Word: businessmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...charter granted by the State of Massachusetts declares the HSA to be "a private non-profit corporation." There is a Board of Directors, consisting of five students, five businessmen, and five Faculty members, which has the final authority for all actions and policies of the corporation...
...feared nobody-least of all Liberal Leader William Ewart Gladstone, whose fondness for the healthy exercise of axing trees he excoriated with pungent brevity: "The forest laments, in order that Mr. Gladstone may perspire." Other of his brisk remarks have passed into the language, e.g., his description of snobbish businessmen as "lords of suburban villas . . . owners of vineries and pineries"; of Gladstone, "the Old Man in a hurry." At 37, Lord Randolph was Leader of the House of Commons, boss of the Treasury ("the youngest since Pitt"), and husband of the American beauty, Jennie Jerome. He maddened old Queen Victoria...
This statement is contrary to fact. The Agency Corporation has consulted carefully with the Harvard Square Businessmen's Association from the beginning of our operations, and has not undertaken new ventures harmful to existing businessmen. In your recent news column accounts of our preliminary plans for a new photographic agency, the CRIMSON did its best to create the impression that the Square businessmen were upset. But, as the President of the Businessmen's Association, Mr. James Brine, said in your columns April 26, "The Agency is trying awfully hard not to interfere with business in the Square." Mr. Brine told...
...City Council last week expressed its disapproval of the trial plan in a 5-4 roll call vote. The Harvard Square Businessmen's Association, however, voted Tuesday in favor of extending the trial period for another 30 days...
Jones: A lot of businessmen and economists think so. The Committee for Economic Development and the National Planning Association have come out for a tax cut, and so has the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. So, for that matter, has Harry Truman...