Word: businessmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MOROCCO. King Mohammed V, 49, has tried to be a "man of balance.'' but the scales are rapidly breaking down. All the King's men are agitating-city workers, rural tribesmen, worried businessmen and politicians squabbling for power. "I don't know where my people want to go," says the King. "But if they turn toward the East. I won't stand in their way. I'll abdicate...
...United gained 14% and Delta 40%, in the first eleven months alone. The Flying Tiger line, operating largely as a cargo carrier, jumped 25%, to 65.6 million ton-miles and a $12 million gross. The big boost comes from a new approach to cargo by both the lines and businessmen. Instead of relying on emergency shipments of badly needed goods and the small oddball traffic in perishable orchids, baby whales and race horses, the airmen aimed a new pitch at solid production-line items, set out to show businessmen how to save money by distributing...
Everyone reacted wonderfully in character. New York's Finest, in the shape of First Deputy Police Commissioner James Kennedy, came forward indignantly to ask names and addresses of the call girls, madams and businessmen whose voices were heard on the show. He got no information from Murrow in an interview that lasted just long enough (seven minutes) for picture taking. The New Dealing New York Post found in the program some vague evidence of capitalism's corruption ("Sales are sometimes clinched by a clinch ... in the world of free enterprise"). The New York Journal-American saw the whole...
...Many businessmen felt that Murrow had smeared them through "guilt by association." That call girls are sometimes used by business was scarcely news. But, said the New York World-Telegram and Sun: "We just don't believe this sordid business exists on anything like the scale Murrow suggests . . . Cops and other authorities are openly skeptical that many businesses routinely debauch their customers...
...concept of public responsibility is not a particularly clear or easily formulated one. It embodies the realization that educated men can and should take prominent parts in the affairs of their society, as lawyers, politicians, ministers, businessmen and journalists, no less than as educators. An undergraduate training which fails to value these professional capacities or subordinates them to an obsession with producing teachers is not a training aimed at meeting the broadest demands of the community...