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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said Mr. Rockefeller, in introduction: "In the days when my father was active in affairs, the great problem with which business was grappling was how to organize on a scale commensurate with the growing demands for service made by the ever-increasing population. Now the gigantic corporate form of business, suspected and harrassed during the years of its evolution, is accepted as not only useful but indispensable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Rockefeller Philosophy | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

...seeking the practical solution to Albania's acute problem, Dr. Erickson recognizes two major needs; the first is for capital to be invested in her rich natural resources; the second is for education. To meet this second requirement Dr. Erickson has opened his American Agricultural School. The Albanian government supplied him with 1000 acres of land. It was confiscated, Dr. Erickson has been an exile with a price on his head; a few years later however he represented Albania at the peace conference...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ERICKSON PINS HOPES FOR ALBANIAN GROWTH ON BETTER EDUCATION | 12/10/1927 | See Source »

...state co-educational college, are usually troubled a great deal by the sex question, as a consequence their emotions are stirred up and they become to excited to do their work well", Mr. Russell continued, "but if they were permitted to enter in a companionate marriage the whole problem would be solved, and both boy and girl would be able to do a great deal better work." Contending that birth control was an integral part of companionate marriage. Mr. Russell stated that. "In England there is no such silly talk about the illegallity of Birth Control. People are quite...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SAYS AMERICANS ARE TOO FEMININE | 12/9/1927 | See Source »

...from "Universities Afloat" who made a "threeday stay," and various biased politicians from the days of William Jennings Bryan down to more recent afflictions, who have stayed anywhere from three days to three weeks, are much more emphatic and cover more territory than those who have struggled with the problem in all its bewildering phases for 29 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 5, 1927 | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

Professor Schrumpf-Pierron (he is at the University of Cairo) catalogs for the "Committee to Study the Tobacco Problem" (Dr. Alexander Lambert of Manhattan is its president) the effect of tobacco on the various parts and functions of the human body. It is a thoroughly scientific report by a trained, far-read clinician...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Tobacconia | 11/28/1927 | See Source »

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