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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Economics, in an article on "The Farmers' Banking System: Four Years of FCA Operations." Charles C. Abbott '28, instructor in Economics, deals with "The Government Corporation as an Economic Institution", a subject about which little has been written. Finally, among articles discoursing on business and the government, Thomas N. Whitehead, assistant professor of Business, comments upon the importance of the presidential election in the United States. He regards the election as reflecting an underlying social and economic change evident in other countries as well as this...
Last week the usually careful New York Times printed a report from Camden, N. J., just across the Delaware from Philadelphia, that Curtis had made an offer to buy Camden's $10,000,000 City Hall. Fortnight earlier had come rumors from Philadelphia of a poll of 16,800 Curtis stockholders. From $6,000 in 1934, Pennsylvania had upped its taxes on Curtis Publishing Co. to $716,000 in 1936, rumored a levy of $1,800,000 in 1937. Delaware and New Jersey were mentioned as new home States for Curtis. There taxes would be around...
Laymen who hear scientists indulging in polysyllabic shop talk are likely to regard them as cloistered visionaries who pay scant attention to what is going on in the workaday world. Last week, however, a bevy of savants approaching Chapel Hill, N. C., showed that they at least glance at the front pages of their newspapers. The American Chemical Society was holding a convention at the University of North Carolina. The chemists detrained at Durham, where arrangements had been made to convey them by bus the twelve miles to Chapel Hill. In the line of special busses waiting at the Durham...
...recapitulation of results obtained years ago by England's Psychic Investigator G. N. Tyrrell, it appeared that one subject, guessing which one of five lights in closed boxes was shining, frequently chose the right box before the light was turned...
...costing 15?), the idea of deposit insurance being thoroughly obnoxious to them. Once the bankers had the plaques, however, the idea of having them taken away seemed even more obnoxious. Until last week none had been withdrawn. Then Chairman Leo T. Crowley of FDIC announced that North Bergen (N. J.) Trust Co. would lose its plaque May 1. Reasons: operating with impaired capital, lending in excess of the legal limit, unwarranted concentration of loans, extension of credit to people and companies in which the bank's principal stockholders were interested. "It was also found," said FDIC, "that the management...