Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chairman Charles Michael Schwab of the Bethlehem Steel Corp. is one Big Businessman who had not, until last week, made a political statement. When he spoke, Mr. Schwab had news. Said he: "I think more of my job than I do of politics. They wanted me to be Treasurer of the Republican campaign, but I turned it down...
Therefore a Berlin taxi driver brought suit, last week, against a stingy "Polish" businessman who refused to give him more than 50 marks ($11.90), when the honest chauffeur found and restored $37,000 in unregistered, negotiable securities. The reward now legally demanded is 16,000 marks...
Though the stingy businessman's name was concealed, last week, it is natural for German reporters to dub him "Polish," just as Paris and London dailies hang their best anonymous stories on "an American," often when some prankish Argentine or tippling Russian is to blame...
Perturbed would be a U. S. businessman, professor, poet, soldier or statesman, if President Coolidge said to him: "Please write the sentence 'Now is the time for all good men to. come to the aid of the party' in Arabic characters...
...trial of Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray; that brooding upon it, she was able to select from the gaudy tangle a single thread on which to build her tragedy. Thus in Machinal a young woman marries, to escape the routine of work in an office, a gross and chuckling businessman. She bears him a child which she hates as she fears its father; then, in a speakeasy, she meets a man with whom she falls in love. He tells her how, in Mexico, he killed a native by hitting him on the head with a bottle full of pebbles. When...