Word: businessmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...building character as well as learning into the make-up of its students (the school motto: "Manners maketh man"), Winchester has turned out a share of statesmen (including Sir Stafford Cripps) and military men (Field Marshal Earl Wavell) as well as literary lights (18th Century Poet Laureate William Whitehead), businessmen and barristers...
...Elyria's WEOL were fought by the Horvitz papers-the Mansfield News-Journal (circ. 26,000) and the Lorain Journal (circ. 21,000). Merchants complained to the federal government that both papers refused to mention the radio stations, and canceled or turned down newspaper advertising contracts with businessmen who bought radio time. When the Horvitz brothers applied for licenses to start their own radio stations, they were turned down by FCC last year because of their record of "suppressing competition and establishing [advertising] monopolies...
...central purchasing policy. Under such a policy, no member of the Council or a related committee would be permitted to buy anything without first getting the approval of a Councilman in charge of spending. This "business manager" would be acquainted with comparative rates of printers and other businessmen and would be in a position to drive a much better bargain for the Council than the inadequately informed committeemen who have dealt with such matters in the past...
Changed Spots. Then the ward leaders got a surprise in turn-they were not asked to pick the new faces. Meade asked Philadelphia's bankers, lawyers, doctors and the biggest businessmen in town to help him with his selections, got four candidates of almost unbelievable political purity. The machine found itself running an investment banker and economist for controller, a professor of medicine for coroner, a wealthy meat packer for treasurer, a prominent lawyer for register of wills...
...Victorian era's high noon, most businessmen were warmed by the belief that the biggest rewards would automatically go, by economic law, to the producer of the best and cheapest product. It was mainly patent medicinemen who "took advertising" regularly. In 1888, there were only two men in New York who admitted to being professional writers of advertising; one of them resided in a Bowery hotel, at 25? a night...