Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were dozens of instances of friendliness: Ray Sato, a 27-year-old Nisei from Hood River, focal point of Oregon racial intolerance, received 30 reassuring letters from former neighbors when he decided to go home. When Bruce McGill, a wealthy Sierra Madre (Calif.) businessman, ran an anti-Japanese newspaper advertisement, he found himself virtually ostracized by other citizens, who promptly ran a second ad, welcoming evacuees...
...means an AAA for every industry telling each man what he shall produce and what price he shall get for it, if it means direct government control over every businessman and worker, then full employment will be at worst a kind of socialistic totalitarianism, at best a benevolent form of complete state paternalism...
...passed up Herbert Hoover, just elected President, because that year was the businessman's year and Walter P. Chrysler was his symbol. When Business crashed in 1929 we passed by Hoover again, skipped over Explorer Byrd and Peace-Pacter Kellogg in favor of Owen D. Young, back from Paris with his plan for settling Europe's troubles under...
...Chungking courtly Businessman Howard Coonley, onetime WPB Conservation Director, is now serving as chief adviser to Dr. Wong. American steel experts are in the field, trying to step up China's tiny steel industry (annual production: 10,000 tons), which operates at less than 20% capacity. Alcohol experts strive to increase the output of the country's main fuel. In Washington Don Nelson's big job was to get more U.S. aid for a great ally's industrial renaissance...
Lindbergh of the Caravels. A successful Florentine businessman, and a famed astronomer and geographer, Vespucci did not become a sailor until he was 45. Then he proved himself a Lindbergh of the caravels, sailing to his destinations with cool calculations and almost without excitement. Where Columbus was visionary, gifted, brilliant and brave, Vespucci was industrious, modest, thorough. Readers of this scholarly new biography may feel that it was one of history's tragedies that Columbus and Vespucci did not sail together. Columbus was the great discoverer, but Vespucci sighted more new territory. He traversed 3,000 miles...