Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...debated with Attorney James Otis Jr., who first argued in court in 1761 against the constitutionality of general search warrants known as writs of assistance (John Adams believes that "American independence was then and there born"). At a Masonic lodge, Hancock encountered both Otis and Samuel Adams, an inept businessman but master polemicist and organizer of the Sons of Liberty. These three soon became leaders in the resistance to the Stamp Act. Declared Hancock: "I will not be a slave. I have a right to the liberties and privileges of the English Constitution...
Wedgwood's business expanded so quickly that within ten years he had built a new factory (cost: more than £3,000), opened a London showroom, and started work on a whole village for his workers, to be named Etruria. As a prominent businessman, Wedgwood repeatedly urged Parliament to build new highways and canals to aid commerce. As a man who remembered his own lack of education he contributed toward two free schools for the poor...
Although Wedgwood has many American customers, the war has halted such trade. Wedgwood is undismayed, however. He is sympathetic to the American cause (he protests against "the absurdity, folly and wickedness of our whole proceedings with America"). Ever the businessman, Wedgwood fully expects to have a new and improved line of tableware ready to sell in America as soon as the war is over...
...stroke of noon, the curly-haired 30-year-old King Carl XVI Gustaf took the arm of his 32-year-old bride−Commoner Silvia Sommerlath, the vivacious daughter of a West German businessman. Then they began the long walk to the ebony and gold altar. Their vows were identical to those exchanged by all Swedes marrying in the state Lutheran Church. Flanking the altar upon cushioned taborets were two gold, jewel-encrusted crowns, which they will never put upon their royal heads. Reason: Carl Gustaf's countrymen would deem that unsuitably undemocratic...
Both his parents are now apologetic about depriving him of his Japanese cultural background, Asakawa said, and his father, a businessman, encouraged a group of his Japanese-American friends to support his son while he writes. "There's an active interest among Asian-Americans to see something written," Asakawa said. "Tradition keeps your identity in a lot of ways. And in recent years it has become popular to encourage separate communities of ethnics to develop." But, he added, "a novel doesn't work just because you are an ethnic, unfortunately...