Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Plans are now under way to include pictures and biographies of the entire teaching staff and student body in the album scheduled to appear late in November. Brief paragraphs on each graduate will contain his college, fraternity, and local activities...
...blanks given to Yardlings to fill out were pertinent questions about the values, if any, of the faculty advisers for yearlings. In a brief introductory note, the editors of the publication advocated that Seniors be employed, receiving remuneration, to take the place of faculty men in advisory capacities...
Finally Mr. Ball decided it was time to pass out a brief statement: "George A. Ball today announces the sale by the George & Frances Ball Foundation to Robert R. Young of New York, Allan P. Kirby of Wilkes-Barre, Pa. and Frank F. Kolbe of New York, of its Alleghany Corp. securities held by Midamerica Corp. and its interest in the Cleveland real estate. . . . He is impressed with the sense of public responsibility possessed by these gentlemen...
...hope of realizing gross profits of 2½% or less and now quoted at 5 to 10 points below their offering prices. ... In other words the profits are limited but the losses are not."As for criticism of banker directors, Banker Hall was frankly "puzzled." He held no brief for greedy managements or "corporate kidnapping." But he had found from experience that the "majority of companies are governed with a conscientious desire to do the right thing for the companies' best interest." If there were a couple of bankers on a board, he could not believe that they could...
Professors have always been a byword and a hissing to Wall Street, and-except for their late brief heyday-not too highly regarded in Washington. But in 1932 appeared a book by a professor, and a Spaniard at that, which was read with respect by brokers and Senators alike. The Revolt oj the Masses (TIME, Sept. 19, 1932) was one of those surprise best-sellers which was not aimed at the large depression-chastened audience it found. That book established Professor José Ortega y Gasset in the U. S. consciousness as an original and forceful thinker-about-civilization. Last...