Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Enrique Sanchez de Lozada, onetime Bolivian diplomat, now a Williams professor; Dr. Carlos Garcia-Mata, an Argentine businessman; and Roger W. Riis, son of the late social worker, Jacob Riis...
...Tugwell, who learned Brain Trusting as a professor at Columbia University, resigned from the Resettlement Administration and the Second New Deal in 1936 to become a businessman (American Molasses Co.). Two years later New York City's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia made him chairman of his City Planning Commission. Last winter Secretary Harold Ickes retrieved him for the Fourth New Deal by sending him to Puerto Rico to study land...
McConnell is a businessman and talks businessman's language in a quiet, persuasive drawl. He was born 52 years ago on a Colorado ranch, rode the range as a boy, became a mining engineer. Later he became a partner in a New York Stock Exchange firm, organized and managed Mayflower Associates, Inc., one of the most successful investment trusts ever operated in the U.S. Now retired, he lives on a 600-acre farm in fashionable, horsey Middleburg, Va. Commuting the 43 miles to his Washington office, he drives 40 miles an hour. Says he: "What kind...
Nine years ago, as a young businessman in Detroit, Henry Schuman opened a little bookshop with his collection of first editions. One day an elderly doctor wandered in, asked for a volume by Réné Laennec, inventor of the stethoscope (1819). Bookseller Schuman found the search for this book as exciting as "digging in the Klondike," turned up several unexpected medical treasures along the way. After this, he devoted himself to rare medical books...
...third group was made up of the weaker, just-one-more side of almost every U.S. businessman. Henderson regards this as the strongest factor influencing price rises. Although all sane businessmen fear inflation, none regards "a leetle bitsy price rise in his own industry" as responsible for it. To businessmen in certain long-depressed industries, higher prices seem simple justice, reviving dreams of some pre-1929 parity of their own. Example: real estate (whose owners would emerge mortgage-free from any real inflation...