Word: mobilize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week at a breakfast in Manhattan, ten members of the Financial Women's Association, a group of successful managers, introduced themselves as qualified candidates for board membership to the heads of 30 major corporations, including General Motors, Pfizer, Kennecott Copper, Uniroyal and Mobil. Said one of the aspirants, Paula Hughes, 47, a vice president and director of Thomson McKinnon Securities: "Being on a board is the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval. Women get on boards because they have already been on boards." Added another candidate, Ellen Berland Sachar, 37, a vice president and security analyst with Paine Webber...
Herbert Schmertz, vice president of Mobil Oil Corporation, said yesterday network television's news shows are "the most closed, systematically exclusionary" media in America because they "rigidly apply" a censorship process to the points of view they present...
...speech at the Business School, sponsored by the Communications, Arts, and Entertainment Club, Schmertz said the networks repeatedly refused to run Mobil advertisements on energy-related topics because "they were too controversial...
Schmertz discussed Mobil's efforts to establish its "corporate personality" through informative advertisements and through the sponsoring of artistic and other "quality projects...
...accusations just don't apply to us." Schmertz said, adding "It's a disservice to the process of trying to recruit Jewish students into our corporation. It gives them the feeling that Mobil might not be a good place for them to work...