Word: donham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meeting held last night in the Baker Memorial Library, President Conant welcomed the incoming class of the Harvard Business School. He was preceded in speaking by Dean Donham, who dwelt on the cultural background and social contacts that the tradition and national character of Harvard offer...
...broke through the screen of rumor. He had withdrawn gold before the bank holiday, not for his personal account, but as president of Chatham Water Co., to protect a construction contract which the company had undertaken. He redeposited the gold immediately after the bank holiday ended. Dean Wallace Brett Donham of the Business School criticized his act as having made the School subject to possible public criticism, objected to his criticisms of Administration policies. Hence Dr. Dewing's resignation. Since Dr. Dewing was guilty of no lawless hoarding, some alumni of the Business School were eager to raise...
...Donham '98, dean of the Business School, was disclosed yesterday in the course of the Senate banking inquiry as a privileged purchaser of 1000 shares of "Standard Brands Inc." stock from J. P. Morgan. & Co. in July, 1929. Among the other renames on the Morgan "favored list" were those of T. N. Perkins '91, Fellow of Harvard College and the late Calvin Coolidge...
Speaking on business conditions in the past, Donham asserted that continuance for three months of what was going on before Roosevelt came in, would have brought on some sort of social revolution to destroy the present order. The job the present administration has done, on the other hand, is "perfectly amazing...
Pleading for a wide-range view in dealing with present problems, Donham specified the Secretary of State and his advisers as studying only one special group of problems without paying any attention to coordination. The Securities Control bill, for instance, follows the natural reaction to hunt for somebody responsible for the depression, according to the Dean. "Instead of allowing control to be the tool in the hands of the blackmailer, we should attempt a reasonable publicity bill...