Word: entrepreneur
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...escaped briefly from Wall Street when given a small part in a road company of Polly Preferred. Back in trade, he got Noel Coward's brokerage account for Chas. D. Barney & Co. in 1925. Now the Coward business manager and producer, his name appeared last week as entrepreneur of a whole festival of Coward plays which arrived in Manhattan. Actor-Author Coward had written them, directed them, scored them for music, provided in each a part for himself and Gertrude Lawrence. In so doing he seemed in a fair way to add to his record pile...
...first section of the symposium on "Authority and the Individual" was given over to the subject "The State and Economic Enterprise." To this session Douglas Berry Copland, Professor of Commerce at the University of Melbourne, contributed some illuminating remarks on the subject of "The State and the Entrepreneur." Professor Copland spoke from wide experience, for he was one of a group of economists who were instrumental in bringing about a "State-engineered" recovery from the depression in Australia, and well knows the relations between the government and private enterprise. In spite of the fact that the state is often...
...bout was the 50th in a row which 220-lb., 22-year-old Danno Aloysius O'Mahoney has won since he arrived in the U. S. last December. A soldier in the Irish Free State Army, he was discovered in Dublin by a Boston entrepreneur, came here on furlough. Before Danno O'Mahoney has an undisputed claim to the title, he must defeat Ed Don George, still recognized as Champion in Canada and several states...
...late Sergei Diaghilev who established the young composer throughout the world. Diaghilev and his choreographer, Fokine, heard the swirling Fireworks, which Stravinsky wrote as a wedding present for Rimsky's daughter. Fokine told Diaghilev that it made him see flames in the sky. For a shrewd entrepreneur like Diaghilev that was sufficient. In 1910 Stravinsky was commissioned to write The Firebird...
...gets them? Somebody else. . . . A clearheaded, hard-working young man never admits a closed frontier. . . . If he can give better service than a corporation, he succeeds the corporation. . . . Intelligent men profit by history. The intelligent young man reads back, then looks forward."* Mercury to the Masses. As leading entrepreneur of the Depression, Cord finds himself at 39 one of the most meteoric figures