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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This year is the twenty-fourth year of the Graduate School of Business Administration. Seldom has the development of a Graduate School been more swift and sure. It was first among Business Schools requiring a college degree for entrance. It was first to develop fully, the "problem method" of instruction. Its purpose was to establish business as a profession, its ideal to replace the chance balances of social evolution by the intelligent control of man, the unthinking buccaneer by the socially responsible executive. These beginnings have been kept alive. In a business era of change in both ethics and practice...
...Shipping Board. It was not the first time, he declared, that I. M. M. had suffered grave injustice at the hands of the Government. Criticism of I. M. M. for owning foreign flag tonnage was unjustified; the company was entirely U. S.-controlled, anxious to spend more money to develop North Atlantic trade. Then Mr. Franklin revealed an astonishing fact. During the Wilson administration, he declared, his company received from a British syndicate an offer of $130,000,000 for I. M. M.'s foreign flag tonnage. The offer was accepted but papers had not been signed when President...
This year Jacob Fred Schoellkopf, Buffalo power and dye tycoon, contributed a gold medal, named for his late father, to honor important industrial research. First Schoellkopf medalist, named last week, is President Frank Jerome Tone, 63, of Carborundum Co., who helped develop that and other synthetic abrasives, who originated the first commercial process for producing silicon metal (used in electrical transformers, alloys, hydrogen manufacture), who possesses "to an unusual degree the rare combination of the qualities of the pure scientist, the plant engineer, and the successful business administrator." Graduates of Hill School and Cornell of six or seven years...
...half of the 1931 crop in return for a pledge that the South will plant no cotton in 1932. Within 48 hours the Board's "one-out-of-three" scheme was dead on its hands and the Board lapsed into a troubled silence. Meanwhile came two develop ments which boded ill for the Board's existence after the opening of Congress. Pennsylvania's Senator Reed drafted a bill, supposedly with some form of Ad ministration backing, to abolish the Board altogether. The potent American Farm Bureau Federation announced that, in its opinion, the Farm Board after...
Wichita is an excellent place for goiter experiment. The region was archaically the bottom of a sea. Its soil contains much iodine. Goiter is consequently rare. In that propitious environment he fed animals with food low in both iodine and calcium. The animals did not develop goiter. Instead, their thyroids atrophied. Then to iodine-deprived animals he gave large quantities of calcium-containing foods. At once they developed goiter...