Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they faced some sharp heckling at rallies. "You're just a playboy playing at politics," sneered a pretty young woman when Businessman Nguyen Dinh Quat rose to speak. An old farmer at a Delta rally challenged Dai Viet Party Leader Ha Thuc Ky: "We hear you have two big villas and an American limousine." The other Ky, Premier and vice-presidential candidate on the government ticket with Chief of State Nguyen Van Thieu, ventured into hostile Hue, where he had put down a simmering, Buddhist-led revolt last year...
...much of the time and attention of the sections in TIME that we, in office lingo, call "Back of the Book." The people involved in these stories are not necessarily well known. Take, for example, THE LAW'S chilling story about one Clarence Jackson, who was a successful businessman in Phoenix, worth perhaps a quarter of a million dollars, until luck, lawyers and the law, in a bizarre series of circumstances, took away everything he had, including his wife...
...that British manufacturers are unfamiliar with U.S. sizes and forget that its warmer climate generally calls for light er fabrics. Another is that they do not understand the quantities in which the U.S. buys. "When the U.S. wants fish hooks," an American buyer recently told a visiting British businessman, "she wants them in millions." To provide the millions-and to help their nation improve its trade balance-a group of Britons has organized a marketing company called Lion & Unicorn, Ltd. after the royal coat of arms...
Died. Walter J. Cummings, 88, key man in the Depression's bank holiday, a Chicago banker and businessman who in March 1933 took charge of screening 17,000 banks shut down by presidential order, within a week reopened 12,000 of them, eventually either closed or merged 5,000 others, meanwhile organizing the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to rebuild public confidence in the nation's banking system; of arteriosclerosis; in Chicago...
Twelve years ago, Clarence Jackson was a prospering Phoenix, Ariz., businessman. He owned an entire city block with only a small mortgage remaining. On the block stood a bar and a large supermarket, which he and his wife operated. There were also a few stores, houses and a gas station, which he rented out. Jackson figured the whole package was worth at least $250,000, and there was some still-vacant land on which he had just decided to build a motel. Things were looking good. In his wildest nightmares, Jackson could not have guessed what luck, lawyers...