Word: businessmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week in an expansive mood. To foreign correspondents he declared that the U.S. maintains "the world's worst censorship." He went on to explain that the U.S. press is controlled by at least three sets of censors. Lomakin ticked them off: first the Post Office Department, secondly businessmen and advertisers, and thirdly the State Department. He quoted Harvard Professor Zechariah Chafee Jr. as "admitting to me personally that the U.S. has the worst censorship." Professor Chafee's reply to Lomakin: "mostly false and the rest misleading...
...this price-cutting a forerunner of serious trouble? In Chicago, Edwin G. Nourse, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, said: all the signs pointed toward a sustained high level of profits and employment, if U.S. businessmen would "lead the process of downward price adjustment, not fight...
...field swarmed with old and young BLC players, some balding businessmen, some recent college graduates, all wearing the gaudy orange sweaters of the BLC and all raring to get a little exercise on the first decent spring day of the year...
...gingerly over the touchy political subject of Brazil's undeveloped oil resources, recommended that the country: 1) modify its laws to guarantee outside investors fair treatment, 2) make an "investment treaty" with the U.S. which would eliminate the practice of double taxation on profits earned abroad by U.S. businessmen. But Brazilians should not expect-nor should they want-such foreign investments to supply any great proportion of their capital needs. Progress, said the report, "should, in the main, be financed with domestic funds. Only thus can an excessive future burden be avoided...
...recommendations promptly brought criticism from some bankers. They objected to any increase in centralization and wanted to keep bond operations in the hands of the Federal Open Market Committee. Said ex-President Hoover, who has had long experience with both businessmen and bureaucrats: "By the time it is all over, we expect an aggregate of 100% of those affected to resist reforms...