Word: babsonisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your very gracious reference to me in TIME [June 4] . leads me to make one correction concerning the list of 50 [leading! men named by Roger Babson and not by J. W. Gerard. It was printed in the American Magazine for March...
...Babson submitted the six questions...
...Oberlin, Ohio, at a meeting of the General Council of the Congregational and Christian Churches, devout Statistician Roger Ward Babson presented results of his four-year study of church attendance. In 1,000 Congregational churches, said he, pews were 70% vacant. Only 42% of the communicants supported their churches by attendance or otherwise. Attendance varies inversely with the size of communities, the urban Eastern States averaging the lowest (36%) and the rural Southeastern States the highest...
...that at a somewhat later date the Wells-Fargo Co. paid the Pony Express the sum of $7.38 in cash, and a keg of Jamaica rum, to refrain from bidding on the Government contract to carry mail from St. Louis to Fort Leavenworth.' " BUSINESS HAS MINUS TROUBLE Babson Sees Industry Going Forward- Declares It Is Merely Non-Plussed I. B. M. ADDS TO LINE "International Business Machine has announced the addition to its line of an automatic letter filing case, developed to meet the needs of public utility holding companies. This file, which will be known by the trade...
...clock tonight the Junior Varsity basketball team will play the Babson Institute of Wellesley in the Indoor Athletic Building. The Harvard lineup will be: Adzigian, if; Tatelman, rf; Graff, c; Bates, lg; Kollinites...