Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile President Hoover found a man to take the place of Alexander Legge and thus complete the Board's membership. He was 67-year-old Samuel Henry ("Sam") Thompson of Quincy, Ill., president of the potent American Farm Bureau Federation. Mr. Thompson owns a 500-acre corn farm which his...
"Steamers, ach. steamers have no soul. It is only the sailing vessels that made great the profession of the sea," declared Count von Luckner, the "Sea-Devil" in an interview yesterday, "the steamers have brought in the trade union on the sea, and the union has destroyed the profession. When...
How to interest people in the progressive theory of their profession seems an almost insoluble problem. It involves making scholarship practical and making ordinary business men more thoughtful. The notion is certainly Utopian. On the other hand, university extension courses already afford a practical means of bringing the best university...
"The medical profession is troubled with the same thing today that it was troubled with when I started my career. There are too many young men being knocked off the ladder of fame by old men coming down. . . .
From those who lend money for com- mercial enterprises, the Industrial Revolution in the 18th Century erased the last stigma; banking became a noble, honored profession. But much longer did there remain feeling against the moneylender who finances wage-earners with little loans. In 1928, Wall Street was genuinely surprised...