Word: francisco
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Athearn, manager of the Southern Pacific Bureau of Economics in San Francisco, will deliver a lecture on "The Work of the Bureau of Economics," in Emerson H, today at 2.30 o'clock, under the auspices of the Graduate School of Business Administration. Mr. Athern is in charge of the selection and training of student apprentices, who are given a four year's course embracing instruction and actual experience in every branch of the operating department of the Harriman lines, with the idea of developing a small corps of broadly trained college men from which to draw for the subordinate official...
...Lecture on "The Work of the Bureau of Economics," by Mr. F. G. Athearn, Manager of the Bureau of Economics of Southern Pacific Company, San Francisco, Cal., in Room H, of Emerson Hall...
...Athearn, manager of the Southern Pacific's Bureau of Economics in San Francisco, will lecture under the auspices of the Business School in Emerson H, tomorrow afternoon, at 2.30 o'clock...
...Steffens pointed out that the problem of graft was the same in cities, states, or countries. Germany and England have advanced a great deal further in regard to checking graft than the United States and France. What has been done in Berlin certainly ought to be done in San Francisco, and there is absolutely no reason why it cannot be done. The trouble in this country is that there is a general fight against the labor problem instead of a desire to solve it. If America would become less pugilistic and more analytic there is no doubt but that...
...regard to detective work in general. To be a successful detective requires nothing more than good, common sense coupled with persistence and resourcefulness. The greatest drawback to the profession is rampant dishonesty, the readiness of the operatives to "sell out," as Mr. Burns expressed it. In the San Francisco graft investigation where implicit trust in his co-workers was imperative, Mr. Burns employed Stanford University students...