Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...muttering to itself: "When will he start to sue CORP.?" When lawyers for SEC, a party to the reorganization under the Bankruptcy Law, demanded that he use the money he proposed to raise to get on with his lawsuit, Pollak made headlines by echoing the cry of many a businessman: "SEC persecution...
...Dealers, who have been gunning for the Boss's Georgia friend for years, figured this time they might have him. Chip Robert is first of all a businessman. If he were given to understand that there will be no more Government contracts until he quits his job on the Committee, he might resign...
...eastern campaign was being run from the committee's Manhattan office; its campaign manager was wiry, 4 2-year-old Sam Pry or Jr., Connecticut State boss, ex-lightweight boxer, businessman, big-game hunter. In his office Mr. Pryor scowled, mugged, chewed his pipe, sweated, conferred with waves of visitors, planned a political safari. Said Mr. Pryor last week, giving the impression of a man waiting for the signal to set off a howitzer: "Wait until after September 15." Strictly amateur, the Associated Willkie Clubs, whooped up by 28-year-old Lawyer Oren Root Jr., were under full steam...
...British tightened their defenses as the sky war raged on. They arrested scores of persons suspected of showing light signals to guide Nazi raiders.* They tested the Home Guard's vigilance by turning loose fake parachutists, secret agents disguised as clergymen, tourists, milkmen, postmen, women, bummers. One "businessman" was detected when he asked the way of a wary countrywoman, a "girl" by the masculine way he handled a cigaret...
...Hopkins successor for Secretary of Commerce, Franklin Roosevelt's choice was the New Deal's No. 1 businessman, Federal Loan Administrator Jesse Jones, hard-featured, big-boned, white-haired Texan. En route to Harbor Springs, Mich, for a vacation when this news broke, Jesse Jones had nothing to say. This week the President will see Louis Johnson-who, after being ushered out of the War Department, failed to nibble at a post as one of the anonymous Presidential assistants-to ask him whether he wants to be Under Secretary of Commerce...