Word: entrepreneurs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Labor's honeymoon with the present Administration is definitely over. The workingman was given a substantial lift but that push did not suffice to bring the country out of the depression, so now he may expect nothing but rebuffs. It is now the entrepreneur's turn to be listened to. It was possible for a new Administration, filled with idealism and brain trusts, to force some concessions down the delicate throats of the industrialists. But that this could continue in a laissez-faire system where power in synonymous with wealth, in inconceivable. Any permanent concessions to labor must...
...large class outside the law does; he settled his differences outside the law, to the accompaniment of slaughter and terrorism. The early colonial fur traders became suspect for the same reason, although the sin of the bootlegger has been aggravated by a centralization which made him a vast entrepreneur in other criminal fields, and produced the American genus racketeer, with all that it connotes in the breakdown of municipal, state, and even federal administration...
...Entrepreneur Moss insisted on naming the new vessel Explorer. This disappointed Designer Lake who, because the small submarine can trundle sidewise over the sea floor, ached to call her Crab...
...contestants appeared: a M. Jane, a M. Robert Désarthis. M. Jane, a modernist, introduced into his performance such persons as Charlie Chaplin and Bicot, the French cinema comedian. MM. les Sénateurs and their children would have none of him. Puppeteer Désarthis, an entrepreneur who had already had many a successful season farther south in the Pare de Montsouris, triumphed...
THAT'S GRATITUDE?Frank Craven as a smalltime theatrical entrepreneur, in a play of his own making (TIME, Sept...