Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John L. had a terrible weapon and no qualms about using it. He had the means of freezing up U.S. industry, the means of hurting the U.S. abroad. He had allies as well as power. Many a businessman, desperate for coal, was for peace at almost any price. Labor backed him, from the simple instinct of self-preservation...
Chileans know Wachholtz as a tight-lipped businessman who made an early fortune in the building industry, conceived the idea of Chile's RFC-like Development Corp. and served as its first president, helped found Chile's largest oil company. He now runs a model farm in the province of O'Higgins, south of Santiago...
...typical work week for a TIME bureau head-beyond satisfying TIME'S editorial queries-would be likely to include visits from such assorted personages as i) a small businessman seeking publicity for a new type of plumbing joint he had invented, 2) a Government investigator inquiring into the political complexion of the Kansas City Star, 3) a writer looking for special material for his novel, 4) a paste salesman wanting desk space and a telephone, 5) the owner of a coal mine in Alberta on the lookout for unemployed coal miners; telephone calls from all sorts of people asking...
Last week the President also: businessman, William Chapman Foster of
New York, to succeed Democrat Alfred Schindler, resigned, as Under Secretary
of Commerce.
...Emerson that "defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions," and holds that today's abhorrence of snobbish formalities should not extend to contempt for simple courtesy. He finds promise of improved manners not so much in private homes as in public dealings: 1) in the businessman's realization that courtesy increases dividends; 2) in the wartime effort to make the G.I. respect the forms of citizens of other nations; 3) in the basically polite approach of the Good Neighbor Policy...