Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Apparently Houston needs and likes and can keep its businessman-showman mayor. "I ought to quit," Holcombe said after last week's election. "I'm at my highest peak ever. You can't stay there, but I don't think there's much chance of my quitting. I love this...
...From China, from an anonymous Chinese Christian businessman, came a gift of $1,000,000 to the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions. This, the largest cash donation ever received by the board from a living donor, was to be used to build a settlement for retired Presbyterian missionaries. The gift, said its modest donor, was "in gratitude to God for my Christian education and life, and in appreciation of the service your missionaries have given China...
Just the sight of Sawyer in the glittering banquet hall made the N.A.M.s feel better. With his grey hair, rimless spectacles and prim manners he looked exactly like the businessman he once was. When Earl Bunting, N.A.M. chairman, introduced him as "a fellow whose mother probably called him Charlie," Sawyer smilingly set him straight: "My mother called me Charles...
...show that it had the interest of small business at heart, the N.A.M. chose a small businessman, Wallace F. Bennett, as its next president. He succeeds Big Businessman Morris Sayre, president of Corn Products Refining Co. A friendly, easy-talking man of 50, Bennett began learning about business early. During high school and college he worked summers in his father's Salt Lake City paint and varnish company. He likes to quote his father's credo: "No transaction of any kind is any good unless both sides profit from...
...refuse" any part in capital gains deals "until the U.S. Treasury says that such transactions are lawful . . ." Scoffed a CBS spokesman: "Mr. Trammell's statement is unwarranted and reflects unfairly on many creative artists who have done no more than abide by our tax laws like any businessman or corporation...