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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From poor beginnings, with only a grammar school training, Banker Mount worked himself up in 15 years to a president-&-cashier's job in the Oakland Bank. There Banker Giannini discovered him in 1921, plucking him out to make him head of the Oakland branch of Bank of Italy (now Bank of America, N. T. & S. A.), the Giannini bank. Impressed by this hardheaded, hard-working young man, Banker Giannini later took him to his head office in San Francisco, shortly made him big Bank of Italy's president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: San Francisco Feud | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

...prospective earning power of the Class of 1936. As a group, this year's 141,000 college graduates will work 40 years, make $27,000,000,000. Each will earn $194,000, as compared to $88,000 life earnings for high-school graduates, $64,000 for grammar-school graduates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Safe & Profitable | 6/29/1936 | See Source »

...that radical London paper, but I regret that I am not one as I would have loved to rub the bones of the reporter who invented that stupid story. Thank you for your correction and I wish to assure you of my gratitude. CONST. N. COTOLAN School teacher and Grammar school supervisor Dragoslavele, Muscel, Rumania...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 15, 1936 | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

...Being shrouded with political discussions and presenting easy grammar works, the class meetings of French C (French 1) have been discounted by most students, who feel they can learn as much actual French without class attendance. This is unfortunate because French C embraces the material of the language that can be both instructive and interesting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Excerpts From Text of 1939 Committee Report; Deal With Curriculum Reforms | 5/22/1936 | See Source »

...therefor recommend that the present arrangement of one meeting a week for attention to grammar and two meetings for reading the maintained, but that the grammar which is presented be more advanced so that there will be instructive value to the grammar lessons. To insure the proper concentration on the part of the students, we further recommend that grammar tests be given in French C every other week in the same manner that the occasional reading examinations are now presented...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Excerpts From Text of 1939 Committee Report; Deal With Curriculum Reforms | 5/22/1936 | See Source »

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