Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...private industry, if given a free hand, could do the job. Last week Herr Goring gave them their chance, announced the resignation of Kommissar Walter. To replace the State syndicates, the producers formed the Reich Coal Association, modeled it along cartel lines, chose as its head Paul Pleiger, a businessman who is also general manager of the Hermann Goring Works. His first move was to create "coal shock reserves" strategically scattered throughout the Greater Reich, and intended to prevent shortages in case of "railroad congestion" (i.e., R.A.F. bombing). The Volkischer Beo-bachter gave Herr Pleiger its official Party blessing, called...
...Signature is that of a U. S. businessman working in the Bolivian capital...
...music and smolders over the bitter treatment of the Fatherland. Now & then Lanny's friend Rick turns up. He had wanted to be a dramatist, but as the decade progresses he becomes a leftish journalist. Not infrequently Father Budd dashes over from Connecticut to give the U. S. businessman's point of view; he talks to Lanny about sex and a career, and to Basil Zaharoff about armaments, oil, and what wires to pull. They go to a great-many conferences-San Remo, Spa, Cannes, Genoa-where Sinclair introduces vignettes of Steffens, Mussolini, Litvinoff, and a sweet-tempered...
Died. Sherwood Anderson, 64, Ohio businessman who walked down the bed of a river, out of a successful paint business, into a vivid, dreamed world of his own, in describing which (Winesburg, Ohio; Poor White; Dark Laughter) he became for a time (roughly, the '205) one of America's great storytellers; in a Colon, Canal Zone hospital, whither he had been taken ailing with peritonitis from his South America-bound ship (TIME, March...
From the bankers' standpoint, the first nine years of RFC were the easiest. Jesse Jones always said: "We only take what the banks leave over." When excoriating the New Deal, the bankers always made an exception of their friend and fellow businessman, Uncle Jesse. But last week this beautiful friendship was strained...