Word: sawyer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President is as determined as anyone to keep the budget balanced. Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer, dressed in dove's clothing and holding out an olive branch to the National Association of Manufacturers (see BUSINESS), nevertheless hinted that corporation taxes, if not taxes on big personal incomes, would have...
...National Association of Manufacturers, gathered for their annual convention in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel last week, felt like small boys worrying about a trip to the woodshed. None knew how vindictive or friendly toward business the Truman Administration would be. But Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer would tell them; he was due to give a speech which President Truman had read and approved...
Just the sight of Sawyer in the glittering banquet hall made the N.A.M.s feel better. With his grey hair, rimless spectacles and prim manners he looked exactly like the businessman he once was. When Earl Bunting, N.A.M. chairman, introduced him as "a fellow whose mother probably called him Charlie," Sawyer smilingly set him straight: "My mother called me Charles...
From then on, it was plain that Sawyer had come to extend the hand of fellowship to businessmen. Though the talk was vague on taxes, controls, etc., Sawyer hoped for "a new philosophy of cooperation that will unite Americans ... to make the greatest use of our energies and our resources...
...Said Sawyer: "I am a believer in private enterprise . . . Government officials should remember that businessmen are working for profits. Profit... is the ignition system of our economic engine. The importance of profit must be recognized and utilized. Government should assume that businessmen are honest and have the welfare of the country at heart. Many people are inclined to think that businessmen are tough, selfish and hardboiled. In my experience, I have found them to be no more tough and selfish than any other group...