Word: axioms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Michigan's Governor-elect knows that the ability to make a quick decision is the mark of a good executive. But Lenore Romney, his handsome wife (who opted for marriage instead of a movie contract in 1931) knows the wifely wisdom of the let-George-do-it axiom. Out shopping for an inaugural ball gown, she nodded agreeably when his eye fastened on a "blush orchid" satin number with beaded bodice and boat neckline. Said she: "George chose it, I tried it on. and away we went...
Regarding your article on the Honorable Senator Harry F. Byrd: Is the axiom that the laws ought to "be enforced by the white people of this country" one of the lessons this man of reminiscences is to teach to "that attractive young fellow in the White House...
...steel industry is proud of the axiom that "As steel goes, so goes the economy." Increasingly, this boast is challenged by those who say that the growing switch to such substitute materials as aluminum and concrete makes steel a lot less basic than it once was. But steel is still the biggest single force in U.S. industry, still directly provides the bread and butter of one U.S. industrial worker...
Then came the dramatic showdown between the President and U.S. Steel. It is a Wall Street axiom that the market always finds a ready reason for a selling wave-and this time the accepted one is Kennedy's offensive against steel. Says U.C.L.A. Economist Theodore Andersen: "Kennedy's criticism of steel triggered the market decline, but the gun had to be loaded-poor yields, better returns elsewhere, the lack of a need of a hedge against price inflation...
...statements have more power to depress the average U.S. businessman, beset as he is by a daily avalanche of forms, reports and correspondence, than the late "Engine Charlie" Wilson's axiom that "nothing takes place in the world of government or business that is not motivated by a piece of paper." Every repetition of this dictum, however, brings a beatific smile to the face of bulky, deliberate Milferd Aaron Spayd, 61, of Dayton, Ohio. Thanks to U.S. industry's ever deeper entrapment in paperwork, Spayd's Standard Register Co. has surged from onetime bankruptcy to buoyant prosperity...