Word: augusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...centennial was celebrated on September 8, 1836. In those days College opened on the last Wednesday in August, and the Corporation probably did not wish to break up term with a celebration. At the close of the bicentennial exercises in the Yard, on the motion of Josiah Quincy of the Class of 1821, it was voted, "that this assembly of the Alumni be adjourned to meet at this place on the 8th of September...
Reason for these rumors and the attendant stock decline was not widely known outside Wall Street. September cigaret consumption was 3.9% below that of September 1931, but fewer cigarets have been smoked this year than every month last year except August, and September's showing was better than the nine-month average, which was 10.12% below 1931's. Careful readers of financial pages could find an occasional paragraph tucked away in a corner reporting the price rumors and citing the popularity of cigarets as the cause, but newspapers were not inclined to go deeply into the subject...
...Wood'' Axton. He launched an advertising campaign, which has grown with Spud sales. Last year Axton-Fisher spent $550,000 advertising Spuds, made a net profit of $605,000. This year the profit has jumped month by month was $56,000 in July, $123,000 in August, $238,000 in September. Last week Axton-Fisher stock rose 8¼ points to 56¼ while other tobacco stocks were falling...
...special emergency session to start January 30, 1933, and continue to August 16, is being announced today by the Graduate School of Business Administration. This action was taken in view of the unemployment of a large number of young executives, who have lost their positions. W. S. Gifford '04, J. I. Straus '93, and George Whitney '07, in recommending the plan, pointed out that the school's facilities for constructive business training must be made available this winter as a substitute for the demoralizing effect of waiting for jobs...
...response to recommendation from a few business leaders, Dean Donham of the Harvard Business School has announced a special session for business executives and college graduates who are now unemployed. Concentrated into the short term from January to August will be the whole of the Business School's first year course; men who have passed it may enter the second year course next year. By shortening the period of time, the cost of board and room are reduced to a minimum...