Word: businessmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after a ten-day period of terror and near-revolution that saw more than 100 killed, President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, 57, was out. The overwhelming combination of the Roman Catholic Church, rioting university students, the Liberal and the Conservative Parties and the country's tough-minded bankers and businessmen had brought the strongman tumbling down...
...Sense of Destiny. Under such provocation, resistance spread. In a sunny front room of his second-floor apartment, former President Alberto Lleras Camargo asked the city's leading businessmen and bankers to join in a commercial strike...
...well-coached Assembly obediently elected Rojas to a new four-year term beginning in 1958. After the election Rojas addressed the nation by radio and television. In soothing tones, he blamed the riots and strikes on the "oligarchs" (businessmen). He tried to make his peace with the church by declaiming that "the government is Catholic...
Shuttling between his 8-ft. desk in the Daily News publisher's office, and the 10-ft.-by-10-ft. cubicle where he retires to write his "Editor's Notebook," Knight is in closer touch with reality than most publishers, and has often irritated his fellow businessmen. He backed Wendell Willkie, mistrusted Tom Dewey, shied away from Herbert Hoover in 1932 because he felt that Hoover "knew very little about the human equation...
...political phenomenon of our times is the almost childlike faith of the people in Eisenhower. One seldom hears a businessman teeing off on Ike for doing the very things that caused him to cuss out Roosevelt and Truman as 'Socialists.' The answer must be that our businessmen have changed with the times in terms of social attitudes and are glad the program is being administered by a man they trust...