Word: nystrom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rank-&-file attendants some 750 business men actively engaged in distribution, had such headline speakers as President Percy Straus of R. H. Macy & Co., General R. E. Wood, president of Sears, Roebuck & Co., President Oswald Knauth of Associated Dry Goods Corp., Cosmetician Elizabeth Arden, Professor Paul H. Nystrom of Columbia University, President Karl T. Compton of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and not least of all, Secretary of State Cordell Hull. To garnish this group as chairman of the first day's luncheon session, Director Bloomfield had little difficulty in getting the services of James Roosevelt...
High-spot of the two-day conclave was the aggressive speech of Professor Nystrom. Introduced by Chairman Roosevelt Mr. Nystrom, an authority on business trends, lashed out at irresponsibility of labor unions in a way which just as visibly embarrassed the President's son as it delighted the audience. Said he: ". . . There is resistance [on the part of employers], not to collective bargaining per se, but to what lies behind it. Unfortunately, to many employers, it looks as if any invitation, either of labor to management or of management to labor, to sup at a common table is likely...
...Paul Nystrom, president of the Limited Price Variety Stores Association: Let us not mince matters. Let us call things by their right names. This is monopoly. ... In view of the rapid price increases that have already occurred and still others certain to come, it is now almost certain that we shall have a period of severe consumer resistance this coming spring...