Word: businessman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...House of Commons last week permitted that greatly trusted businessman from Birmingham, Neville Chamberlain, to blindfold Parliament, the nation (and its enemies) to the more & more frightening costs of World War II. This was accomplished when Mr. Chamberlain caused to be read in the House of Commons a quiet little Treasury minute. It explained that henceforth His Majesty's Government, when it needs more millions, will simply ask the House to appropriate "tokens" nominally of ?100 ($400)-each token to stand for whatever vast sum is secretly decided by the War Cabinet...
John Levi actually looks as if his name should be Paddy O'Rourke. He also looks and lives like what he is: a well-off, semi-retired businessman who has softened with the easy years. But in his town's peculiar politics, he is as hard as a stonecrab...
...life trying to make commercial newsprint out of Southern pines. In his laboratory he found a process that worked, but he died in 1938, before the South's lumbermen could build him a mill. What kept Dr. Herty at his labors (and excited many a Southern businessman) was the prospect of another rich, new industry to help along the South's industrial revival...
...Grey, now living in France, who in World War I flew for the French, then for the U. S. as a member of 213th pursuit squadron, won the Distinguished Service Cross. Sympathetic with the international policies of the British and French Governments as opposed to the Nazi regime, Businessman Charles G. Grey), who still flies his own plane, is not to be confused with 64-year-old onetime British Editor (he resigned last year) Charles Grey Grey. TIME wrote about Editor Grey, ran a picture of Businessman Grey...
...light vices, of the alley Negroes (he calls them coons, Aframericans, blackamoors), of policemen, of livery stables, of trips to Washington with his father, he tells a great deal, most of it as solid as it is entertaining. He writes a beautiful chapter on his father as a businessman, drinker and practical joker, makes him, quietly, a great comic character. Chief cause of the comedy: he "was probably the most incompetent man with his hands ever seen on earth...