Word: businessmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Local businessmen, who are mostly Chinese, closed their shops in a strike against the income tax. And a throng of Tahitians who did not want to leave the protective custody of France gathered outside the territorial assembly building in protest. Someone thoughtfully arranged to bring up three truckloads of stones so that the demonstrators did not even have to bend down to find their missiles. Taking aim, the crowd managed to break 57 windows in the assembly building while Tahitian gendarmes tried vainly to recall what the textbooks said about riot control. An official who still retained a dim memory...
...Congressmen found that a simple "lack of awareness" is at the root of many irritations; a careful regard for Canadian interests and sensibilities by U.S. officials and businessmen would do much to smooth relations. So would more frequent visits by Americans, and better coverage of Canada by U.S. newsmen...
...nation's leading businessmen got a chance last week at Hot Springs, Va. to sound a clarion call for what the Government should do about the recession-but they never got the horn to their lips. Instead, the more than 100 members of the Business Advisory Council, a blueblood business group that advises the Secretary of Commerce on top policy matters, spent their semiannual meeting without reaching any clear-cut conclusions about the economy, particularly the matter...
When the idea for the organization, according to Stone, was first presented to the members of the Harvard Square Businessmen's Association, "most of them approved of it outright. A few wanted to know how it would affect them. They were afraid the HSA would become some sort of monster...
These fears have failed to materialize, and despite its expansion, the HSA has not interfered with business in the Square. The corporation "has walked on egg shells in that area," as Monro phrased it. Consequently, the agency has received a fair amount of cooperation from local businessmen...