Word: businessmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gruff, rumpled throwback to Mencken's soap box demagogues. The face is bulldoggish, the figure dumpy, the voice a throaty croak. There are no silken buzz words in Jarvis' earthy speeches. In his repertory of epithets, Republicans are "the stupidest people in the world except for businessmen, who have a genius for stupidity"; the League of Women Voters is "a bunch of nosy broads who front for the big spenders"; others who oppose his beloved proposition, "dummies, goons, cannibals or big-mouths." The tax issue, he says, is "Armageddon, a war of machetes. They're going...
...Washington, where Jane Fonda once condemned the System, where angry farmers three months ago unleashed frightened goats, where Moonies have sung and right-to-lifers raged, there last Thursday afternoon were several hundred small businessmen standing in polished shoes and a light mist to tell their Government that they were opposed to yet another layer of regulation...
They came from Ohio and Massachusetts and Missouri. There is no memory of their having taken to the pavement in the past. For decades businessmen big and small have been the target of much political contempt and odium, often with justification. They were the representatives of profit and greed (a distinction rarely made), purveyors of shoddy products and pollution. Businessmen searched for influence in the subterranean corridors of power, using lawyers and fixers, fearful of bureaucrats, reporters and sunshine...
...talks with Carter, Jones uses the right buzz words. If businessmen are going to risk money to create jobs, he says, they have to earn better than the current 4% real return on investment, which is way down from the almost 10% of the mid-1960s...
Government leaders and a few private businessmen in the industrial lands are beginning to recognize that growth in the LDCs offers a way out of this box. Economic advance in the poor countries, so goes the argument, would open markets for steel, chemicals and other products now glutting the North, increase production and employment in the U.S., Europe and Japan-and do all that at little inflationary price...