Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cartels slow down the war effort, was soft-pedaled. And the Department readily admitted that the case would not be tried for a year or two, well after the war will presumably be over. Only in the light of postwar trade did the suit make sense. Many a U.S. businessman, notably U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Eric Johnston (TIME, Nov. i), has told the British that the U.S. does not like cartels, now or in the postwar world. The suit was the Justice Department's way of driving this point home...
Blue-eyed, athletic, Minneapolis-born Bob Gaylord looks much younger than his 55 years, has the small businessman's visceral belief in competition. With 900 employes, twice his peacetime average, his simple, ungrammatical attitude toward Big Business is that "the further management gets from the job the easier it is to lick them." His company has had a profit-sharing deal with its employes since 1919, has never had a work stoppage, and has never been organized by C.I.O. or A.F. of L. (its open-shop independent union: the Industrial Employes Association). And although he admitted to being...
...Next Ring. For the most part, Charley Wilson's passionate outburst dropped into an almost bottomless pit of editorial unconcern. But his words, coming from an impeccably Big Businessman, did not fall on deaf ears in the Waldorf's pink and gold Grand Ballroom-which contained at the time the very ears for which they were presumably intended...
...second open letter to the New Republic, Miller reported that his appeal had brought unorthodox seals of approval plus clothes, paints, brushes and money in sums up to $100 from Midwestern women, "a little businessman," a WAC, soldiers, a 15-year-old boy and other admirers. He repeated his earlier refusal to take any regular job. "Why don't I do as other men, other writers? . . . Because I am different, for one thing. . . . This may seem like quite a tirade . . . yet if tomorrow, by a decision of the Supreme Court, [a] half-dozen terrifying words were restored to currency...
Helen Walsh was pretty, sensitive and warmhearted, and her sister Lydia, seven years older, was watchful, forthright and kind. Hackettston, Conn., where they lived with 9,174 other people much like themselves, was a quiet, ordinary, clean and well-kept town. George Peterson, who married Helen, was a solid businessman who flushed uncomfortably when he admitted his philosophy of life: "It's worth something just to hear the machines going till 5 o'clock again...