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Within twenty-four hours of its escaping his lips, the phrase had become one of the great public relations disasters in American business history and appeared on the front page of hundreds of newspapers.
Signature. William Henry Vanderbilt (May 8, 1821 – December 8, 1885) was an American businessman and philanthropist. [1] Known as "Billy," he was the eldest son of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, an heir to his fortune and a prominent member of the Vanderbilt family. Vanderbilt became the richest American after he took over his father's ...
- Columbia College (1841)
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Definition of publish and be damned in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
6 de nov. de 2022 · Disputed. The public be damned! Attributed remark to a reporter during a visit to Chicago, promptly denied by Vanderbilt. Descriptions of the context and circumstances vary widely, although most accounts agree that he was asked whether he ran an unprofitable train for the public's benefit.
"public be damned." On Sunday afternoon, 8 October 1882, as a New York Central Railroad train bearing W. H. Vanderbilt, president of the railroad, approached Chicago, two newspaper reporters boarded the train and interviewed Vanderbilt on various aspects of the railroad industry.
27 de may. de 2013 · In a column titled “The Public Be Damned,” accompanied by a photo of a smiling, bald-headed economist, Friedman argued that the attitude expressed in that title, far from being businessmen’s attitude toward the public, is actually the attitude of the U.S. Post Office.
Publish and be damned. The coining of this expression is attributed to Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington (1769-1852) who directed it at Harriette Wilson, one of his many mistresses, when she threatened to publish her diary and some of the Duke’s letters.
