Word: selekman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moratorium on "hates" between Americans, particularly those involving capital and labor, was urged as vital to the war effort by Dr. Benjamin M. Selekman, associate professor at the Business School, in the most recent issue of the Harvard Business Review...
Referring to two recent smear attacks, that against labor's 40-hour week and Standard Oil's prewar cartel agreement with German collaborators, Dr. Selekman contended that in both cases the real issues involved were obscured by "wrenching them out of their historic context and plunging them into the tense emotional atmosphere...
Making no attempt to resolve the pros and cons of the two controversies, Dr. Selekman pointed out that the problems of the shorter work-week and patent rights both are aspects of long term developments in the United States. The trend toward shorter hours, he said, goes back to the nineteenth century beginnings of the industrial revolution, and the issues raised by patent pools and monopolies are a part of the American trust breaking tradition that extends unbroken from the days of President Andrew Jackson to Thurman Arnold...
Therefore, Dr. Selekman said, "To proved relatively easy because three months of our active participation in the war has been crowded with bitter defeats. evoke such old resentments once more -despite the urgent demands for unity...
Benjamin M. Selekman, formerly a lecturer on Urban Industrial Problems, has become, effective July 1, an associate professor of Business Administration...