Word: businesswoman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From a $7.50-a-day extra Miss Rand worked up to a $750-a-week silent film ingenue. When 1929 took her savings she had earned $2,000 weekly in vaudeville. For Recovery she developed her illuminating fan dance. In 1933 and 1934 Businesswoman Beck grossed $6,000 a week (with outside engagements) at Chicago's Century of Progress. Thereafter it was all gravy: movies, contracts, $1,000-a-day appearances at Atlantic City's Steel Pier, $2,500-a-week unveilings at Manhattan's Paradise Restaurant...
...Manhattan banker and socialite-was but a comely divorcée somewhat in need of cash, a woman whose horizon was largely bounded by Newport and Park Avenue when she unwittingly wrote a book which was to make her fame and fortune. Today, at 64, she is a prosperous businesswoman whose horizon has been considerably broadened by her responsibility as autocrat of U. S. etiquette, by the impact of 6,000 questions a week which pour in upon her from millions who have never seen Newport or Park Avenue...
Last week a Philadelphia businesswoman attempted suicide because of the Supreme Court's decision in the Schechter case...
...Lucy Sutherland) 71. famed dress designer, long-time president of Lucile Ltd. (now defunct), Titanic survivor, sister of Novelist Elinor Glyn; after six months' illness; in London. She was credited with the first split skirt, first manikin show, first application of the word chic to clothes. A poor businesswoman, she once told a recorder in bankruptcy that she did not know what a share of stock...
Died. Katharine I. Harrison, 68, pioneer "highest salaried businesswoman" ($10,000 a year, 30 years ago); of cerebral hemorrhage; in Palm Beach, Fla. Long-time secretary to Henry Huddleston Rogers, she had an encyclopedic knowledge of Standard...