Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Chicago's voters gave their answer to this political naivete. In the biggest turnout in a Chicago city election, they rejected the G.O.P.'s Russell W. Root-a political nobody-and elected the Democrats' businessman candidate, Martin H. Kennelly, by a 273,354 majority. Kennelly's margin had been exceeded only once before in the city's history...
...Businessman Griffis prepared to depart, another U.S. businessman quit the Foreign Service. Richard C. Patterson Jr., onetime vice chairman of the board of RKO, resigned the ambassadorship to the Russian-dominated government of Yugoslavia, where he had been as frustrated as Lane was in Poland. Private interests required his attention, said Patterson. As his successor, Harry Truman picked a State Department careerist: 52-year-old Cavendish Welles Cannon, whose large, pale, triangular face has been appearing in the trouble spots of southern Europe for 20 years, most recently in Lisbon, where he was First Secretary and Consul...
Before the war, Bob Lovett was a Wall Street businessman (Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.) and director of several banks, railroads and insurance companies. No stranger to Europe, he used to spend an average of two months a year there on business. When he left Washington and the War Department in December 1945, he returned to Wall Street. This week he was vacationing in Hobe Sound...
...chief reason was the Democratic candidate. Martin H. Kennelly (rhymes with uh-nelly) was something new in Chicago politics. A businessman and civic leader, he had fought the Kelly-Nash machine in 1936 and 1939. This year he had consented to run only on condition that he would have no interference from Jake Arvey's Democratic machine...
...Ottawa with a plan for Gouzenko. He explained that he knew "seven or eight other men" who would be willing to contribute a fund to buy a Dominion Government annuity for Gouzenko. Told that $24,000 would buy an annuity paying him $100 a month for life, the businessman said:"Never mind the other fellows, I'll do the whole thing myself. Let's let Russia and the Communists know that we're at least grateful enough to Gouzenko not to let him starve...