Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nominated Robert A. Lovett, New York businessman, as Assistant Secretary of War for Air (TIME, March 10); and New York Lawyer John J. McCloy as Assistant Secretary...
When stocky, baldescent Reeves Lewenthal went to Manhattan in-1932, he had been a newsboy, reporter, magazine publisher, hotel publicist and small businessman in Chicago and Detroit. The one job he hated was being a publicity man. In spite of himself, Reeves Lewenthal went on writing publicity. His clients: the late Cass Gilbert and other members of the National Academy of Design, plus some 35 organizations devoted to contemporary...
Henry Koppell, who was born in Berlin, is a businessman whose business happens to be publishing. At 16 he had to make money. With characteristic literalness he got himself a job in the place where he saw the most money being handled-a bank...
...Francis Hyde Bang's biography is a rather docile portrait of a personable, energetic, businessman-of-letters making good through capitalizing a bottomless facility for thin wit. It also evokes a rather sterile era in U.S. cultural history. The merry dinners of Bangs and his circle still echo bloodlessly in Manhattan's Century Club, and their humor, which used to roll the genteel families of this continent in the aisles, still lives palely in a few faculty-censored class annals. Today it seems hard to believe that a whole generation could laugh at both Bangs and Mark Twain...
Another wreath belonged on the grave of F. Donald Coster. For although he milked McKesson of almost $3,000.000, Mr. Coster, a dynamic and farseeing businessman as well as a crook, had gathered for the purpose a herd of very sturdy cows. Less than 5% of McKesson business comes from its own branded drugs, vulnerable to the scandalous publicity. Most of the rest is a distributing business, which wholesales some 48,000 different items, from alarm clocks to Coca-Cola syrup, to some 30,000 independent drugstores throughout...