Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ferdinand Pecora, most brilliant lawyer of Italian extraction in the U. S., finished public schools at 12. At 18, after loping through his brother's law books, he was managing clerk of a law firm. Even on the most complex cases (which he, tireless, likes best) he never needs notes, never forgets a word of testimony once it is on the record. One of his most famed convictions was that of former New York State Superintendent of Banks Frank H. Warder for his part in the failure of Manhattan's City Trust...
...some one company and the scope of his most general thinking rarely ranges beyond production, sales, and finance. Yet it is a safe generalization that for all such companies no decision or series of decisions made by their chief executives affects their specialized interests so vitally as the complex social forces which make up this national and world-wide catastrophe. We need a new type of business executives, administrators with understanding of the complex organism which we refer to as civilization...
...pending merger is far more momentous than the Ludington-E. A. T. deal. It involves North American Aviation, Inc. (holding company for E. A. T.) and General Aviation Corp., which is 40% owned by General Motors. Together, their total assets are $25,000,000. Their holdings are complex...
...that this alumni fusion will facilitate important collective contributions to intellectual activity. Certainly thee is no other large body which, conceding the premises upon which American higher education is based, would be so well fitted as the vanguard for the ideas and the initiative which the problems of a complex society demand...
...burden of oldsters. Leading the list of men with diversified interests was, as usual, Banker Charles Hayden with 82 directorships. Albert Henry Wiggin and Matthew Chauncey Brush tied with 47. Alfred Emanuel Smith listed seven. Leading those who sit at boardroom tables of subsidiaries and affiliates within one complex industrial empire was Albert John County, vice president in charge of finance and corporate relations of the Pennsylvania R.R. with 121-down five from last year. Close behind was Henry Latham Doherty of Cities Service Co. with 114. Third, with 110, was Oilman Doherty's alter ego and legal prime...