Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...expanding paunch which he overemphasizes by wearing double-breasted waistcoats. His mother is a Dame of the British Empire. His father was a Cabinet minister. After Eton young Lyttelton went to Cambridge. He married Lady Moira Godolphin Osborne, fourth daughter of the tenth Duke of Leeds. As an Empire businessman trained in London's City, Captain Lyttelton fathered the world tin cartel, became managing director of giant British Metal Corp...
...Author Ernest Hemingway, discovered and warned the U.S. about in a Reader's Digest article back in 1940 made news last week. The Army's Caribbean Defense Command arrested 19 Panama Canal Zone employes, nightclub owners and Colon cabaret girls, along with British Honduras' leading businessman: shrewd "Captain" George Gough, so-called "King of Belize" (rhymes with sneeze). All were part of a spy ring which not only informed Nazi submarines of United Nations ship movements, but helped to refuel the subs at little-known keys and hidden shore bases used three centuries ago by Caribbean buccaneers...
...Massachusetts businessman with only three office workers has to let one of them work full time on questionnaires from Washington...
Waller was arrested for murder. A young Virginia lawyer defended him. A jury of ten farmers (all employers of sharecroppers), one businessman and a carpenter listened to the case for two days, took 52 minutes to find him guilty...
...responsible for this change of heart is no New Dealer. He is, in fact, a Republican. He heads two electrical businesses in Spokane and helps direct a dozen other enterprises. He is 45 years old, an ex-Marine captain, looks like the smart up-from-small-beginnings businessman he is. Alert, informal, friendly, Johnston differs from other executives primarily in having a keener sense of public relations, a clearer realization that business cannot talk its way back into public confidence, that the best kind of propaganda is the right kind of action...