Word: businessmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mind yet in this election"): "You have a lot of people that are big shots in the Cabinet. I want to ask you, Mr. President, do you think of all the working people alike-like in the big business?" Said Ike: "I have three or four very successful businessmen in the Cabinet . . . the Defense Department is spending something like $40 billion a year of our money . . . Who would you rather have in charge of that, some failure that never did anything or a successful businessman...
...over "stuffy classrooms" and "lighting so bad it was blinding the kids," Vellucci won himself a post on the committee and was re-elected two years later by an even bigger vote. 'I made a hell of a fuss," Vellucci reminisces. "I ran against professors and seasoned politicians, big businessmen and lawyers, and I beat them...
Foreign Scapegoats. Tariffs have been halved in the past generation, Bidwell acknowledged, and an increasing majority of U.S. businessmen favor still more slicing. However, Bidwell observed, "when business is bad, American firms are tempted to make a scapegoat of foreign competition, although their difficulties may have arisen principally from domestic causes...
...I.P.C. struck back. It announced it had abandoned plans to route the spur from Horns through Lebanon, had begun building it to the Syrian port of Baniyas instead. The company also fired 120 Lebanese it had hoped to use on the new spur, brought anguished protests from Lebanese businessmen. Cried Right Wing Deputy Nicolas Salem: "It's easy to destroy but not everybody can build . . . Investors are losing faith in Lebanon...
Replying to statements by Chicago businessmen that the tax-free refund allows co-ops to undersell them, Teele claimed that this is not true in the case of the Coop. "We meet competitive prices" of Cambridge businessmen, he said...