| Edmund Wilson - 1999 - 254 páginas
...seem, news to Wilson, who announced that no alarm need be felt, since "for years" he had "thought that what was good for our country was good for General Motors and vice versa"; but he was obliged to go through the forms of getting rid of his General Motors stock. There is, also,... | |
| Douglas T. Miller, Marion Nowak - 1977 - 484 páginas
...Defense, Charles Wilson, then president of General Motors, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that "what was good for our country was good for General Motors and vice versa." In 1953, Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks assured the annual gathering of the National Association... | |
| George A. Akerlof - 1984 - 210 páginas
...loyalties is reflected in the statement of President Eisenhower's defense secretary: "For years I have thought what was good for our country was good for General Motors and vice versa" (New York Times, 1954); likewise it is reflected in the college song which ends "for God, for country,... | |
| John P. Diggins - 1988 - 404 páginas
...he had not come to Washington "to run a country store." Wilson also testified before Congress that "What was good for our country was good for General Motors, and vice versa," a gaffe that Democrats exploited time and again to imply that industry would run government for its... | |
| Holmes Rolston - 2012 - 408 páginas
...5. See Time, 6 October 1961, p. 24. More accurately, Wilson once reported, "For years I thought that what was good for our country was good for General Motors, and vice versa." 6. Garrett Hardin, "The Tragedy of the Commons," Science 162 (1968): 1243-48. 7. David Burnham, "The... | |
| Steven O'Brien - 1991 - 500 páginas
...make a decision that was good for the United States but bad for General Motors, he replied: "Yes, sir, I could. I cannot conceive of one because for years...country was good for General Motors, and vice versa." With the Korean War concluded, Wilson's primary task was the politically unrewarding one of cutting... | |
| United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee - 1991 - 188 páginas
...United States that was adverse 10 the interest of GM, but that such a conflict would never arise because "what was good for our country was good for General...versa. The difference did not exist. Our company. ..goes wiih the welfare of ihe country." However dubious this statement might have appeared in 1953,... | |
| M. G. Lay - 1999 - 428 páginas
...employee Charles Wilson, when he expressed the opinion to a Senate Armed Services Committee in 1953 that "what was good for our country was good for General Motors, and vice versa." Indeed, for many years the seven largest companies in the United States — General Motors, Standard... | |
| Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 páginas
...US Señale committee, Jan 1953. The statemenl as reported by ihe New York Times (24 Feb. 1953) was. 'For years I thought what was good for our country...versa. The difference did not exist. Our company is loo big. It goes with the welfare of ihe country." The Democrats on the committee, who were in a majority,... | |
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