Word: profiteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senator Gerald P. Nye, whose plans for enjoying the spotlight of the munitions investigation were upset by the President's announcement of still bigger plans to take the profit out of war (TIME, Dec. 24), called, by request, at the White House. He emerged mollified. Said he: "We had a very nice visit. . . . There is evidently not the slightest reason for the theory that the President wanted to end our investigation...
Merchant Irénée du Pont, seller of munitions, was beset by the hornets of a Senate investigation which moved the Man of the Year to take steps to take the profit...
...with Williams men and stay out as late as they like, they need only notify the college office in advance. During the winter they ski. skate, gather in a general store for tea and talk. This year some of them are running the store cooperatively, making a modest profit...
...Taking the profit out of war" is a popular cause and the President would be well justified as a political opportunist to take it away from the Republican Senators who are running the current investigation...
...Opera House for orchestra concerts. Carnegie depends on the Philharmonic rental to survive as a concert hall. And the city needs Carnegie for the Boston and Philadelphia orchestra concerts as well as for individual musicians who draw big crowds. Toscanini felt that the merger offered no artistic profit to either organization, objected specifically to having concerts at the old Metropolitan where the acoustics are suitable only for opera. New Yorkers accepted his word as gospel although he begged the Orchestra's board members not to let "this honest opinion carry any weight in their minds or arrest any negotiations...