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Depression I pulled him into public service (State Relief, NRA, NEC, Housing). A Republican by family precept, he had long been a friend of Franklin Roosevelt's Uncle Frederic Delano, in the early New Deal years came to know and admire the President. So he was not astounded when onetime NEC Director Frank Walker met him in the lobby of Washington's Hotel Mayflower shortly after the 1936 elections, suggested he visit the White House next day. He was sworn in as Assistant Secretary...
...save it from the hard times which descended upon it and Wall Street's three other financial dailies.* Not until 1935 did Mr. Macfadden heed his own good advice by selling the Investment News. Last week his successor, Haydock ("Eternal Optimist") Miller, followed Macfadden's precept and example by bowing the Investment News out of existence...
...employees. And this on the principle that Harvard owes an obligation to its employees as well as to students; that there is no fundamental opposition between these two obligations; that in fact a University can educate its students to new situations and responsibilities by practice as well as precept...
...Across": typical Carnegie tip: "Do not fuss with your necktie or clothes-be always neatly dressed and let your hands hang at your sides." Professor Harold F. Clark of Columbia and Dr. Carl Norcross concluded Photo-Facts with a curbstone lesson in popular economics, "Easy Money for Everyone." A precept: ". . . Instead of cursing the other fellow who is better paid, the clever man hunts around for a field in which he sees there is more money." Like Your Life, Photo-Facts carries no advertising...
Accounting. "I think the commission must be the pacesetter in the accounting field, crystallizing the most conservative practices of the best elements in the accounting profession and seeking by education, by precept, perhaps by rule and regulation, to bring the accounting profession up to the highest levels of its best elements...