Word: businessman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...year-old Chicago businessman and onetime soldier was alarmed at the foreign policy of the President who as early as 1937 left no doubt of his opposition to totalitarian aggression. The General believed it was drawing the country into a European war on the side of Britain. He was sure that Hitler could not invade the U.S. across 3,000 miles of ocean. He believed that England could defend herself, and could, if she would, make a negotiated peace with Germany by which she could keep her fleet and colonies and leave to Germany economic control of the Continent...
Robust, 6 ft. 1 in., Burnet Maybank played football at the College of Charleston then joined his uncle in the cotton-export business. Ten years ago he ran for mayor of Charleston as a businessman's candidate, carried every ward in the city. Maybank put Charleston back on its feet financially. But his political career really in in 1935, when as chairman of South Carolina's Public Service Authority he sponsored a PWA power project on the big, clay-red, ambling Santee River, which empties into the sea some 45 miles northeast of Charleston...
Died. Alanson Bigelow Houghton, 77, onetime U.S. Ambassador to Germany (1922-25), Ambassador to Britain (1925-29); in South Darmouth, Mass. Ex-president of the Corning Glass Works, he was known as "the businessman diplomat," was influential in "selling" the Dawes plan to post-World War I Germany...
...years ago Manila was 16 freight days from the U.S. The fact that it is now six freight days distant by Clipper has made a difference to every businessman in the Philippines. Clippered samples precede many a cabled order. The U.S. Navy uses the Clipper to take out extra submarine parts; the Army uses it for flying instruments, maps, charts. Movie audiences in Manila now see newsreels almost as soon as San Franciscans. Manila doctors Clipper X-ray films to U.S. specialists, who send their diagnoses back by cable. Human ashes go home by Clipper for U.S. burial. Last Christmas...
John Hertz is a businessman and a tough one. He founded Yellow Cab Co., in 1925 sold it (and Yellow Cab Manufacturing Co.) to General Motors for more than $30,000,000, retired to the race tracks. But he never quit working, has since dabbled in movies (Paramount), aviation (T.W.A.), more transportation (New York City Omnibus and Omnibus Corp...