Word: nam
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...peace with the Administration in 1934, the manufacturers stepped into the breach, became the President's most violent non-political detractors. That the Nation's industrialists were now going to "cooperate" with the White House if it killed them was manifest from the quantity and quality of NAM members' pacific protestations...
...Industry must accept its responsibility for the national welfare as being an even higher duty than the successful operation of private business," keynoted Colby Mitchell Chester, chairman of General Foods and NAM's present president...
From President George Houk Mead of Mead Corp. (paper), who learned about politics as chairman of Secretary of Commerce Roper's Business Advisory Council came three "conclusions" which would have sounded like heresy or horseplay at NAM's meeting last year: "First-that politics is a highly-developed and honorable profession. . . . Second-that it is the obligation of industrial and business executives, as part of their daily work, to give time and consideration to the government of community, state and nation. . . . Third -that Government representatives . . . are giving untiring, conscientious effort to most difficult tasks...
Most ambitious of these originated with the National Association of Manufacturers, which has been fuming about attacks on Business for years. NAM's present head. Board Chairman Colby dicker of General Foods, has been exhorting his colleagues to tell their side of the story ever since he took office last winter. In Chicago last month NAM finally decided to try a series of advertisements prepared free of charge by Lord & Thomas...
Other advertisements in the series: "A Word to a Wise Woman" (taxes). "The Myth About Men & Machines." "Two Billion People Envy You." The last two prepared by Campbell-Ewald Co., harp the slogan, "There is No Way Like the American Way." NAM paid for the first test insertions but the plan is to have news papers sell the series as ready-made copy, the space to be paid for by individual manufacturers or local trade bodies. A number of the advertisements have appeared on this basis...