Category: Timeline Stories

The Senate Subcommittee on Multinational Corporations, headed by Idaho Sen. Frank Church, announces a closed-door meeting with United Brands and ...

The Journal runs a front-page article exposing bribery by United Brands in Honduras. Later that day, the SEC files a ...

The US State Department learns of an impending Wall Street Journal story detailing bribes paid by United Brands in Honduras. ...

The first session of the UN Commission on Transnational Corporations begins in New York, underscoring the unified vision of newly ...

The CAB commences enforcement actions against American Airlines and Braniff Airways related to allegations of bribery in the Middle East ...

President Richard M. Nixon greets schoolchildren during a stop on his 1972 reelection campaign. Credit: National Archives As an outgrowth ...

Sen. Frank Church during a hearing of the Senate Subcommittee on Multinational Corporations. Credit: Special Collections and Archives, Albertsons Library, ...

William M. Gingery, chief of enforcement for the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB), is found dead. His suicide note hints at ...

SEC investigator Ralph Ferrara meets with United Brands executives and begins to uncover bribes paid by the company to government ...

The Pan Am Building in Manhattan seen from Park Avenue in 1980. Five years earlier, United Brands CEO Eli Black ...