Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...comments in Rio showed where Pawley had made his mark, and what kind of mark. Said a U.S. businessman: "He's the best we've ever had." Said a Rio professor: "Your ambassador doesn't know a single man of letters, only businessmen...
Wedgwood was primarily a businessman with an inventor's mind; it was almost an accident that he also had an artist's eye. He never got beyond the three Rs in school; when he was 14 he went to work for an elder brother as a potter's apprentice. On his own, he began a series of experiments, continued for the rest of his life, with new combinations of clay, flint and bone, new firing methods and temperatures, and new glazes. Smallpox cost him a leg, but that gave him all the more time to meditate...
...attributed his financial success to the fact that he had never been able to hear what a businessman said, and had consequently always demanded exact, written contracts. He even liked to insist poetry, with World War II; and very few professionals succeeded. One who has succeeded is Randall Jarrell, a highly skilled technical sergeant in poetry before he became a sergeant in the Army Air Forces...
...labor he first opposed the minimum wage and hour law because he thought it would hurt the little businessman, then supported it. He is against Big Labor and labor monopolies; against the secondary boycott, the closed shop, industry-wide bargaining. Nevertheless, it was he who first stood up and fought Harry Truman's proposal to draft striker's into the Army. His main objective in the Taft-Hartley Act was to restore the legal balance between labor and management...
...Paul Hoffman, now nominated as the boss of ECA, called another press conference. It was a different Hoffman who confronted nearly 100 newsmen, photographers and newsreel men in the Statler Hotel's Congressional Room. His answers were prompt and candid. He was supposed to be a hard-boiled businessman, said a reporter. Would he be hard-boiled with Europe? "The money we put up for European recovery can only stimulate Europe's economy," he said. "It cannot create...