Word: erben
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Contacting Competitors. The man who implicated Cordiner is George E. Burens, 55, company vice president who was sentenced to 30 days in jail and then lost his job. Burens testified that when he took over the switchgear division in 1951, he was briefed by Henry Van Erben, then G.E. executive vice president. According to Burens, Van Erben told him that the "only way to operate the apparatus business was to meet with competitors and set prices." When Burens balked-he opposed price fixing primarily on practical, not moral, grounds-and asked about the company's anticollusion policy, Van Erben...