Word: businessmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pleaded "not guilty" and then refused to take the stand, Justice J. L. McKenna found Fertitta guilty, gave him the maximum punishment: a $25 fine. The conviction was much more important than the small fine. In Galveston, where gang leaders like Fertitta have long tried to pose as legitimate businessmen, the criminal conviction reported on Page One of Texas newspapers helped to expose these "legitimate businessmen" for the thugs they...
Landscape painting, like abstract art, goes on forever. Today abstractionism is the height of fashion, but thousands of housewives and businessmen amuse themselves by painting surprisingly competent pictures of vacation scenes. A century ago, landscapes were all the rage with the professionals-but then the hobbyists mainly contented themselves with abstractions such as hooked rugs and patchwork quilts, or semi-abstractions such as duck decoys. Last week the Currier Gallery of Art in Manchester, N.H. staged a 19th-century landscape exhibition called "Artists in the White Mountains" that was bound to draw praise from contemporary amateurs and scorn from fashionably...
...Forthright Stand. Congressman Celler had long since taken a bead on a likely target: Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks and the businessmen who work for the Government without compensation in the Commerce Department's Business Advisory Council. As chairman of the powerful House Judiciary Committee, Celler invited Secretary Weeks to come up and testify about the council. When Weeks replied that he did not know when he might find time, Committee Chairman Celler pronounced the answer evasive. And evasive answers, he went on, were a subject he knew something about. Turning to a fellow committeeman, Pennsylvania Republican Hugh Scott, Celler...
When the record is added up, businessmen fared well in the first session of the 84th Congress. In the investigations, they were lightly tarred by a small group of Fair Dealers. But in legislation-where reason and fairness took hold-they were not hurt. In a year of unprecedented prosperity, when business was hiring more workers, paying more wages and producing more goods than ever before, the U.S. was in no mood to harass its businessmen...
...nation's No. 2 textile manufacturer, earned a reputation as an intelligent, progressive businessman. As a Cabinet officer, he became familiar to U.S. television audiences as the decent but bumbling target of Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy. Bob Stevens lost less by Government service than some businessmen in Government: he can buy J. P. Stevens stock at about $7 a share less than it sold for 2½ years...