[5] A graduate of the Class of 1944, Arnold attended Worcester Academy for twelve months straight in order to join the U. S. Army in the Second World War.
[5] He joined Stride Rite in 1967 when it acquired a children's shoe company named Blue Star, when sales were $35 million a year.
[5] Hiatt pioneered socially conscious methods such as opening a company sponsored day care center in 1971, at a time when such a move was considered "radically countercultural.
The current campaign finance system forces good people to spend far too much time talking to narrow slices of our society and at the expense of focusing on the nation's business.
Even the most trusting among us must recognize the potentially corrupting incentives that this creates.Hiatt has urged passage of the Senate Fair Elections Now Act introduced by Senators Dick Durbin and Arlen Specter, which is a bipartisan proposal to raise a "large number of small donations to show their credibility with the public" before qualifying for public funding for their campaigns.