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Haley Fiske, president of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. Samuel Harden Church, president...
Stanley Field of Marshall Field & Co...
Julius Rosenwald, chairman of the board of Sears, Roebuck & Co. of Chicago, was the object of Negro hallelujahs throughout the U. S. when the Negro Y. M. C. A. established in his honor an annual holiday called Julius Rosenwald Day. For Negro welfare, Mr. Rosenwald has given some...
...only the third richest nation when its total wealth is divided by its 118,000,000 inhabitants, according to new calculations of Redmond & Co., Manhattan investment house. Per capita wealth of New Zealand is $3,317.70; of Switzerland, $2,998.20; of the U. S., $2,941.90; of Rumania, $2,808.90. Poorest are Bulgaria, $403.10; Greece, $395.80; Soviet Russia...
Walter Sherman Gifford, president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co., wrote an article in the May Harper's showing why businessmen, as well as lawyers and physicians, prefer scholars. He cited a survey made by his own firm, in which it was found that "men from the first tenth of their college classes [equivalent of Phi Beta Kappa rank] have four times the chance of those from the lowest third to stand in the highest tenth salary group." He concluded: "While I do not believe that success in life can be rated by income, I do believe that...