Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Down Taxes. Jimmy Byrnes, praising the Baruch-Hancock report, promised U.S. industry that as much of it as possible would be made effective by Presidential order, pending Congressional action. But on the question of taxes, which many a U.S. businessman considers the No. 1 postwar problem, Jimmy Byrnes was vague...
Into his place stepped a hardheaded Scotsman, 65-year-old Thomas Sivewright Catto, First Baron Catto of Cairncatto,* a British businessman of worldwide experience, who during the last three years has been joint advisor, with John Maynard Keynes, now First Baron Keynes of Tilton, to his Majesty's Treasury in Whitehall...
Until last September, General Browning handled contract cancellation, along with his job of fly-specking every Army contract to make certain the U.S. got its money's worth. But General Browning, like many another top businessman, is in Washington only for the duration. So Colonel Hauseman was called from Philadelphia to take over. Now he puts in an eleven-hour day in his Pentagon Building office, smoothly settles canceled contracts at the rate of $1,000,000,000 monthly...
Seven Deadly Sins. To ward off the public beating now beginning to come labor's way, Businessman Johnston proposed that labor and management "hit the sawdust trail together." Both groups, he declared, are guilty of "seven deadly sins": monopolistic practices to crush competitors; autocratic leadership; failure to make proper financial accounting to members, employes and the public; too many strikes, which withhold labor and new inventions from production; violence on the picket line, sometimes incited by management's hired thugs. The worst economic sin, said Johnston, is restraints on production by "featherbedding" and "slow-downing" designed to make...
Free Enterpriser. The Boston speech was only one of twelve that busy Eric Johnston made last week. Both the speech and the week were typical. The speech was an almost electrically fresh restatement of old but much neglected truths. Its impact derived from its clarity, frankness and vigor; from Businessman Johnston's position as head of the traditionally hidebound Chamber, and from his steadily growing personal prestige. Since his election to the Chamber presidency in 1942, he has hopped over the U.S. city by city, to South America, to England, talking constantly at and with businessmen, labor leaders...