Word: businessmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tariffs. It won other votes by handouts: land to farmers as free homesteads, Treasury funds to Union soldiers as pensions. It won election after election. "What could you do with a party that had emancipated the slave, saved the Union, given everybody a bounty in land or tariff, assured businessmen of prosperity and poor men of a full dinner pail...
Back in Underclothes. Prices are high: businessmen keep asking high prices for their goods, in an attempt to get the capital which they cannot borrow. A plain laborer earning no marks a month spends most of his wages on food; a cheap suit will cost him two months' pay, shoes more than a week's. "Stuttering," as the Germans call installment-plan buying, is in high vogue. Crack the stutterers: "Any honest man has debts today...
Rotary traffic, the miracle merry-go-round that would turn Harvard Square into a pedestrian playground, no longer exists. Recent changes in the new stop-lights and street directions now shuttle traffic along most of the old routes, and according to City Engineer Edgar Davis, "it's only the businessmen who have benefited much from the experiment...
Complaints by local businessmen have been largely responsible for the demise of rotary traffic. The one-way traffic system evolved for upper Boylston Street was a vital part of the master plan, which was a vital part of the master plan. It on the western side of the block claimed that it was harming business
Texas' Senator Tom Connolly got off a history-making announcement in a speech before 400 businessmen celebrating the opening of a $7,000,000 Nabisco plant in Houston. Assuring the baking company officials that they had invested their money safely, the senator predicted: "There is not going to be any Communism in this country or in Texas...