Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...offered something for everybody -more jobs, more buying power, more production. For the businessman, there would be new markets equal to the combined gross national products of Canada and Australia, and more "profits in his cash register" as well. For the taxpayer, there would be enough extra money "to pay the installments on a car, or dishwasher, or some other necessary expense."* The bill would ease unemployment, take the sting out of automation, help eliminate juvenile delinquency and racial injustice and provide "insurance against recession...
Early Woman. "I absolutely had no childhood," she explains. "I was a woman at six." What she means is that her mother, the wife of a Los Angeles businessman, wanted Jill to be an actress, and by the time Jill was six, she was a pro. She performed regularly in radio soap operas, modeled children's fashions, went to the Hollywood Professional School, and at 14 entered U.C.L.A. She quit two years later when Universal signed her to a contract...
...Lasky's dislike for the President appears almost as adoration compared to how he feels about the President's father. He depicts Joseph P. Kennedy as anti-Semitic and pro-Nazi, as a fearful, cringing figure during the London blitz, and as perhaps the most ruthless, malign businessman in U.S. history. To Lasky it was Joe's dough alone that made Jack President and Bobby the nation's second most powerful man. And the father did it all to avenge an ethnic insult. "Having suffered all the slights and indignities Brahmin Boston could contrive...
...Corpse in the Parlor. With funerals growing smaller, the undertakers have done what any good businessman would do-made up for it somewhere else. The result has been the slumber room and its attendant abuses...
Like a Factory. But eight years after the partnership began, Bill Pereira abruptly broke it up. Given the differences between the two, it is surprising that the association lasted as long as it did. Though trained as an architect, Luckman was a slick businessman with a flair for supersalesmanship; to Pereira, on the other hand, architecture was simply a profession. "The businessman who hires us," he once said, "doesn't need another businessman to do the work?he needs an architect...