Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...handsome Representative Clifford Hope of Kansas, ranking minority member of the House Agriculture committee, had come to compound the Willkie farm speech at Omaha. Observers held that the result was in many ways Willkie's most effective speech yet. The theme: that the problems of the farmer, laborer, businessman, investor, consumer are all one problem; that prosperity cannot come to one group only; that the national welfare depends on a unified attack, a unified consideration...
Said Willkie: "The farmer, the worker, the investor and the businessman have been like four horses attached to the same evener, the reins in the hands of a reckless driver, and all horses plunging spasmodically in different directions...
Economist John Maynard Keynes said that destruction had not exceeded potential rate of construction. "We have," he added, "the capacity to replace what has been lost by something much better." One businessman cabled his U. S. associates: "Lots of our buildings were dirty anyway...
More significant than the gloom among the sedentary, grumbling Republican professionals was the continued parade of bolters to Willkie, evidencing the belief that this man's cause was just, even if he was a successful businessman...
When Congress passed the first U. S. peacetime conscription bill, many a businessman fretted over troubles it might make for him. His chief worry was: the Act contains a provisional moratorium on draftees' debts. It re-enacts the Soldiers' & Sailors' Civil Relief Act of 1918, which permits the courts to postpone draftees' obligations (depending on their ability to pay). In Congress now are bills giving conscripts additional relief from taxes, rent, insurance. But by last week, having studied the draft, most businessmen decided it would not make them as much trouble as they had feared...