Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...local businessman yesterday charged bitterly that recent traffic changes in Brattle Square have increased congestion and caused a "monumental traffic jam" last Saturday...
Cooking Up Sales. Like all the other members of the council, Murphy is first a businessman whose reputation ultimately depends on how he performs as a manager. As boss of the world's biggest soup company, which he joined in 1938 after working for the Nielsen rating service, Murphy has proved his ability. His first job at the Camden, N.J., headquarters was devising new products to cook up more sales. He has stuck to the recipe so well that Campbell's sales and profits have doubled since he became president in 1953, and profits have risen every year...
Shattered Career. As a reward, Kennedy was named ambassador to England in 1938, where he found a kindred spirit in Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, another businessman-turned-politician, and he eagerly seconded Chamberlain's appeasement policies. Believing that all the world's ills could be solved by clever horse trades, Kennedy urged making a deal with Hitler, and he applauded the Munich capitulation. Determined to intervene on the side of Britain, Roosevelt eventually gave up on his pessimistic ambassador, who was so convinced of Nazi victory that he even objected to Americans' enlisting in the British armed...
...Hard Feelings. Many obstacles remain to the full resumption of Dutch-Indonesian trade because, as one Dutch businessman puts it, "You cannot pluck feathers from a frog." Yet the Dutch recognize Indonesia's great trade potential and seem determined to play as large a role in restoring trade as Sukarno will allow. KLM has resumed twice-weekly flights to Djakarta. Djakarta's once large Dutch community, depleted when 200,000 Dutch left Indonesia in 1958, is growing again. Dutch newspapers and candies have reappeared in major Indonesian cities, and Djakarta radio recently played the Dutch national anthem...
...able, experienced politician who would strengthen the colony's ties with the U.S. Chances are that Jagan will win the most votes, but not the 51% majority he needs to form a government. In second place will come Burnham, and third, the United Force Party, led by Portuguese Businessman Peter d'Aguiar. Anti-Jaganites then hope that these two will stitch together a ruling coalition, allowing British Guiana to recover, with Western help. "Jagan," says Burnham, "has antagonized the West as far as assistance is concerned, and failed to get assistance from the East...