Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many a U.S. businessman has wished that he was big enough to get in to see Elisha Walker in his official habitat: the austere offices of Wall Street's famed international banking firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., of which he is senior partner. Stiff-starched Banker Walker is not an easy...
Every dispossessed landowner, disgruntled businessman and refugee from the Russian zone, with tales of war plants in full operation, is sure of eager listeners at Sibert's headquarters. And Soviet Counterintelligence Chief General Sidnyev's little army of Communist businessmen and technicians traveling in the U.S. zone looks avidly for the German armies which Russians are sure the democracies are training for war against Russia...
...address an American businessman? Last week British exporters and importers got some sound advice on this subject from Wilfred Hansford Gallienne, back home in Birmingham from his post as consul general in Chicago. In writing to clients in the States, Gallienne advised "preciseness, warmth and moderation." Said...
...great many American businessmen believe and fear that Britain has become entirely Red. Americans are not inclined to believe very much of what is said by statesmen, politicians and diplomats, but they are always ready to believe what a businessman says. If he writes from England, what he says is accepted as straight from the horse's mouth and is believed implicitly...
Even irreconcilable Finnish anti-Communists do not criticize Yrjö and Hertta Leino. Said one big businessman: "If all the Communists were like them, we wouldn't worry so much. The trouble is that when the right time comes they'll probably be replaced by the real radicals...