Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died: James M. and Jesse A. Ide, pioneer collar manufacturers, at Troy, N. Y. Both brothers died suddenly, within nine hours of each other, each without knowing of the other's illness...
Introducing his speech with the statement that he had come here to learn. Mr. Kerr said that in the course of his learning he had concluded that America was no longer the land of the pioneer. The people of the United States are not seeking land for settlement, nor are they seeking an increase in population through the channel of immigration. America is today approaching the same economic stage which England reached in 1840, when her manufactures surpassed her agricultural interests. Foreign trade will increasingly become the great interest of America...
...Mount Vernon Church, Boston, gave his second talk to members of the Freshman class yesterday evening at 7 o'clock in the Smith Halls Common Room. R. P. Bullard '24 led the singing which preceded the address. Dr. Lovett, who took for his text Kipling's poem "The Pioneer", emphasized the fact that the trouble today is that we have dared to stop thinking in our religious life. "There is no hypocrisy," he said, "greater than that of living in an age of material progress and at the same time existing in a religious stagnation...
...University bureau of business research, acting with the co-operation and financial assistance of the National Dry Goods Asociation, after a pioneer survey of doing business in department stores, has come to the conclusion that a read-justment of operating expenses is necessary to restore net profit to normal in this business. The average net profit realized in the department store trade in 1921 was 1.3 per cent, of net sales, which is considered too small. The bureau also discovered that a rapid rate of stock-turn is fully as important in department stores as in other businesses...
...turn in the tide. The "self-made man" of a generation ago, inevitably turning up in New York with a nickel in his pocket and emerging a "captain of industry," has passed off the stage along with the railroad empires of Harriman and Hill. That era was one of pioneer expansion, rapid transition, and adventurous growth; stimulating to speculation and the building up of great "get-rich-quick" fortunes by shrewd gamblers who rightly played their "hunches". In such a period the college man was out of the running. His four years of education were four years lost...