Word: entrepreneurs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the war, because of his activity in behalf of Franklin Roosevelt's reelection, Andy Higgins had earned a public reputation as a businessman New Dealer. He had helped organize the "Businessmen for Roosevelt" in the 1944 campaign. But Andy Higgins had always been a rough & ready entrepreneur; he damned bureaucrats of all kinds-Government and labor...
Hardly any of this is as interesting as the improvising that Bendix (materially assisted by Miranda) does with the King's English. As an ambitious nightclub entrepreneur, he substitutes affability for finesse and rides to glory as a Broadway producer, pausing periodically to potshot people who think high-flown language is better than low-blown horse sense...
...middle-class nation if there ever was one, the Czechs never were given to grandiose social scheming, to the strain of collectivism. There is an individualistic peasant and a shrewd entrepreneur in every Czech; and, if anyone does, Jan Masaryk personifies this Czech flair for individualism and good living...
Soon the late great entrepreneur of modern art, Ambroise Vollard, met Vlaminck who was sporting a wooden necktie which could be painted any color to suit the mood of the wearer. Vollard and other dealers enabled him to buy a small farm near Paris. There, between the wars, Vlaminck lived, with his wife and two daughters. Dressed in an English tweed shooting cap, open-neck shirt, breeches and puttees, Vlaminck farmed, painted, wrote poetry, drove his big racing car at high speed across the countryside. Today, though he probably does not know it, there is a rising U.S. market...
Warm Feeling, Cold Action. Shrewd Entrepreneur Rickey valued the coin of fanatic loyalty, of which mob resentment was only the other side, and planned to cash it. Meanwhile, he did not blame the angry fans. He understood their emotion and sympathized with it. Between this warm feeling and the cold action he knew he had to take, Rickey came face to face with the horny dilemma. He says that during the Camilli hullabaloo he was tempted to make peace...