Word: burnham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dartmouth is expected to take the varsity event, with Captain Sid Bull '42 and Don Burnham, a sensational sophomore, finishing one-two. Bob Williams '43 is given a good chance to place third...
Destroyers: Richmond, Burnham, Le Triomphant (Free French...
...cautions Author Burnham, "the New Deal is not Stalinism and not Naziism. It is . . . far more primitive with respect to managerial development, and capitalism is not yet over in the U.S. But no candid observer, friend or enemy of the New Deal, can deny that in terms of economic, social, political, ideological changes from traditional capitalism, the New Deal moves in the same direction as Stalinism and Naziism. The New Deal is a phase of the transition process from capitalism to managerial society." Readers of The Managerial Revolution may wonder whether Author Burnham does not carry neutrality...
...generally understood or valued in the U.S., something that must be read mostly between the lines: the story of what Grade A business management means and can achieve. It is the inadvertent self-revelation of a resourceful organizing genius who is a really great manager, but not in Mr. Burnham's sense. The greatness of Sloan's achievement is that he took the vast rambling collection of companies which Promoter Durant put together with all a promoter's nonchalance, and made it into a well-knit, well-run company...
...there are flaws in Mr. Burnham's theory that governmental managers will eventually take over the world's economy, the greatest one is that, so far, government managers have yet to prove-in Russia, Germany or the U.S.-that they can permanently run the economic machine with sufficiently satisfactory results to keep mankind in bondage to them, run it with an efficiency anywhere near equal to that with which Mr. Sloan runs General Motors...