Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From this aggressive faith in the rewards of enterprise, hardheaded Newsboy Gannett (accent on the nett) never wavered. It led him, frustratingly, into politics, notably as the highly unsuccessful "businessman's candidate" for the Republican presidential nomination in 1940, into propaganda as angel and pamphleteer for the National Committee to Uphold Constitutional Government and sundry other ultraconservative pressure groups. Through industry and acumen, round-faced, open-handed Frank Gannett also built one of the nation's biggest and most profitable newspaper empires. When he died last week in Rochester at 81, long-ailing Frank Gannett not only owned...
...selecting its new president, the N.A.M. turned away from the relatively small businessman who has often been its choice, instead voted in Milton C. Lightner, 67, president of Singer Manufacturing Co., world's biggest sewing-machine maker. Basing his maiden speech on a new N.A.M. oath in which he vowed to "earnestly seek to promote a healthy economy," Lightner warned the delegates that "to be militarily strong, to give proper aid to our allies, to assist those who need our help, we must have a strong economy here at home," promised to fight the growth of central government. Nervously...
Married. Archduchess Maria Ileana of Habsburg, 23, Vassar-exposed, blonde daughter of exiled Princess Ileana (I Live Again) of Rumania; and Austrian Landowner-Businessman Count Jaroslav Kottulinsky, 39 ; in Vienna...
...remark that "To have great poets, there must be great audiences, too," Knopf suggests that a really great audience would pay its own way. He grumbles that "People who wouldn't dream of borrowing any other purchasable object feel no compunction about borrowing a book." But successful Businessman Knopf really is not much displeased with his customers' buying or reading habits: "By and large," he concludes, "the taste of the reading public is better than that of us who cater...
Merchants who are participating in the advertising campaign reported heavy response to the ticket booklet idea. One local businessman commented that the reaction was "perhaps more than we want," but did not know who had contacted his firm. "We just signed something," he said. "It was all very sloppy...