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In 1887 it resulted in the creation of the Interstate Commerce Commission, the first federal regulatory agency. Even before Vanderbilt said it, an increasing number of Americans had come to feel that “the public be damned” was the universal motto of the railroad industry.
In 1883, reporter John Dickinson Sherman questioned him about why he ran the limited express train: "Do your limited express trains pay or do you run them for the accommodation of the public?" Vanderbilt responded with: "Accommodation of the public? The public be damned! We run them because we have to. They do not pay.
publish and be damned. /ˌpʌblɪʃ ən bi ˈdæmd/. /ˌpʌblɪʃ ən bi ˈdæmd/. a phrase meaning 'you can publish if you like, I don't care'. It is thought to have been used by the Duke of Wellington when he received threats that private details about him were going to be published.
"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.
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.
6 de nov. de 2022 · 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 película dirigida por Stanner E.V. Taylor y protagonizada por Mary Fuller, Charles Richman y Chester Barnett. Año: 1917. Sinopsis: Un prólogo muestra al administrador de alimentos de los Estados Unidos, Herbert Hoover, en su oficina y ofrece extractos de los discursos del Sr. Hoover. La historia comienza en el país cuando ...
