Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Uncle Joe never spared himself either. Son of a Yonkers doctor-businessman, he had been an underweight (140-lb.) quarterback at West Point ('04), returned to the Academy after a tour in the Philippines to coach the cadets in French and Spanish. On the Western Front in 1918 Major Stilwell saw plenty of action as a G-2 staff officer. He scoffed at the Distinguished Service Medal he received, said that medals were for the combat infantrymen...
...hierarchy of A.A. are President Edward A. Hayes, lawyer, American Legion big shot and onetime National Commander, unsuccessful candidate for the Illinois governorship in 1940; Treasurer W. Homer Hartz, Chicago businessman and former president of the Illinois Manufacturers' Association...
...mellow atmosphere of the Algonquin, where he promptly established himself in a suite, hefty Ben Bodne, 43, brought a new and different tone. As a small businessman in Charleston, S.C., and onetime head of a firm dealing in home bottling supplies, he had had a run-in with federal authorities during Prohibition. Result: a $25 fine for violating the dry law. Next Bodne tried the coal business, then he started wholesaling oil. He cut no fancy figure; in Charleston he was regarded as very small potatoes. But Bodne hinted that he had made a killing in war contracts, claimed that...
Faced with these cold facts, money-losing corporations, which had kept payrolls fat in hopes that peak production would pull them out of the red, now began to think about trimming. After the stockmarket crash, Wall Streeters had predicted that many a businessman would start using the ugly word "retrenchment" instead of expansion. Last week, in one of the country's key industries, at least, it looked as if the retrenchment had started...
Married. Peggy Wood, 52, versatile, Brooklyn-born actress (Old Acquaintance, Blithe Spirit); and William Henry Walling, 51, Manhattan socialite-businessman; she for the second time, he for the third; in Stamford, Conn...