Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lyndon Johnson had something for everybody-rich and poor, old and young, male and female, union leader and businessman, American and foreigner, Northerner and Southerner, student and sharecropper, cow milker and dog lover...
...Four men ran-each trying to sound more devoted to Goldwater than the others. Houston Oilman George Bush, 40, the son of former Connecticut Senator Prescott Bush, finished first with 62,574 votes, must vie in a June 6 runoff against Democrat-turned-Republican Jack Cox, 42, a Houston businessman, who got 46% of the 1962 gubernatorial vote against Democrat John Connally. This time...
...landlocked little nation's undisputed Numero Uno. But no swelling bands or fancy parades will mark the anniversary. Stroessner may hoist a cup of fiery cana, the local rum, with a few army cronies- nothing more. At 51, he looks and acts more like a mild-mannered businessman than the most durable of Latin military dictators. Today the important thing for Stroessner is not the tormented past, and his own part in it, but the progress he has begun to make in bringing to 1,800,000 Paraguayans a measure of peace and stability...
...businessman puts it another way. "This place is in no sense the old-style jack-booted dictatorship. I've worked in Venezuela during the time of Perez Jimenez, in the Dominican Republic under Trujillo, in Argentina under Peron. There is no atmosphere of tension and fear. The idea is order, to build something." That is how Stroessner sees himself-as Paraguay's builder. His term expires in 1968, and constitutionally he is barred from running again. But in Stroessner's Paraguay, the builder can always reconstruct a constitution...
...wage rises he favors-for the men and women in the middle and upper reaches of Government-he took his case straight to the businessmen. He urged the Chamber of Commerce to support a federal pay raise bill-and put the request, as usual, in terms that any businessman could understand. "The middle level positions," said Johnson, "pay less than half the comparable scales of business and industry." Then he drove the point home by announcing that "one of the great economic advisers"-Walter Heller-was planning to quit the Government because his fixed salary ($20,500) could not properly...