Word: banker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...construction technique which Slick thinks might revolutionize the building industry; another has figured out a new method of artificial insemination which will permit scrub cattle to give birth to purebreds. All Texans-from college presidents to cattlemen-took their abundant energy and confidence for granted. Dallas Banker Bob Thornton had an explanation for it. Said he: "Energy is mostly habit. Take the way people in Dallas walk. Why, in St. Louis I trip over everybody, they walk so slow. That's what's wrong with St. Louis...
Last February, Washington sent slight, straight-talking Banker Joseph Dodge, of Detroit, to help MacArthur get the program started. Last week Troubleshooter Dodge was packing to go home, his mission accomplished. In a busy three months he had persuaded Premier Shigeru Yoshida's government to balance its budget (for the first time since 1931) and set up a realistic yen rate (360 to $1 U.S.). In return for the national belt-tightening that this signified, the Japanese would receive U.S. aid (around $4,000,000 in 1949) along self-helping ECA lines...
...made good financial sense. The welfare fund was likely to soar to $100 million and the union could make more money by putting it out in bank loans than by drawing interest on it as a deposit. But when newsmen asked Lewis if he was now a banker, all they got was a faraway look and a curt: "No comment...
...Radio's equivalent of the Pulitzer Prizes, established in 1940 to perpetuate the memory of Georgia-born Banker-Philanthropist George Foster Peabody. The awards are administered by the University of Georgia's Henry W. Grady School of Journalism, assisted by the National Association of Broadcasters...
...same meeting Saturday three vice presidents were elected to serve one year terms. There are Robert P. MacFadden '26, New York banker; John Tomajan '14, president of the Washburn Company of Worcester; and Bayard L. Kilgour, Jr. '27, president of the Cincinnati and Suburban Telephone Company...