Word: businessmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Guard stands for the kind of entrenched-organization Republicanism that gathers strength and influence from the congressional seniority system. It is backed by the influence of articulate, conservative businessmen and business organizations such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (TIME, May 13). It mistrusts most of the New Deal social legislation and the Eisenhower extensions and additions to it; e.g., it opposes the whole theory of federally supported school construction and health reinsurance as part of the pattern of "creeping socialism." Its old inner rumblings of isolationism make foreign aid especially suspect. The Old Guard is the party of Taft...
...Dose. Looking around for assistants to help him in the cure, Morrison found most New Orleans businessmen painfully aware of the illness, anxious to help, and even ready to accept the cost in time and taxes of the medicines he prescribed. The New Orleans antidote...
...other foreigners from eleven lines of business, proclaimed 500,000 Viet Nam-born Chinese males (known as "uncles") forthwith Vietnamized, and commanded them to take new names. South Viet Nam's Chinese, one of Southeast Asia's most outspokenly anti-Communist communities, reacted promptly. Some Chinese businessmen simply took in a Vietnamese partner as a cover, stayed right on in business. But many others, partly from pride, partly because they thought Diem was bluffing, decided to hold...
...regularity of an annual case of spring fever. And now, once again-to use a great mixed metaphor-'The crape-hangers are crying wolf in the marketplace.' " So said Ford Edsel Division General Sales Manager J. C. Doyle last week, commenting on the curious psychology of businessmen and the U.S. public about the boom. Instead of optimism, the greatest economic advance in history has often produced the opposite effect: a fretful, unreasoning pessimism. Like rabid Mickey Mantle fans, the U.S. has become so used to herculean feats that it expects a home run every turn...
Though few German businessmen were as extreme as Beitz, almost none said that they were opposed to the trade pact with Moscow that the Russians want but that Chancellor Adenauer has stalled. The Russians missed few chances to exploit this business-is-business attitude, told German businessmen that Russia soon will propose a giant East-West trade program...