Word: portfolios
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...initial step to eliminate the artificial barriers created by the current system of numerous departments, Dr. Conant advocates a corps of "roving" professors unrestricted by departmental limits and petty duties. "Such professors without portfolio," he says, "would have o be recruited from scholars who had already proven their worth not only as productive thinkers but as stimulating personalities." Though Harvard by no means intends to de-emphasize the research which it must be the duty of every higher institution to promote, she nevertheless seems to be edging away from the professor who delves into research to the disadvantage...
...production to explosives at a moment's notice, and automobile manufacturers who can make armored cars and tanks, and even the owners of oil wells and wheat fields, which are no less essential in wartime? Speaking of this problem as it affects the investor who is looking over his portfolio of stocks, Mr. Callender says, "it is difficult to find an industry that would not in some way contribute to success in war, directly or indirectly; and there seems more idealism than logic in the attitude of those who would shun he making of bombs or shells or hand grenades...
...Mellon had twice sold stocks short-an entirely legitimate operation except that the Secretary of the Treasury was simultaneously trying to bolster a falling securities market. Private Secretary Johnson explained that, while they were not on deposit with his broker, Mr. Mellon held more than enough shares in his portfolio to cover his short position...
...these letters Soviet censors catch perhaps eight or nine out of every ten; but stupid, lenient or secretly anti-Red censors pass enough to make chronic malnutrition in the Soviet farm belt an imposing fact. For people who want to see starved and starving Russians, Cameraman Walker opened his portfolio last week. Samples...
Chamberlain of Birmingham punctured the ballooning rumor that David Lloyd George was about to be given a Cabinet portfolio by National Government in an effort to get the votes he is drumming up by his loud "New Deal" proposals to restore British prosperity by lavish public works (TIME, Jan. 28). Coldly, simply, Chancellor Chamberlain said: "The policy of providing public works always fails, and our past experience in this respect has been no different from that of other countries which have tried...