Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...speech to the Boy Scouts, who were celebrating their 31st anniversary, made a statement that many a businessman would like to believe: "The Government cannot and should not pre-empt those fields of private endeavor that have become an indispensable part of life in America." This remark, so opposite to the oldtime Roosevelt denunciations of entrenched greed, gave color to reports of his new attitude of "sweet reasonableness" toward industry...
...that Britain's Minister of Labor Ernest Bevin and other British labor leaders will grow increasingly powerful during the war, be still more powerful after it. Ambassador Winant knows the leaders of British labor from his days in Geneva, has their confidence as no career diplomat or wealthy businessman like Joseph Kennedy could hope to gain it. The desperate urgency of Britain's plight may have united Britons more than doctrinaire and class-conscious U. S. citizens can believe possible; but the U. S. is taking no chance of being caught unawares if dissatisfaction develops in British labor...
Liberty Jones (by Philip Barry, music by Paul Bowles, produced by The Theatre Guild) is an allegory about Democracy and the dangers thereto. A pretty young lady named Liberty Jones is very ill in the home of her Uncle Sam, an amiable but confused businessman. She is menaced by Three Shirts of Brown, Black and Red hue, who keep appearing on the balcony outside. No remedy for her has been found by four pompous doctors called Medicine, Letters, Divinity and Law. At length, however, Liberty is raised from her sickbed, loved and defended by Tom Smith, a very high-flying...
Agriculture, the one U. S. industry which the defense boom has passed by, is also the one U. S. department in which New Dealers can still think in nonwar terms. There dwells Surplus Marketing Administrator Milo Perkins, the ex-Texas businessman who invented the popular Stamp Plan for distributing surpluses to reliefers without bypassing the grocer. Agriculture last week announced another Perkins scheme: the application of his Stamp Plan to cotton growers, many of whom have not been able to buy enough mattresses, clothes and other cotton products for their...
With him at Baltimore was Businessman William Loren Batt, the SKF (ball bearings) president who is a Stettinius deputy commissioner. Mr. Batt was no less downright with the scrapmen than New Dealer Henderson. Said he: "I see it as your patriotic duty to receive and sell as much scrap as you can and as rapidly and cheaply as possible. . . . The President has said that the nation would be intolerant of strikes that tie up defense business. I think he would add, were it not obvious, that the nation will be equally intolerant of careless, selfish management...