Word: presidental
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Although NBC announced the appointment of a "vice president in charge of standards and practices,'' it was still CBS that talked most loudly and earnestly about reforms. Frank Stanton explicitly forbade his flock to accept payola.* CBS top brass also issued a decree to its staff that seemed...
Meeting in Manhattan last week, 2,000 delegates to the 64th Congress of the National Association of Manufacturers were fully prepared, as usual, for a series of speeches attacking high taxes. At the opening session they were jarred out of position by IBM President Thomas J. Watson Jr. He told...
Echoing Watson's remarks, Allen Dulles, director of the Central Intelligence Agency, cautioned that in the struggle for the uncommitted nations, Russia had a "subversive arsenal of organizations which use the slogans of peace, friendship and coexistence. We have not answered the challenge if we limit ourselves merely to...
There was more unanimity on the N.A.M.'s contention that labor featherbedding threatens the U.S.'s competitive position in world trade. "It is a plain economic fact," said Sinclair Oil Vice President Millard E. Stone, "that the country can no longer afford to let management be handcuffed by...
The N.A.M.'s new president was born in Gothenburg, Sweden in 1897, emigrated to the U.S. in 1910. Completing grammar school in Holyoke, Mass., Bannow went to work as an apprentice patternmaker in 1911 at 6½? an hour ("I was grossly underpaid"). In 1919 he shipped around the...