Word: du
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Business Day was more predictable. Nader denounced U.S. corporations as "legal Frankensteins" that usurp human rights; a local labor leader declared a union war on business. In the National Visitor Center Gallery at Union Station, a "Corporate Hall of Shame" was erected for eleven companies, including Exxon, Citicorp and Du Pont...
...company in the family's interest. Mosley details how this proud man was genuinely aggrieved and confounded when a government committee led by Alger Hiss investigated du Pont's World War I activities and accused them of gross profiteering. He simply could not fathom the criticism. In his mind had it not been for du Pont's efforts, the allies would not have had enough gunpowder...
...book is a catalogue of these arrogant viewpoints and dealings. The du Ponts' lifestyles and attitudes are startling anachronisms, for when the family crossed the Atlantic they brought with them the values of Louis XIV. From the start of their business in the United States the du Ponts viewed themselves as privileged individuals, and Blood Relations is the absorbing account of the two hundred years they flaunted their self-declared superiority...
...quite a few leaders of the class of the '70s are about to make their valedictory. "We are all getting close to retirement age," says Shapiro, 63, who in 15 months has to leave the chairmanship of Du Pont, the chemicals colossus. "It will be a challenge for companies to produce the same kind of group in the 1980s...
...Business Roundtable, which has replaced some more regressive groups as the premier public policy arm of corporate America. A few years ago, his peers selected Irv Shapiro to head the Roundtable. When Shapiro, who is a Jew, a Democrat and a lawyer, was chosen in 1974 as chairman of Du Pont, which had been led by Christian, Republican, financial and technical men, it seemed that almost any American could hope to become chief of almost any U.S. company...