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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard Economic Society, started ten years ago as the Committee on Economic Research, has come to occupy a significant although unobtrusive place among the university's diversified activities in the economic field. Directed by a board of trustees which brings together both professors in the Department of Economics and the Business School and representative men of affairs, the Society has done much to develop closer cooperation between the academic and the practical spheres of economic activity. Its "Review of Economic Statistics" and "Weekly Letter" enjoy a limited but ever-increasing circulation among business men who desire to have some greater...
Pierre Samuel duPont, board chair-man of E. I. duPont de Nemours & Co. (explosives, cellulose products), chairman of General Motors Corp., State Tax Commissioner of Delaware,* made known that he had bought a $250,000 pipe organ which will be brought in 14 freight cars this week to a specially constructed $750,000 building on his Kennett Square, Pa., estate where it will be played for him by Firman Swinnen, onetime Antwerp Cathedral organist...
...electing Dean Madden to the Presidency, the Board of Directors (of which, simultaneously, Dean Dexter Simpson Kimball of Cornell's Engineering College was elected Chairman) had followed an oldtime Alexander Hamilton tradition. It was Dean Joseph French Johnson of New York University's Commerce School who, 20 years ago. founded the Institute. The second. President, Jeremiah Whipple Jenks, who died two months ago, was a onetime N. Y. U. accounting professor. Many a N. Y. U. pedagog has written textbooks, broadcast charts for the 358,442 students and "old boys" of the Institute...
Publishers pay good money for memberships in the Associated Press. Newspaperdom is agreed that an A. P. franchise can be more or less definitely priced. But last week in Washington the Federal Board of Tax Appeals ruled that a press association membership has no definite value, is an "intangible asset." Intangible also, ruled the Board, are circulation and "good will...
...Said the Board of Tax Appeals: press membership, circulation and "good will," while "factors in the appraisement of the business as a whole," are not "susceptible of separate and independent valuations...