Word: conductivity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attitude of Mr. Mitchell in the present situation occasions no surprise to me or to others who have been in close contact with him in the conduct of Governmental affairs. He is prone to treat every rumor or unsupported statement as true...
...Commerce & Labor. Year later Secretary Cortelyou resigned to become Chairman of the Republican National Committee, manager of President Roosevelt's 1904 campaign. Next he became Postmaster General and, finally, Secretary of the Treasury. In that post he won the confidence and admiration of businessmen by his cool conduct during the panic of 1907. When President Taft took office, the only man ever to hold three Cabinet posts resigned from the Treasury, dropped out of public life...
With philosophers who assume that man is motivated by reason Pareto had little patience, devoted much of his work to analysis of non-logical conduct, proposed to consider unscientific or illogical beliefs held by large numbers of people as social facts, of equal validity with facts established by scientific experiments. With but a small fraction of man's activity carried on in the light of actual conditions, most of his behavior has been dictated by irrational impulses to which Pareto gave the name "residues." In many instances complexes of feeling, instincts, "residues" persist from one age to another, while...
...Unite" by Handel has been added as the closing selection for the final program of Yard concerts to be sung tomorrow evening by the Glee Club. "Three Love Songs" by Brahms has also been added as the second piece. William G. Kirby '35, president of the club, will conduct...
Exactly how Women Investors, Inc. was going to accomplish all this, it would not say last week. It was not going to give investment advice to women.* It was not going to conduct a woman's lobby in Washington, at least for the present. But it was going after membership. Proof of this fact was the Organizing Committee whose most prominent member is Mrs. Hortense Odium, president of Manhattan's Bonwit, Teller & Co. (clothes), wife of Investment Truster Floyd B. Odium of Atlas Corp. Legal counsellor is Mrs. Jean Nelson Penfield, New York attorney and onetime suffragette. National...