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...have appeared last week that the nation was in lamentable condition. During the first three weeks of 1937 when Boom was in the air President Roosevelt saw about a half dozen businessmen. Since the turn of this year he has talked with more than 100. The White House calling list may not be a very reliable index of business activity but it is-at the moment at least-a sensitive index of business sentiment. For the eagerness of businessmen to see the President, and more particularly the President's willingness to see them, could reflect only profound concern over...
...paid through the Park Service. For three-and-a-half years Clerk Stitely led a more abundant life, collected 1,116 checks totaling $84,000. Once, in a burst of generosity, he gave two of his imaginary foremen raises. Now & then he put one of them on the sick list...
...TIME, Oct. 11), which has been sending monthly bulletins to educators, publicists, editors and others, telling how to detect propaganda, denned as "expression of opinion or action deliberately designed to influence opinions or actions of others with reference to predetermined private ends." Edward Bernays sent to his own mailing list, covering the same groups, a broadside "to dissipate any public hope for important accomplishment" by Mr. Miller's Institute...
...making safety valves, pressure gauges, industrial thermometers and other industrial control equipment in Bridgeport and Boston, but it was selling 80% of its products to only 100 customers. By 1937 it multiplied the number of its customers 40 times by the simple expedient of expanding its list of products, a plan followed so thoroughly that 70% of last year's $10,000,000 business was in products such as Hancock Bronze Valves, Consolidated Power Control Valves, and Hancock Turbo-Injectors, which the company was not making...
Modern U. S. social workers play up environment, play down inheritance. But they still believe as strongly as Victorians in the therapeutic value of good reading. Last week New York's Mayor Fiorella LaGuardia issued an annotated list-of 277 books, grouped according to school grades, to be read in future by children whose misdeeds land them in the New York City Children's Court. Costing about $390, the full library contains 19 fairy stories, 81 adventure tales, 85 biographies of human and animal heroes, miscellaneous books on civics, history, hobbies, religion, etiquette. The list contains such...