Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...every Catholic individual, priest, professional man and woman, society, organization, layman, businessman, write . . . expressing indignation and demand ing that no bombing or other military plan threaten the eternal city of Rome...
Died. Vladimir Nemirovich-Dantchenko, 85, co-founder and director of the Moscow Art Theatre; of a heart attack; in Moscow. The Moscow Art Theatre was the result of an 18-hour conversation in 1897 between Dantchenko, then a dramatic-art teacher, and a businessman named Constantin Stanislavski. It attained world fame with the help of writers like Chekhov and Gorky, hardily adapted itself to the Soviet scene...
...tiny planet with three volcanoes and one rose, the contented prince watched the sunset 44 times in one day, tended his rose (served her breakfast, protected her from drafts). Tormented by the rose's awakened vanity, he departed, visited neighboring planets, talked with a king, businessman, lamplighter, geographer (each revealing his occupational foible), at last descended to earth...
...eight years after it was born, the New York Times had one authentic foreign correspondent and he worked abroad only part of the time. He was Henry Raymond, one of the paper's co-founders (the other: Businessman George Jones). A dispatch that Correspondent Raymond wrote from Italy, an eyewitness account of the Battle of Solferino in the Austrian-Franco-Sardinian war, took 13 days to reach the U.S. by boat. Last week, the Times foreign staff included 34 men and two women† scattered on the globe's continents and seas. They send well over...
...editorial gave Republican leaders plenty to think and talk about last week. G.O.P. tongues also wagged when Bricker and James A. Farley, onetime chairman of the Democratic National Committee, attended a lunch given in their joint honor by a Cincinnati businessman-and were photographed arm around shoulder...