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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...main questions outstanding are a settlement of the insurance question for the Smyrna fire and the settlement of the method of paying the Ottoman debt−France at present demanding gold, Turkey offering paper money...
Some time ago the Captain of the Hatteras died at sea; there was no bible aboard and the proper service had to be supplied by wireless. Thereupon the Bible Society placed bibles in the main cabins of all Shipping Board ships. Then it was learned that the stewards and sailors did not have access to these bibles. Hence the Society's new effort...
...utilitarian-ethics-of doing right because it pays." So says The Colombian Review, referring to the not infrequent dishonesty of representatives of U. S. firms in Colombia and other Latin American countries. The animadversion is principally upon the misrepresentations in which United States representatives are said to indulge. The main points: samples shown, different goods delivered; promises given to send goods of a better quality, bad goods sent; goods sold which the firm does not handle, goods " practically the same " or " just as good " sent; goods not sent in parcels of the correct size; no attention paid to wrapping them...
...South, much of the smaller banks' income has always been derived from changes upon checks entrusted to it for collection. One of the main aims of the Federal Reserve system has always been to eliminate such tariffs, and to establish a uniform practice throughout the country of clearing all checks at par as far as possible. The tenacity with which the Southern bankers have clung to their collection charges for out-of-town exchange has provided most of the protest against the Reserve system below the Mason and Dixon line. Such charges have proved, however, a burden...
...what is true of Harvard is, in the main, true of nearly all the colleges. The old prejudice against college men in business is vanishing. Every year there are more demands for men either with the special knowledge in a given field or with the mental training which is the product of the best college education. Many institutions turn more and more to "practical" education, heeding the dislike of business men for the "unessentials." Against this tendency some of the larger universities have steadily striven, holding that it is for the graduate schools to concentrate on "vocational" training, and that...