Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like a wealthy New York businessman...
...Hart Marks, 64, president of American Hyalsol and a $35,000-a-year vice president of Publicker Industries Inc., biggest U.S. producer of industrial alcohol. U.S.-born (New Orleans) and U.S.-educated (Tulane and Johns Hopkins), Dr. Marks did medical research in Germany for many years before he turned businessman...
...spare time Ed Queeny likes to hunt and fish and write books. He has written on ducks and salmon fishing and, most important, on the free-enterprise system that he feels Monsanto epitomizes. His Spirit of Enterprise (Scribner; $2) was a vigorous, readable businessman's counterattack on state planning...
...wartime administrator and ambassador, ex-Businessman Harriman had dealt long and intimately with Europe's politicians and problems. He had attended almost every Big Three conference, had ad ministered lend-lease in London, served as ambassador to Russia and to Great Britain. As Secretary of Commerce, he had dealt with allocations and export licenses; as chairman of the Harriman committee (which took careful measure of the U.S. economy), he had helped fashion ERP. "He is almost the indispensable man," said Hoffman. This week the Senate approved his nomination...
State of the Union (M-G-M). In Howard Lindsay & Russel Grouse's Pulitzer Prize satire, a number of political animals (a presidential candidate, professional politician, lady publisher, big businessman, labor leader, etc.) were herded into a sort of literary abattoir. There they were bludgeoned with ridicule, skewered with wit and butchered with invective; the raw meat was flung to Broadway audiences who ate it up for almost two years. Finally, the whole delightful shambles was tossed (for a down payment of $300,000) to The Great Knacker, Hollywood...