Word: wald
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...impeaching Mr. Nixon," Wald told the audience, "but only as a step, I would even say a small step, to the changes we need in this country. Mr. Nixon isn't the master, he's the servant--he's serving the same clients as when just before he became president he was a corporation lawyer in the same firm that employed Mr. Mitchell...
...Wald said he thinks Nixon may have outlived his usefulness to these clients, who he said may now be prepared to accept his replacement by Vice President Gerald R. Ford--who, he said, "sure has been a faithful servant of the corporate state...
...Nixon may go down," Wald said. "The corporate world is doing fine. The New York Times makes it easy--it comes in sections. First, I read the first section. That's got the news--it's almost all bad. And then I open the second section and look at the financial pages...
...goodness!" Wald continued. "One is in a different world. They've never had it so good." Wald cited large increases in oil companies' profits in 1972, and a 10.9 per cent increase in General Motors' "very clean old men" directors who, he said, nevertheless claim to be "doing poorly...
...Wald also denounced corporations for paying taxes he described as minuscule, for carrying industrial espionage to lengths he characterized as "murder," and for helping to induce the U.S. government "to supply arms and all other kinds of aid to the torturers, the murderers" in such countries as Chile, the Philippines, and South Vietnam...