Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Business Manager of the delayed book, reported that about $1400 is on hand, and that the largest single item outside of subscriptions of this total came from direct mail appeals to the parents of the class members. Frederic W. Richmond, Law School student whom Ryan termed "an expert businessman" secured a $600 response to his mimeographed form letter from which he received $125 as a commission...
Married. Marjorie Vattendahl Bong, 22, comely widow of U.S. Ace of Aces (40 kills) Major Richard I. Bong; and James H. Baird, 22, youthful Los Angeles businessman; she for the second time, he for the first; in Hollywood...
From the Frying Pan. If he was confused by such talk, the average businessman could hardly hope to get his bearings from the actual facts. After a drop to new lows for the year, the stock market last week sharply reversed itself. Stocks shot up 2 to 7 points in one of the biggest one-day rallies in years. Cotton too had steadied (see below). And U.S. Steel's third-quarter profits proved to be even greater than the great expectations. Its whopping $33,329,353 topped all other third-quarter earnings since...
Sumner T. Pike, 55-year-qld businessman and broker, who ran away from his Maine home, went to sea, sold oil industry equipment in Texas, joined Boston's Stone & Webster, later Wall Street's Case, Pomeroy & Co., served as a Republican member of the Securities and Exchange Commission. He resigned from SEC last March with a note to Harry Truman: "I am getting stale...
...tariff bills since 1897. His masterpiece was the Smoot-Hawley bill of 1930, which precipitated an economic world war and was one underlying cause of World War II. To some Joe Grundy was an ogre. To his friends, the white-haired, thee-saying Quaker was just an old-fashioned businessman. The machine served Grundy...