The History Behind Women Entering the Automation Workforce at IBMAs our research of Tom Watson Sr. enters the year 1944, we have updated the information of "firsts" for the women of IBM. World War II was raging in full in Europe and Asia. U.S. and Canadian IBM men and women were putting their lives on the line in both arenas and their spouses and children were doing their best to support them in the conflict back home. The struggle opened up opportunities for women and the timeline is now updated with a few new "firsts" we have discovered. Some were directed from headquarters. Some were taken by individual branch managers who seemed to have acted on Tom Watson's ideals of "THINK and ACT." One branch manager appears to have ensured that the company could keep servicing their customers. He sent women on service calls to repair his customers' hardware. The women came through! Select the image or link below to read about the "Women of IBM."
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A Review a Ray Stannard Baker's "Woodrow Wilson: Life and Letters" Volume VI.This is the third in a series of reviews of Ray Stannard Baker's "Woodrow Wilson: Life and Letters." Of the eight-volume biography of the former President of the United States, we have now read and reviewed three volumes:
“Mr. Baker is careful to show, he [Woodrow Wilson] was never a pacifist in the full sense of the term, and his ultimate entry into war was no inconsistency of principle. War was to him [Woodrow Wilson] a dire last resort to be avoided at almost any cost, and the tragic interest of this volume lies in the gradual closing round him of the facts and forces which made the keeping out [of World War I] impossible." IBM's 1943 World War II National War Bond AdvertisementsIn 1943, Thomas J. Watson Sr. and IBM ran well over 1,000 war-bond advertisements across the United States encouraging Americans to buy bonds to support the World War II war effort. This does not include an additional set of war-bond campaign advertisements that also ran across Canada. To convey the level of commitment of IBM and its chief executive officer to supporting their economic system of capitalism and their democratic political system, the six individual war-bond campaigns are listed below:
Select the image or the link below to read about these war-bond campaigns and the timing of their release. Woodrow Wilson Quotes from "Woodrow Wilson: Life and Letters."These are a few insights from Woodrow Wilson or about him by Ray Stannard Baker. Baker was Woodrow Wilson's biographer with complete, unhindered access to the former President's personal papers. These are from the the volume entitled: Woodrow Wilson: Life and Letters - "Facing War 1915-1917." "Do you know what is the hardest job in being President? ... It is the difficulty of keeping your temper." Woodrow Wilson, "The Break with Germany" "Woodrow Wilson presents in the deepening summer of 1916 the tragedy that so often accompanies the power and responsibility of great place: not only the loneliness, but the essential helplessness, of supreme leadership." Ray Stannard Baker on "The Emotions and Sympathies Aroused by the War" "Wilson's great power--and he knew it well--was in speaking to the people. Strange gift for the kind of man he really was: the scholar and thinker, intellectually sensitive and discriminating, hesitant in individual human contacts, he had yet a potent gift of popular leadership. He could be more intimate and confidential with five thousand people than with one. "His genius had in it far more of the gift of the poet and the prophet than that of the politician." Ray Stannard Baker on "Campaign and Election 1916"
Quotes from Famous Industrialists of the 20th CenturyThis page has a few quotes that readers probably haven't seen anywhere else. These quotes are documented with (1) the individual who said or wrote the memorable phrase and (2) the source to ensure accuracy and authenticity. Two quotes are included here. "The president who thinks that his company exists mainly to supply stock quotations is in exactly the same case with the workman who looks at his day's work not as a means of doing something, but as a means of getting money without exertion." Samuel Crowther, Common Sense and Labor, 1920 "Wealth can no more be safely created and permanently held by the mere shuffling of securities, than character can be created by shuffling cards." John Wanamaker, Wanamaker's Golden Jubilee, 1911 Follow the link or select the image to read more. |
Peter E. GreulichPeter E. has been studying IBM and early American corporate history since his retirement in 2011. These are his thoughts and musings, and of those whose biographies and autobiographies he has read with links to articles and book reviews on this website. Contact the author directly.
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