Old Boys' Club Quotes
Allen was so audacious about his bribes that he had the CBC initials embroidered on red baseball hats and he, his fellow officers, and many Alaskan politicians actually wore the hats and joked about their bribe taking.
Morgan, one of the biggest industrialists in the nation, had been running vicious monopolies and trusts at a time when government regulation was a new concept. Morgan’s response was to have one of Roosevelt’s assistants make a deal with one of his assistants. He was shocked when Attorney General Knox said, “We don’t want it fixed up. We want to stop it.” They did. It was a watershed in government corporate regulation.
Her style of management was more mission focused than social. She did not try and play with the “old boys’ network” and although she was brilliant in her job and one of the few who tried to head off the Meltdown of 2008 and the Great Recession, she was not as influential among the old boys of the Washington Finance scene as she might have been.
