Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...national political contention, Kentuckians are paying much more attention to the presidential race than to their own drab Senate campaign between Incumbent John Sherman Cooper and former Governor Keen Johnson. Able Republican Cooper, onetime U.S. Ambassador to India, is probably more liberal than his challenger. Johnson, a prominent businessman (vice president of Reynolds Metals), is locally famed for his frugality: as Governor (1939-43), he ran a tight treasury, spent less than the legislature allotted, liquidated the state debt and ran up a surplus of $10 million. Cooper is ahead...
Businessmen in Government: Because the big businessman has succeeded in his own field, he has the illusion that he knows all the answers when appointed to a job in the Defense Department. "He rarely does." Civil Defense: "The concept of mass evacuation of high-density population centers and the burial of our citizenry in deep shelters would negate any kind of positive reaction to attack. It would convert our people into a horde of rabbits scurrying for warrens where they would cower helplessly while waiting the coming of a conqueror...
...many a U.S. businessman caught in a profit squeeze this year, the nation's banks are a source of envy as well as credit. Aided by the highest money rates in 30 years, the biggest banks last week checked in with record nine months' earnings reports, posting increases of from 5% to 27% over 1939's three quarters...
...rules requiring executives to report the slightest outside involvement. Litton Industries requires its key executives to report their outside interests in writing yearly. Since the Chrysler furor broke, hundreds of companies have sent probing questionnaires to executives . and directors, are quietly investigating their purchasing and marketing practices. One Chicago businessman has private detectives make periodic checks on some 200 executives: "If I hear of one driving a Cadillac and I know his salary won't permit it, I have him checked." But if an executive is doing a crack job, there are complications. "I've got a couple...
Jack Lemmon might pass for a businessman, except that he moves too quickly and talks too volubly. He has close-cropped dark hair and large expressive eyes which grow increasingly intense as he warms to a particular subject. "Almost everybody I know is crazy about this guy," said the producer of a rival play, sitting in on the interview. "Success hasn't changed him a bit, not a bit. Look at him. He doesn't even know how good he is. No use asking him what makes him funny. He won't tell...