Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...habits are more casual, friendlier. The thermostat for this temperature is Lieut. Commander Roger Cutler, a tall, ruddy Bostonian, who left the textile business to take command of the Cadet Regiment. Known out of his earshot as Rodge, Cutler goes at his duties with the directness of a businessman, impatiently waves aside red tape as he tries to get his boys another swimming pool twice as big as the present one, or electric fans for their rooms or better chow for their mess or a fleet of boats to sail on the adjacent St. Johns River. Cutler's executive...
...living Americans who speak, read and write Mongolian, master of fluent Chinese (talkative Mr. Donald never spoke Chinese, disliked Chinese food) and a half-dozen Asiatic dialects, Expert Lattimore's career is a colorful one. Now only 40, he has by turns been a businessman, newspaperman, explorer, and scholar at Johns Hopkins. For years he lived in the desert in native yurts, native fashion. Last week, with Russia at war and Japan eying inner Asia acquisitively, Mr. Lattimore's appointment and the help he will direct bore new significance...
...Emperor also granted an audience to another businessman-turned-politician, Masatsune Ogura, Minister for Coordination of War Economy and a far more cautious character than Yosuke Matsuoka. This might, or might not, betray a lack of confidence among the Son of Heaven's advisers in the policies of the Foreign Minister...
...Oakland, Calif, high school 46 years ago Yosuke Matsuoka wrote in an essay: "If my country needs a statesman, I will be the statesman." He has been businessman, diplomat, foreign minister; always he has anticipated, with the mind of a lightning calculator, what it was that his country would need. He was an Asiatic expansionist before the Manchukuo Incident, a totalitarian seven years before the Konoye reorganization. The crew haircut, the round, boy's face, the carefree smile, the candor, the courtesy, the mystic organ-note of his speechifying, all mask the hard core of the opportunist...
William Christopher Handy wrote several very good songs and one unkillable one, St. Louis Blues; but essentially he was less a musician than a good businessman whose business was music. He is often called "the father of the blues." He is not; their source is profound and nameless...