Word: fields
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...colleges was weightedly denounced. Walter Albert Jessup, president of the Carnegie Foundation, made this collegiate blackbirding the leading theme of his annual report. Dr. Jessup was astonished to discover that "drum majors and tuba players now find themselves possessed of special talents with a marketable value in the college field," that a college representative arriving at a high school learned he was the 83rd scout who had visited it that year. "In bidding for favor," scolded Dr. Jessup, "we are streamlining the job-our current models glitter with gadgets that smack of the factory and the salesman. . . . Cut rates, rebates...
...once united front against the Act no longer exists. Many realists in the field have taken a full measure of the Act and have concluded that they can and will live and prosper under it.... Yet I see these men under the whiphand of New York finance, paralyzed into inaction. I see realists chafing under the domination of these bankers who are forestalling them from moving forward to obtain equity money which the companies sorely need.... These are grave disappointments...
...last week Chicago newspapers received two publicity releases from Pressagent G. R. Schaeffer of Marshall Field & Co. One announced the promotion of Luther H. Hodges, an employe for 19 years, to the post of general manager of the manufacturing division. Said the other...
...Margeson, Jr. announced his resignation as vice president of Marshall Field & Co. and general manager of the manufacturing division, effective Jan. 31. He came with Marshall Field & Co. in November, 1935 at the request of Mr. James O. McKinsey when Mr. McKinsey became chairman of the board of directors. Plans of the present Corporate Management call for material changes from the program and organization conceived by Mr. McKinsey...
...managerial innards of Marshall Field & Co. have recently been revolving like a seasick stomach. An efficiency expert called in after Field had lost $13,200,000 in four years. Chairman McKinsey fired many an entrenched executive, hired many an outsider, lopped off Field's wholesale 'business and put the company-back into the black. Last November he suddenly died. Last week, having waited for official confirmation of many rumors that Field's was purging the McKinsey policies and people, the Chicago Journal of Commerce headlined the Margeson resignation announcement FIELD'S TO MAKE SWEEPING CHANGES...