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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...requires certain very definite characteristics in the way of background, education, and training, most of which most Harvard men may be assumed to possess. The technical requirements at the start are nil; a man entering the field can learn whatever is required of him, and as he progresses, his actual knowledge of investments will increase in direct proportion to the amount of effort he puts into learning his subject. Above all, a certain intelligence, ability to master a subject and the ability to inspire confidence based on knowledge of the subject, are the primary requisites...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Business World | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

When the Norwegian Government provided unlimited beer and unstinted sausages, the hilarity of the occasion became marked, though dependable, philosophical Norwegian temperaments precluded the occurrence of actual riots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORWAY: Royal Wedding | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...about 105,000 barrels. They put into Producer Slick's pocket between $50,000 and $60,000 per day. Reports from Tulsa put the sale price at $40,000,000; but Prairie Chairman-of-the-Board W. S. Fitzpatrick said it was less, while refusing to give actual figures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Slick Sells | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...Traffic Department handles the operation of this material; the actual work of calls; supervision of telephone operators, which again is sub-divided into local, toll, and long distance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Business World | 3/19/1929 | See Source »

...defense has told as convincingly as Jeanne Eagels how she fired the shot that saved her virtue. None has begun her testimony with a more positive knowledge of her guilt fixed in the minds of the audience, which has seen her a minute before, transformed with fury, committing the actual murder. Rather an effective contralto phonograph record than a moving picture, the film follows the construction of Somerset Maugham's short story, a successful legitimate play last year, about the temptations of white people in Singapore. Best shot: A battle between a mongoose and a cobra. (Originally released...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Mar. 18, 1929 | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

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