania R. R., said his business took him all over the U. S., that he had never met a businessman "who volunteered the information that his business was benefited by Prohibition," that the only two people he knew who had stopped drinking under the law were a U. S. Senator and a Pennsylvania judge...
...next potent businessman to flay Prohibition was Henry Bourne Joy of Detroit, onetime president of Packard Motor Co. He identified himself as a Presbyterian, a five-year supporter of the 18th Amendment. Then he proceeded...
Ambassador Sackett will apply himself as a businessman to the expansion of trade. Born in Providence 61 years ago, he was graduated from Brown, became a migrating lawyer, finally settled in Louisville. His corporation practice put him at the head of Louisville Gas Co. He acquired coal mines, dipped into politics, was carried to Washington as Kentucky's Senator by the Coolidge sweep of 1924. Short, sandy, round-stomached, he plodded through his term, rarely made a speech, much less an oration. He was on the way to becoming a "lame duck" in this year's campaign when...
...mouths of pedagogs but from Edward A. Filene, Boston merchant (Wm. Filene's Sons Co.), charitarian, peace promoter, came a solution of pedagogical salary woes. Businessman Filene, whose who in Who's Who describes him as agitating to "increase wages and profits and raise the general standards of living," suggested a mild form of intellectual boycott. Said he, in a letter to the Association: "My hope is that our teachers will prove to be sufficiently selfish. Then it will be up to the colleges to find a way to keep them from accepting offers which they...