Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THEATER (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Maurice Evans plays the chief steward in a Deauville gambling casino, who tries to tutor an American businessman (Cliff Robertson) in the technique of winning at chemin...
...President did not consider "Frank" to be of Cabinet caliber, and last January Johnson selected Drug Executive John T. Connor to replace the retiring Hodges. Said Roosevelt: "I was disappointed in not being picked, but who wouldn't be? I'm objective enough to know that a businessman should fill that office." Connor and Roosevelt got along all right, but the Secretary wanted to have a top deputy of his own choosing. Roosevelt was a bit restless...
...fighting to improve it, they chose exile in Europe, or that domestic exile which is known as "alienation." In the 1930s, after business had bungled the job of running the country, the intellectuals held a large share of power in the New Deal-and then it was the businessman's turn to feel rejected and ridiculed by "the professors in Washington." By 1953, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. announced that "anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman. The intellectual is on the run in American society." In fact, the U.S. intellectual has never been persecuted...
Regarding his obligations to the academic community, Bundy said he had supposed that in public service, "a former businessman was not especially accountable to business circles, a man from labor to the unions, or a professor university people. There is no reason why I should be especially accountable you, even on the uncertain assumption that you are truly representative of the academic community...
...headmaster of Georgia's Riverside Military Academy ("Though Quakers are pacifistic, I am not") when Ithaca summoned him back to New York in 1951, made him president in 1957. When he arrived, Ithaca had no accreditation and many of its students were Cornell flunk-outs who, insists one businessman, stuck around town "to enjoy the drinking life...