Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Business." But it is a natural enough view for his Secretary of the Treasury, W. (for Werner) Michael Blumenthal, who, after a rocky beginning in his post, has in the past few months gained clear pre-eminence among the President's economic aides. Blumenthal is a former Big Businessman himself?he was chairman of Bendix Corp. before he came to Washington?and, though he has never been fully accepted by corporate leaders as one of their own, he knows how his former colleagues in the executive suite think...
...Blumenthal who successfully promoted a fellow businessman, Textron Chairman G. William Miller, to become chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. It was Blumenthal, more than anyone else, who persuaded Carter that to try to push a sweeping tax reform program through this session of Congress would only frighten businessmen. It was Blumenthal, too, who decided in December that the time had come to intervene in money markets to halt the disorderly rout of the dollar, and who won Carter's approval to start the program while the President was traveling overseas...
...gone soft. A friend calls him "the velvet hammer," and Director Robert Aldrich says: "Behind that false humor arid false modesty is a bright man who's paid his dues. People think he's Charley Charm, but that's only part of it. Burt is a strongwilled, self-centered businessman; he does what serves Burt, and he should...
...businessman from Brittany...
...NATO and bolster Communist parties in other nations, particularly Italy and Spain. More important, they dread implementation of the Common Program of the Left, a 1972 plan for sweeping political and economic changes in France, including nationalizations of hundreds of companies. "Those nationalizations would destroy our economy," a conservative businessman in Brittany explained last week. "If the left arrives in power, I might take my money and leave the country...