Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Signature deleted by request is that of a U.S. Businessman who trades in South America...
...Dallwig describes himself as "a lawyer by profession, a businessman by accident, and a scientist by remote control." He used to sell insurance but has given that up almost entirely, still makes money from a special loose-leaf notebook which he invented for insurance salesmen. One day in 1935, oppressed by business cares and seeking distraction, he dropped into the museum, listened to a stock lecturer. When it was over he found that his cares had fallen away. He went to about 100 more lectures, began to bone up on geology, anthropology, mineralogy, meteoritics, zoology, paleontology...
...Socialist I am voting for President Roosevelt this year because I do not feel that Norman Thomas is realistic regarding the present world crisis." Norman Thomas: "It's a phony campaign. . . ." General Hugh S. Johnson: "Mayor LaGuardia says that if he [Wendell Willkie] is a businessman, Fiorello is an eagle...
...businessman's budget was a bust; he attempted to repeal the oleomargarine tax in a State whose car license plates slogan "America's Dairyland." Nevertheless, Wisconsiners tramped through snow and rain to give Republican Julius ("The Just") Heil, 62-year-old millionaire industrialist, another try at the Governorship...
...some shocking advice: that if it ever wanted to go to war again, it should fix a ceiling on all prices by fiat as soon as they threatened to go up. Mr. Baruch repeated this advice so often in the ensuing 23 years that many a businessman grew to think a war economy and price-fixing are inseparable. Already such businessmen see the corpulent outlines of price-fixing in the figure of New Dealer Leon Henderson, who sits on the Defense Commission (and now on the priorities board) as a price hawk, sounds off whenever a particular price seems...