Word: businessman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Little but Loud. The background of Congress' action was enough to make World Businessman Clayton give up in despair. Wool-growing is not a vital U.S. industry. It is a small, uneconomic business which assays at less than 1/1000 of the national income. But it has powerful friends-Congressmen and Senators from 23 wool-growing states, who can bleat as loudly as storm-whipped rams while trading support of bills to protect Southern peanut-growers for bills to protect Western sheep-raisers...
Jolson is grey-haired now, and looks more like a double-breasted businessman than the skinny, blackface comedian that the U.S. remembers. The Jolson Story was obviously having a happy ending. Said Old Hoofer Jolson (whose fourth wife is 24): "If there weren't such a thing as years nobody would think I'm old. I may not be alive in ten seconds, but I feel better than I have in 20 years...
Said one Turkish editor: "We know that Truman and Vandenberg are battling for us and humanity. . . . But we must achieve democracy in our own way." Said a businessman: "Your dollars won't make us knuckle down any more than Russian threats." An aging Turkish intellectual summed up the situation confronting the U.S.'s new foreign policy: "It is difficult to give gracefully, and even more difficult to receive gracefully...
...Budapest, a businessman whose factory is being run as a joint Soviet-Hungarian enterprise rallied from his end-of-an-era sorrow to observe, with a peculiarly Budapestian wistfulness: "He would have made a great partner...
Magritte is 48, married, and has a pet Pomeranian, "Jacacki." He is a dapper dresser, paints on a time-clock daily schedule in a corner of his small, commonplace living room. Magritte considers Dali an excellent businessman ("he is rich") but has intense scorn for fellow Belgian surrealist Paul Delvaux, who paints luscious nudes picking roses in classic landscapes, with now & then a streetcar lurking about in the background (TIME, Dec. 30). Painter Delvaux, Magritte thinks, "has exploited surrealism as he would have exploited pork-butchery...