Word: branch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent statement to the CRIMSON, Dean Baker of the Business School emphasizes the fact that the institution does not train men in the practical side of business. Its fifty odd courses aim rather to give a fundamental approach to business problems which will help an individual in whatever branch he takes...
...that the real basis of the loans be character and past earning power, thus qualifying a vast number of unemployed, and that each branch have an employment agency. Planner Morris, who collects American antiques and champion Leghorn chickens, was simply advocating what few serious economists have dared to suggest: opening the till of government credit to the consumer. Every single governmental attempt to prime the business pump throughout four years of Depression has been one indirect method or another of easing credit to producers. The Governor of Georgia urged that Army planes scatter greenbacks over the land but no serious...
...another meeting on the Widener steps, timed so that the participants can fall in behind the Cadets as they march to the Stadium; the Liberal Club members, a score or more strong, will swing along behind the West Pointers heckling and harrying them, and otherwise waving the olive branch. Permission to do this was to be requested of President Conant; he could not be reached, and Mr. Luce refused official approval, at least for a meeting at a time when the Cadets were on the march. The Club, however, has voted to carry out its plan whether authorized...
...States." The awards, which carry a stipend of 500 pounds, entitles the holder to a year's study at Oxford or Cambridge University; while similar awards in Great Britain enable the holder to study at either Harvard or Yale University. Candidates must submit evidence of distinction in some recognized branch of learning, and at the same time, must present a definite scheme of study or research to be carried out, while only students who are prepared to give their whole time to study are considered...
...number of Chase's vice presidents to the stand and, more interesting, produced their candid correspondence with one another, procured from the Chase's letter files. One letter told that Jose ("Wood Louse") Obregon, son-in-law of President Machado hired by Chase's Havana branch (at $19,000 a year), had turned out to be absolutely useless for any purpose except entertaining clients; that Machado had used up $9,000,000 of a $12,000,000 pension trust fund. Other letters declared that $18,000,000 had been spent unnecessarily in rebuilding the Cuban Cap itol...