Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...subject is ghosts; the treatment is neither scary nor funny--merely heavy-handed. James Mason, as a retired businessman, and his wife, Barbara Mullen, bring their 40 years experience in the drapery business to battle with a frustrated young ghost who haunts their newly-bought country house. Local gossip whispers that an attractive girl was smothered to death there 40 years before by some avaricious caretakers who wanted her inheritance. Mason and Mullen are unimpressed until she begins to whistle in the speaking tubes and bother the help...
Albert Sidney Johnstone of Richmond, Va. had always wanted to be a minister, but illness forced him to give up the idea. Instead, he became a businessman, eventually became personnel officer of Richmond's Federal Reserve Bank. Richmond came to know him as a leader in charities and civic affairs-but this work never completely satisfied...
...boasted Columnist Westbrook Pegler one day last week. Next day, in the New York Journal-American and 249 other papers carrying his column, he retracted a thousand words of unfair comment. As a legal settlement of several multimillion-dollar libel suits, Pegler published a 98-word apology to Delaware Businessman Abram N. Spanel for implying that he was "a Communist or fellow traveler...
...Spanel, board chairman of the International Latex Corp. (baby pants, girdles, pillows), likes to buy space in newspapers to print his own opinions and those of people he admires (e.g., Sumner Welles, Robert M. Hutchins)-and incidentally to plug his company. In March 1945, Pegler took off on Businessman Spanel and his ads, saying one was "a poetic construction well expressing the attitude of some demagogues of the extreme left ... A native of Russia and an admirer of the Soviet system might be pardoned in the error." The Journal-American headlined the column: AMERICAN PAPERS SELL ADVERTISING SPACE...
After thumping the chests and listening to the hearts of nearly 1,000 businessmen, the Benjamin Franklin Clinic of Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia last week told what makes a tired businessman tired. He gets that way because...