Word: businessmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Collaborating with Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield, long a power in the Michigan Republican hierarchy, Feikens has managed to repair most of the damage caused by the bitter Taft-Eisenhower fight in 1952, which alienated some of the G.O.P.'s best-heeled backers. Today Feikens is constantly prodding businessmen to get into the campaign more deeply. "Corporate lawyers won't let companies stick their necks out," he complains bitterly. "Most opinion leaders in Michigan communities are Republicans, and when they say that the C.I.O. still controls the state, somebody's falling down on the job pretty badly...
...before he began to talk of trade in dried fruits. Sometimes he wondered, Chamoun added with a touch of bitterness, if the East or West really wanted stability in the Middle East. Later, at Amritsar in the Punjab, Scott faced an audience of bearded Sikhs and smooth-jowled Indian businessmen who bombarded him with questions about U.S. foreign policy, morals and politics. And soon afterwards, a Calcutta editor challenged him to defend discrimination in the U.S., demanding: "Would you be comfortable sitting down to dinner with a black Indian-not a brown Indian like myself, but a really black...
City Councillor Al Vellucci yesterday told the CRIMSON that Thursday's offer to the University by a "leading Peterborough citizen" of 400 acres for a relocated College is "all a planned hoax by a group of Peterborough businessmen to take away our colleges and industries...
...Young Bill") White in the Emporia Gazette: "What Mr. Stauffer has purchased is a dead horse of fantastic proportions, and his bill of sale has bought him largely the right to use his brains and energy to try to revive it. Mr. Stauffer, however, is one of the shrewdest businessmen in Kansas. He has never yet bit off anything without knowing clearly in advance exactly how it should be chewed...
...inland city into one of the busiest U.S. ports, handling $500 million worth of waterway cargo alone last year, including everything from autos to seashells. The waterway has also opened up the Gulf's vast natural resources at bargain-basement prices. By using strings of heavily laden barges, businessmen can ship goods north and south at rates anywhere from 20% to 50% cheaper than by rail or truck. The saving, says the U.S. Corps of Engineers, which built the waterway, amounts to a whopping $83 million annually, more than the entire $65 million construction cost since the canal...