When Ernst & Young, UBS, and Arthur Anderson were founded around 1903:
.. America was facing its 6th and 3rd worst market crashes of the 20th century
.. the Trans-Siberian railroad was under construction
.. Herman Hollerith’s global monopoly (later called NCR, and then IBM) had just finished its first major overseas census organized for the brutal regime of Czar Nicholas which was the first ever census of 120 million potential Trans-Siberian Railroad workers
.. Winston Churchill wasn’t yet aware that nobody in the House of Windsor spoke English
.. Winston Churchill wasn’t aware that the House of Windsor went by the name of House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
.. Herbert Hoover was trying to “democratize China” as an engineer for the Chinese Bureau Of Mines (and you thought globalization was a “new reality”?)
.. corporate management negotiated labor problems by killing the workers (and then the Wall Street Journal would ask: “Where is the labor movement?)
.. GE dropped the name Edison and was preparing America for outsourcing by constructing a hydroelectric plant.. in India
.. the Wright brothers made the first engine-powered flight
.. Henry Ford introduced the Model T
.. Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis pretended to fine Standard Oil of Indiana for accepting illegal rebates of oil from the Chicago and Alton Railroad
.. Theodore Roosevelt made one of the earliest political calls for universal health care
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