Word: businessmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pastor of the nondenominational American Church in Paris, Dr. Clayton Edgar Williams, tends a parish that is 49 miles wide, includes only a few thousand resident Americans. But each year some 400,000 U.S. tourists, soldiers and businessmen flock to Paris, and a sizable minority of them find their way to the American Church. Their needs are often unusual: a tired, broke G.I. awakens Pastor Williams at 3 a.m., asks for and gets a bunk for the night; an Air Force captain learns that his nephew has been killed in a street accident, and Dr. Williams opens the church...
...bills only paid lip service to free enterprise, the latest foreign-aid legislation contains a whole new section setting up a Development Loan Fund for the express purpose of "encouraging competitive free enterprise" abroad. For the first time the U.S. Government is authorized to make loans directly to foreign businessmen. The Administration and such businessmen as Clarence Randall, former chairman of Inland Steel, and Benjamin Fairless, former president of U.S. Steel, plus such business organizations as the Committee for Economic Development and the National Planning Association, fought hard to get the fund established. But the attack on Hollister...
...Often he would seek to meet his friend on his own terms, and argue that a liberal education was preparing him better for his future job. He could always point out, for example, that business schools didn't give any special preference to economics majors as making the best businessmen, but selected those students who had done well in any field. And he had heard in the Navy that NROTC students, though initially at a disadvantage, generally caught up with the rigorously trained Annapolis graduates after a few years. But these did not seem to be reasons for taking...
...conference: St. Louis Real Estate Man Oliver Lafayette Parks (an old airman who founded Parks Air College, donated it after the war to the Catholic St. Louis University). Parks received the church's World Mission Award for popularizing mission work. His program: an organization of about 1,200 businessmen, each of whom donates 25? a day to missions by cutting the price of his lunch or otherwise not spending a quarter, offers a daily prayer for missions...
...Lemuel R. Boulware, 62, was one of the most controversial labor-relations managers in the history of a new art. A tough, trap-jawed Kentuckian, Boulware was a hard bargainer during contract negotiations and never failed to point out what a company like G.E. did for its employees. Many businessmen considered "Boulwarism" a smart strategy for combating Big Labor, imitated it widely, even though unions bitterly hated...