Word: jonesism
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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In San Francisco Gastrointestinal Specialist Dr. Felix Cunha charted the incidence of stomach ailments against the Dow-Jones average. Result: a rough X, showing that when business goes down, businessmen's stomach troubles go up. Said Business Week: "Logical as that thesis is, though, we'd like to...
The Hjalmar Schacht of the U. S. Revolution was brought to Washington by Herbert Hoover. He was a Texas businessman who had almost gone broke in Depression. By 1940 he was rich again, and the Revolution had made him Secretary of Commerce and Federal Loan Administrator. Business thought of Jesse...
Throughout 1940, Business still looked on Jesse Jones as its man. Yet he was tolerated by the New Deal as a candidate for two of its most sacred jobs: 1) integrating the U. S. with Latin America; 2) being President in 1944. If businessmen were unlucky to have the avowed...
LIFE ON OTHER WORLDS-H. Spencer Jones-Macmillan ($3).
Elizabeth Canning, a virtuous serving wench, vanished into the labyrinthine London night on New Year's, 1753. Four weeks later she reappeared, bloodstained, gaunt with hunger, clad in rags. Before Magistrate Henry Fielding she told a tale which might have been sliced from his own Tom Jones. She claimed...