Word: businessmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cities have faced up to a decline in local industry by all-out and usually successful attempts to attract new industry. Leading example: South Bend, Ind. South Bend was hit hard in 1954 when Studebaker stalled and Singer (sewing machines) pulled out. and a committee of South Bend businessmen set about making the city attractive to industry, saw three dozen firms move in within three years. Last fortnight the erstwhile textile center of New Bedford, Mass, rallied more than 1,000 citizens to a mass meeting to help kick off a new self-help plan for luring new industry...
...field coordinator for the Army Ballistic Missile Agency at top-secret Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Ala. Colonel Nickerson was ordered to face a Third Army court-martial on 18 tough specifications charging that he 1) included secret information on the U.S. missile program in documents sent to unauthorized civilian businessmen and newsmen (as well as-although the charges did not say it-to several Alabama Congressmen), 2) had violated national-security laws by sending three secret documents to Managing Editor Erik Bergaust of Missiles and Rockets magazine, and 3) had lied under oath in denying that he had distributed secret material...
...would also like to ge sure that you understand we are not turning out young economists or businessmen. Only about one-third of 1 per cent of those in Economics 1 are going to be economists and only about 2-3 per cent of our concentrators. Many of our graduates go into business or accept business posts. But our major contribution is to liberal education. Our curriculum takes these facts into account. Seymour E. Harris, Chairman Department of Economics...
...many historians will find hard to toe: business during the early years of the 20th century pretty much ran the U.S. Under Theodore Roosevelt and Wilson, the common man had found champions whose influence petered out after World War I. Prosperity left the liberals crying in the wilderness, and businessmen plundered and ruined the economic system. The big boys were so greedy that they not only killed the goose that laid the golden egg but ate it without offering the ordinary man so much as a bone. The country was on the verge of revolution when along came F.D.R...
Boobs & Crooks. In the end, Author Schlesinger damages his own case, for even Roosevelt admirers are bound to be distressed by the way in which Schlesinger weights his scales with selected evidence to drag down businessmen and to hoist F.D.R. No one can reasonably deny the errors and terrors of the era. But in Schlesinger's version, financiers and members of the Hoover Administration almost without exception are boobs or crooks or both; their reluctance to recognize the Depression for what it was, and to force more stringent Government action, is attributed to nothing more than blindness or greed...