Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...told that WPB has a new conversion policy: 100% real war production for the skilled big fellows, concentration of minimum, essential, civilian production in the smaller plants. Competitive tangles will have to be ironed out later (perhaps via a "Victory" label for all such civilian production). Meanwhile, the little businessman in some industries, at least, has a new lease on life...
...Bennett went to work as an office boy in an insurance firm. At 19 he joined the militia reserve. At 26 he was a colonel. At 28 he went to France to fight in World War I. At 29 he was a Brigadier. Before World War II, as a businessman-reservist, he wrote a sharp series of articles attacking the Australian General Staff for not letting militia reservists have high commands. Now he has a high command on which the fate of Australia may depend...
Baseball's No. 1 scholar is an authority on phonetics, philology, political philosophy and Romance languages. He is also an inventor (a lens for color photography), businessman (he acquired half-interest in a writing-paper firm by lending a friend his World Series bonus nine years ago) and lawyer (for several winters with the eminent Manhattan firm of Satterlee & Canfield...
Nice enough boy was Purcell; he knew the stock exchange end of the commission's work thoroughly; he was a true SEC career man ( TIME, June 9). But "Judge" Healy's candidate for chairman was ex-businessman Sumner T. Pike, his sole Republican colleague. A chairman picked on a strict seniority basis would have been Healy himself. But the Judge would always be more effective as an outsider-storming, needling, threatening to resign. Evidently Mr. Roosevelt hoped he would stay on in that effective role, to storm, threaten and relent many times again
...forgotten, last week got a new businessman to head up its industry branches: young (42), dark, movie-handsome Philip Reed, chairman of General Electric. Engineer-Lawyer Reed took only 14 years to go from G.E.'s lamp division to the shoes of Owen Young. Milwaukee-born, he got his engineering degree from Wisconsin (1921), his law degree (1924) at Fordham night school, while he clerked at Manhattan's patent law firm Pennie, Davis, Marvin & Edmonds. He got to G.E. via Van Heusen Products (collars) where he had handled some nasty patent problems, and to get there he foresightedly...