Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mayor of West Newton. He tried for the Senate in 1936, was nosed out for the nomination by Cabot Lodge. He fathered six children, built up a solid fortune as president of Reed & Barton (silverware) and board chairman of United-Carr Fastener Corp. (metal fasteners, buckles, clips). An able businessman in politics, he put the Massachusetts G.O.P. on a sound financial basis, is now treasurer of the G.O.P. National Committee...
...many a U.S. corporation used patents to restrain trade, i.e., by mass research to make minor patentable improvements, thereby extending original patents far beyond their 17-year limits. Before Arnold could bring his heavy guns to bear, he was upped to the U.S. Court of Appeals. Many a U.S. businessman relaxed. But from his new vantage point, Justice Arnold last week shook them with another howitzer blast...
...effect of such training was predictable. "They did everything they could," he says, "to make me an artist, but I didn't want to be an artist. I wanted to be a good businessman like my father." He was accordingly delighted when, at 16, he became manager of the Deauville branch of Mary's Paris cosmetics firm. When the U.S. entered World War I he joined the Air Corps, served in Tennessee and Florida till the Armistice...
...businessman's right to be protected from monopoly and unfair competition...
...series of 19 McClure's articles; they brought in a gusher of public resentment that flowed all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which did the final busting in 1911. Her rose-tinted 1925 biography of U.S. Judge Elbert H. Gary foreshadowed her discovery of the ideal businessman in 1932's Owen D. Young...