Word: businessmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Some businessmen realize that their failure to be counted at campaign time tends to hinder business' role of leadership in U.S. society. They recognize the fact that, despite the enormous impact of business on the welfare of 168 million Americans, its legitimate interests have never in modern times been treated with the sympathy that politicians reserve for farmers or organized labor. Even many politicians favorably inclined toward the businessman's interests are reluctant to speak...
...improve the standing and increase the participation of businessmen in politics, General Electric recently sent 400,000 management men and stockholders a pamphlet entitled "Political Helplessness of Business Hurts Everybody." G.E.'s main argument: "The big reason that union officials are thought to be so important politically while businessmen are usually so impotent is that rightly or wrongly the politicians figure union officials can and do influence votes, while businessmen can't and don't. The businessman who says he's not involved in politics is kidding himself−dangerously." Adds William Harrison Fetridge, vice president...
...businessmen achieve first-class political citizenship? In some states, e.g., Ohio, California, they have formed political organizations on a continuing basis. Individual companies also are gingerly tackling the problem with campaigns to register employees, bipartisan presentation of issues and candidates in forums and house organs. Westinghouse, for example, devotes equal space in its company newspaper to candidates of both parties, prints each party's statements verbatim. Johnson & Johnson, No. 1 U.S. maker of bandages and surgical dressings, has started a nonpartisan political-education program that has prompted 80 employees to hold political office in states where the company...
Many business leaders are becoming increasingly aware that management cannot play an effective role in politics merely by contributing cash in election years or leaping into the fray when threatened with hostile legislation. If business is to live up to its social responsibilities, they argue, businessmen will have to devote to politics the inventiveness and drive that they lavish full-time on their jobs. Says U.S. Chamber of Commerce President John S. Coleman: "We must have a point of view−a philosophy that will permit us, instead of resisting change, to play a creative role in controlling and directing...
...conferences featuring greats of philosophy, education and musiC−Albert Schweitzer, Reinhold Niebuhr, Jacques Barzun, Mortimer Adler, Igor Stravinsky, et al. This week, with the tax evaluation of Aspen increased sixteenfold, Paepcke, 60, prepared to open a new nonprofit enterprise: The Aspen Health Center for basically healthy but pooped businessmen...