Word: businesswoman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rebuttal came neither from Lady Nancy Astor M. P. (Conservative) nor from Margaret ("St. Maggie") Bondfield M. P. (Laborite), but from Britain's biggest businesswoman, Viscountess Rhondda. the "Coal Queen of Wales," Directress of Cambrian Colleries Ltd.; a peeress in her own right and therefore ineligible to sit in either the House of Commons or the House of Lords...
...southern France. News agencies turned toward Albi last week. Paris reporters trod its cobbled streets to attend and report the trial of Albi's famed "acid bandits": one Gleizes, a horse dealer, and one Aubes, a shopkeeper, accused of holding up the automobile of wealthy Mme. Holland, Albi businesswoman. Flinging vitriol in her face to blind her, they robbed her, left her in agony by the roadside. Into Albi's courtroom walked Mme. Rolland last week, the hideous burns on her face half-hidden by a bandage. "You thought that you would blind me!" she cried pointing...
...headline was made possible by R. B. Gentles, grain broker, as he started on the first westbound trip of the Transcontinental Air Transport, Inc. Others who traveled on the first eastbound T. A. T. express were a businesswoman who wanted to catch a boat to France, a physician who was in a hurry to see his sick daughter, the Mayor of Fargo, N. Dak., several railroad executives...
...late John Pierpont Morgan, conservative, resisted that invasion which came on the heels of the invention of the typewriter and the telephone?the invasion of the businesswoman. But now some 200,000 stenographinae are to be found at work in lower Manhattan. Women had quick fingers, quicker wits. They survived the expensively unfit male bookkeeper, secretary, clerk. Economy forced a new attitude. Ladies turn up at nine a-mornings today at Morgan's itself...
...Luther, E. Ellsworth, William S., all directors-admitted that January, 1928, earnings were one-half of those of January, 1927. Stockholder Mathey said the loss was due to the restaurants' failure to serve meat, their pushing of vegetables and "health foods" (savita, salt substitute). Miss Charlotte Currie, downtown businesswoman stockholder, spoke for business womankind, now refusing to "Go Vegetable-wise," eating elsewhere than at Childs. Other stockholders complained of "stores fitted out like palaces" unable to draw trade; lack of display of the Childs' name; "water should be served with meals as in the past;" "Childs should advertise...