Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rough, roistering city, where the oldest and newest forces in the South seethed and mingled. Cotton still came to Memphis levees on high-stacked steamboats, but many a planter had moved to town to be a businessman. Memphis nights were noisy with roistering male voices and the jangle of sporting-house pianos. Gunmen, loggers, sunburned planters, rivermen from all the channels between St. Louis and New Orleans fought, gambled, drank and consorted with brigades of painted Memphis whores...
When Conservatives nominated him for President last March, Millionaire Businessman Mariano Ospina Perez moved from his Norman castle in Bogota to a modest, two-story bungalow near by. Last week he prepared to move again. His address after Aug. 7:Palacio Presidencial. Elected when two candidates split the Liberal vote,* Ospina Perez would be Colombia's first Conservative President in 16 years...
...though they were blocked marks. He could not deny that he had gambled on Hitler's success (once Schacht had said that with Hitler he was either "walking to a monument or a scaffold"). Now Schacht took the line that, as a good Christian and as a good businessman, he had always opposed war and wasteful cruelties. "Hitler deceived the world, Germany and me. . . . I would have killed Hitler personally if given the chance...
Last week he "reluctantly" resigned from Hartford's (Episcopalian) Trinity College faculty. Then Trinity's best-known, most-respected professor, now 61, put the finger of blame on handsome young (35) Businessman-President George Keith Funston, one of his ex-students. Shepard charged Funston with refusing to grant him a year's leave for what he described as "acute mental fatigue." Said he: "I am left with these alternatives: to submit to a ruling [reflecting] lack of confidence in my veracity . . . OT to resign...
Robert Wood Johnson is a big businessman who rarely talks like one. When he does talk, the board chairman of Johnson & Johnson (surgical dressings) tells businessmen what they don't like to hear...