Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...period of national mourning has been proclaimed by President Johnson. "His steadfast leadership served us undaunted through good times and bad--as businessman, provider for the poor and hungry, president, and elder statesman," Johnson said...
Tennessee: In the only state with two Senate races, a couple of staunch Goldwater Republicans who have never won an election are challenging two veteran Democratic officeholders. Two-term Democrat Albert Gore, 57, is favored over Memphis Businessman Dan H. Kuykendall, 40. But Representative Ross Bass, 46, running to fill the last two years of the late Estes Kefauver's term, may have rougher sledding against Knoxville Attorney Howard Baker Jr., 39, who is Everett Dirksen's son-in-law. Still, the pro-Democratic Negro vote and displeasure over Goldwater's stand on TVA are expected...
...them whenever possible, the Americans brought water down the side of a mountain from a spring, cleaned it out, laid plastic pipe and built a catch basin. The equipment, which cost a total of $500, was paid for by the Americans, who were later reimbursed by a St. Louis businessman, Jack Larner, who heard of their activities...
Heckling Colonel. The top Democrat in Germany, Businessman John Ryan, last week invaded Munich's annual Oktoberfest and, surrounded by eight U.S. students brandishing Johnson's picture, delivered a rousing get-out-the-vote speech in front of a tent advertising Löwenbräu beer. He was repeatedly interrupted by a Goldwater heckler in the front row who, Ryan snorts, "must have been a colonel." The Johnson organization in Britain is the largest in Europe, and, with such guest speakers as Actors Anthony Quinn and Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Comedian Victor Borge and Novelist Eugene Burdick...
...Washington the U.S. Tax Court made it plain that if a retired businessman wants to turn his longtime hobby into work and use it as a tax deduction, he had better make sure it is a genuine income-producing endeavor. Retired General Motors Executive Martin C. McGowan owes $19,864 in taxes for 1957-59, said the court, because in those years he deducted more than $40,000 for cameras, film and travel costs on two African safaris and trips to India, the Far East and Alaska. McGowan, who earned $53,819 in his last full year (1956) with...