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...Borne out by the fact that the banking com munity in general and Secretary of the Treasury Mellon originally opposed the capital gains and losses section...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Now It Is Told | 6/5/1933 | See Source »

...theory that a sincere national movement should enlist young blood to carry it through the years, and that it would excite U. S. schoolboys to be associated, even remotely, with characters like Gene Tunney (retired), Barry Wood (Harvard) and Mai Stevens (Yale), Com-mander Fred G. Clark of the Crusaders last week paid a visit to Lawrenceville School. Headmaster Mather Almon Abbott, bluff and hearty, was glad to call his boys together to hear Crusader Clark's story ^that the Crusaders were going to start a Junior Division and had picked Lawrenceville to be, among...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Junior Battalion | 5/15/1933 | See Source »

...about present-day Cuba treads delicately among the thorny implications of Cuban politics and calls no grave-digging spade by its right name. Sinister echoes of U. S. big business, of Havana terrorism, are felt only in the background of this pastoral tale of Cuban peasantry. Variously and wildly com- pared to the work of Thornton Wilder, Norman Douglas, Willa Cather, Author Wright's first novel needs no such gaudy bush: to plain palates it will taste like a good, sun-ripened vin du pays. Now an English instructor at his alma mater Haverford College, Author Wright (real name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cuba Libre | 5/8/1933 | See Source »

...week came the announcement of a preliminary agreement between Sir John and Persia's Shah: Anglo-Persian will in future pay the Persian Government 21% royalties instead of 16% and will turn over 2½% of the profits of its subsidiaries. Persia on its part will grant the com pany a 60-year concession for the exclusive exploitation of untouched North Per sian oilfields and extension of the present concession for the same length of time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSIA: Petrol Diplomat | 5/1/1933 | See Source »

...Paul Revere. Back in 1907 its presses hummed night & day-printing clearing house certificates. And though printing engraved certificates is a slow and delicate process. Bank Note's skilled em-ployes (some of them representing the fifth generation with the company) had presses rolling in short order while com-pany police guarded outside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Money & People | 3/13/1933 | See Source »

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