Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...relaxed, eight-year regime of Herbert Y. ("Thanks a million") Cartwright was overthrown by George Roy Clough, a terrible-tempered businessman (radio and TV), who promised to maintain the city in a state of honest sin-to let the gambling and prostitution go merrily unchecked, but to cut out the protection payoffs. Clough's program worked well enough to win him re-election in 1957, but then things began to go sour...
...Businessman Governor Luther Hodges made the wage floor a key part of his legislative program two years ago, got it to floor debate after ten years of death-by-committee. This year, backed by a determined band of freshman legislators, Hodges insisted on the minimum wage as necessary paving on the state's road into the future. Said he: "Employers can afford it, employees deserve it, and the state's economic progress demands...
...Poet Archibald MacLeish has retried Job in the guise of a modern American businessman. A little thin in eloquence and logic, but richly exciting theater...
...says Percy, to serve society. While running Bell & Howell, the world's biggest producer of motion-picture equipment (1958 sales: $59 million), cleft-chinned Chuck Percy has found plenty of time to serve society. He sits on the board of the University of Chicago ("I am a better businessman for getting my head up in the clouds with the academic people") and is the chairman of the Ford Foundation's Fund for Adult Education ("If all of us in industry learned better the world in which we live, we'd all be better individuals...
...guise of a wealthy modern businessman. Though Archibald MacLeish's version lacks Biblical richness of speech and rigor of logic, it brings excitement to the theater...