What is "businessmen"

Usage examples of "businessmen".

There is no existing evidence that would suggest that the money extorted from local businessmen had ever been used by the gang to pay legal defense fees in the Purple Gang case.

The bankers and the larger businessmen, the landowners and dividend-drawers, the officials with their prehensile bottoms, will obstruct for all they are worth.

As they grew older they became bolder, rolling drunks and extorting protection money from local businessmen, even looting boxcars in the local freight yards and battling other juvenile gangs.

Northern businessmen, seeing Republican policies as beneficial to them, went along for a while.

Judgments for damages against businessmen were taken out of the hands of juries, which were unpredictable, and given to judges.

Ameriean businessmen, politicians, and intellectuals who formed the Anti-Imperialist League in 1898 and carried on a long campaign to educate the American public about the horrors of the Philippine war and the evils of imperialism.

Still, enough Italians became construction workers, enough Jews became businessmen and professionals, to create a middle-class cushion for class conflict.

Its officers were mostly big businessmen, and important national politicians, but its first vice-president, for a long time, was Samuel Gompers of the AFL.

American diplomats and businessmen worked hard to make sure that when the war ended, American economic power would be second to none in the world.

In the long run I think the hardest people to bring to heel will be the businessmen, who have most to lose by the passing of the present system and in some cases are consciously pro-Hitler.

Society was ruled by narrow-minded, profoundly incurious people, predatory businessmen, dull squires, bishops, politicians who could quote Horace but had never heard of algebra.

She needed volunteers, psychologists, teachers, some businessmen, women, and even victims.

Because he let out contracts to businessmen and manufacturers for equipment and supplies, he was a very powerful figure-and unless he was a man of superior integrity, in a perfect position to enrich himself.

He led the way through to a gaping hole where a short time before a small news kiosk had served businessmen working in the City.

These conflicting reactions meant that the reception was uneven, social leaders of the old Confederate city standing aghast at the invasion, bankers and businessmen being rather glad to see it.