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...Hong Kong ricksha boy or postcard vendor to name the biggest, busiest, most beneficent U.S. corpora tion, and chances are that he'll answer chop-chop. General Motors...
...Morgan & Co. will not be commercial bankers in any ordinary sense. Their clients will be, as they always have been, an imposing roster of big corpora tions, big businessmen, foreign govern ments. Without the securities business the Morgan bank will be not unlike Manhattan's First National, which is currently much perturbed by the old but false re port that it scorns accounts of less than $100,000. In size it will rank among the first ten in New York. Its 1932 balance sheet, as dug out by the Senate Commit tee, revealed deposits of $340,000.000, as sets...
...divorce completely the Board and the Corporation. "Let the Board confine itself to its regulative duties," he said. "Let it lay down general policies, but place the entire business of operating the Government fleet, of carrying out the assigned policy, entirely in the hands of the Corpora-tion." The argument for this arrangement is that the Board is not the kind of organization efficiently to operate a large business. Its seven members are by law chosen geographically to represent all parts of the country. Advocates of separation assert that the Board is political, whereas the operation should be placed entirely...
...official and self-constituted advisers to do is to acquaint him with the value of a liberal education, both in itself and as a means to other ends. This is done by a variety of methods, chief among which is an exaltation of the theory of "mens sana in corpora sane", and a reduction of the learning process to a series of wholly mechanical formulae the passing of so many examinations equals a bachelor's degree...
Died: Leonard R. Steel, 45, of Buffalo, of cerebral hemorrhage, while on a train near Toledo. He was the founder of the L. R. Steel corpora- tions which went into the hands of the receiver on March...