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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beginning of all financial wisdom lies in correct and timely figures. Because in a bear market investors see their mistakes rudely brought to light, they become more appreciative of the need of statistics. Hence to statistical organizations 1930 brought no dearth of business. Last week when the biggest of these organizations in the world, Standard Statistics Co., Inc., prepared to move into eight floors of a new building in Manhattan, it boasted more than 1,200 employes, a gain of 45% in one year, and was glad that its increase in business was 66% over the increase of a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Statistics | 2/9/1931 | See Source »

Undoubtedly the most drastic and courageous step so far taken by any college in the United States to correct objectionable features connected with intercollegiate athletics is that just announced by the University of Pennsylvania. After a searching investigation of conditions, it has abolished such things as spring and pre-season football practice, the training table, the use of the training house as a dormitory for athletes, and the giving of scholarship aid for anything but scholastic standing...

Author: By Christian SCIENCE Monitor., | Title: "Tested and Approved By..." | 2/6/1931 | See Source »

This report may appear to some destructive and not constructive, since many Americans doubtless feel that any other system is better than the present. But on the other hand, the findings, if correct, may be of great benefit. Like the Wickersham Report they make it less difficult to think clearly on the Prohibition subject. As is illustrated by the pamphlet mentioned above, many we reformers have been setting the British system up as the solution to America's most virus problem. It substantiated with the elements of truth, the results of this research discredit the English type of Houor regulation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BETTER 'OLE | 2/6/1931 | See Source »

...seem to be achieving the popular education in music that they set as one of their chief goals. At a local movie house the other night there was a waiting line, and as several hundred people stood about, somebody started to whistle. He rendered the "Arlesienne" Suite of Bizet, correct as to all its tricky intricacies. Somebody responded with the third movement of the Beethoven Fifth. Presently there was a lusty twittering all through the lobby: one heard the Tschaikowsky Sixth, the "Meistersinger" Prelude, the Brahms Third, the Ravel Bolero, the Gershwin Concerio...

Author: By New YORK World, | Title: Try This on Your Whistle | 2/6/1931 | See Source »

...resolved to find self-expression and relaxation on a small farm bought for the purpose near Philadelphia. Dorn has always lived in Philadelphia; has more than often been bored there. His wife is clever, self-sufficient, politically-minded and not in love with him. His son, after a correct education, is started well with one of the smart brokerage firms of the city. His daughter has been married "brilliantly" to Prince Rezzonica and lives in Italy except for rare visits to America. The conditions seem ideal to Dorn for his move and he is about to get off when Delice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Burt Lecture | 2/2/1931 | See Source »

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