Word: businessman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...people are calling a labor situation. A few months ago we were panicky about it, today we are still afraid of it. Professor Slichter of the faculty tells us that we are becoming a laboristic society, where the critical power-control of job giving lies not with the capitalist businessman, but with the labor leader. Senator Joe Ball tells the press that labor threatens to become a "monopoly" and a "cartel." These are trick words, part of an attempt to transfer the public fear of the monopolistic businessman to the Pegler portrait of the "all-powerful" labor leader...
...deliberate selfishness that results in the unreasonable attempts of business to squeeze the consumer in a time of prosperity. The businessman, like the worker, knows that we live in a pendulum economy, where the inevitability of the next depression is as sure as the swing of the brass rod in the grandfather's clock. The businessman's defense is to make money in the sunshine, enough at least to oil his idle machinery in the dead days at the bottom of the cycle. The result is the increasing trend toward consolidation and away from the dispersion of ownership that, theoretically...
...Jennie Tourel is the daughter of a traveling Russian businessman and "was born in Montreal by accident." She lived most of her life in Paris. At first, studying singing, she couldn't agree with a voice teacher who "put me in the mouth some kind of apparatus to teach me voice production." Then she found a coach who told her to sing as if she were reciting a poem, and that solved phrasing...
...novels. Sentimentality is itself a confusion, a failure to discriminate in feeling; and Tarkington even at his best failed in that way. Nothing in Alice Adams is more pathetic than the author's own willingness to let the Adams family be salvaged by a golden-hearted businessman and Alice herself by gallant enrollment in a business college. One such piece of symbolism might pass, but not both...
Stopping off to warm his ego in a hero-worshiping small town, he seduces the local belle (Ann Blyth), hornswoggles a keen judge of character, her father (John Litel), and cleans every small businessman along Main Street in a succession of crap games. In an expansive moment he also helps his slow-moving brother (William Gargan) to swing an important business deal; a little later he almost persuades his brother's wife (Ruth Warrick) to skip town with him. He has, it seems, just one good streak: his young nephew's fatuous, gee-whillikers devotion inspires...