Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Suspicious of "professors" in Government jobs, Congress laid down the law (TIME, June 28): hereafter, all OPA price fixers must have had actual business experience. OPA complied last week. A businessman stepped up and a professor stepped down. The big shift...
...Short, affable Businessman James F. Brownlee took over as deputy administrator in charge of price control. Able Businessman Brownlee (American Sugar Refining, General Foods, Frankfort Distilleries) has receding brown hair, might easily pass for a professor. Said he: "The [professors] I've met around here are nice guys and pretty damned smart...
...price control, became an OPA economic adviser. Having helped put OPA together in its early days, he will remain "if it seems the most useful way to serve the war effort." Able Professor Wallace (on leave from Williams College) has receding brown hair, might easily pass for a businessman. Said he: "I'm glad to see the place get a new lease on life...
...debate with Britain's razor-tongued Socialist-Economist Harold Laski. Moderator on last week's University of Chicago Round Table radio program beamed from London was his traveling companion, the University's hustling Vice President William Benton, who is also vice chairman of the liberal-businessman U.S. Committee for Economic Development...
Unwrapping a package mailed to them last week, Cleveland OPA officials found a cooked pork chop inside. With it was a letter from an indignant Buffalo businessman. He had ordered a chop in a restaurant, and had been served the minuscule chunk enclosed, which weighed less than two ounces. OPA officials got busy on the case, pausing only to issue a hasty plea to irate citizens: just tell us about it, never mind sending the evidence...