Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little from this new assault. Surely, too, our children, having wrestled for one and a half hours with compound fractions or Latin verbs on top of a long day's schooling, are entitled to their 15 minutes' reward. Who grudges the bishop his detective novel or the businessman his nightly half-hour on the Times crossword? . . . Heaven postpone the day when our priggish offspring forsake such unsophisticated thrills for the sober contemplation of their own importance in the future of planned economy...
There are at least three versions of what happened when the U.S. Navy's LC-3 1090 nosed into the Russian-held "free port" last week to bring official dispatches to U.S. Consul General Harry Merrell Benninghoff. Aboard the unarmed naval vessel were a U.S. businessman and two U.S. correspondents, LIFE'S Mark
Kauffman, and Scripps-Howard's William H. Newton. The first report came from Newton. His story: while her captain negotiated to land the businessman, the LC-3 1090 overstayed its 48-hour permit by two hours. Thereupon the Russians gave Commander Edgar Yates, senior naval officer aboard, an ultimatum: "Leave Dairen in 20 minutes or we won't be responsible for the consequences." The LC-3 1090 left...
...this amusing, serio-comic study, Author Hodgins, one of FORTUNE'S editors, puts the Blandings over just about all the jumps that confront the well-set businessman and his wife in their expensive search for the simple life...
...absent newsmen and politicos had gathered elsewhere, in Room 331 of the Morrison Hotel. There smart, ulcer-ridden little Jake Arvey, the new boss of the old Kelly machine, was introducing the Democrats' candidate to succeed Ed Kelly as mayor: a husky businessman, Martin Kennelly...