Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there some discrepancies crept into the account. A few years ago the Methodist stewards had to remove Rose as church treasurer for the unbankerlike reason that his accounts were too careless ly handled. He was careless in other ways, too. Many was the time he would put through a businessman's check even when the account was overdrawn, then phone and say: "Pay me when you get it." Faced with such freehanded competition, one Ellenville finance company folded up and left town...
Meyer Liben's two short stories make elaborate and fantastical developments on the petty deceits of big business. I think Solomon's Wisdom is better, if only because it shows more completely how lost a businessman can get in the midst of his own designs and the "apparently sympathetic attention" he gives to his associates. Paul Goodman's Bathers at Westover Pond less successfully describes the frightful misunderstandings of a married couple. The story takes the form of a series of seperate, mistaken images which the two thrust upon each other. Though these psychological forays are real enough by themselves...
...they could find in any World Almanac, sometimes even in a phone book." "Some of our teachers," says Executive Director Sherman Voorhees of the Pittsburgh chamber, "are delinquent." Instead of learning how to use the encyclopedia, "children are being taught the easy way out." Adds a Pittsburgh businessman: "If teachers insist that their students bother companies for information, why don't they have the courtesy to see that they do it right? If they'd tell the children how to write proper letters, we'd be happy...
When the 3,500 delegates to the 61st Congress of the National Association of Manufacturers met in Manhattan last week, their avowed theme was the "new dimensions" beckoning the modern businessman. But most of the N.A.M.'s attention was devoted to such perennial targets as union activity ("encroachment on individual rights") and big government ("The termites of welfare statism eat out the foundations of our society"). When it came to exploring the new dimensions, most of the talent was imported...
...dozens of movies every year. The new era features independent production in which each movie gets autonomous handling even when it is done within the framework of a big studio. The man most likely to succeed Schary: Ben Thau, a top M-G-M executive known as a tough businessman...