Word: reportedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nearly 1,000,000 telephones in ten countries. Assets on its books tot up to $537,000,000 and once in 1929 its common stock sold for $149.25 a share, 49 times earnings. Last week it sold for $6.75 a share, six times 1938 earnings, and in his annual report I. T. & T.'s amiable President Sosthenes Behn described the hardships of international capitalism...
...answer the point with an investigation which is not yet completed. The American Institute of Accountants, chief C.P.A. professional association, also launched an investigation. Last week it issued its report, tantamount to an order to all Institute Accountants from now on. Its chief decision: that good auditing procedure calls for actual corroboration of inventories by physical tests, heretofore usually done only on specific request by the company...
Attacked Conant Report...
Under the presidency of David W. Prall, professor of Philosophy, the Union in 1937-38 attacked President Conant's report recommending limitation of college enrollment as "the ploughing under of human brains." The fight against the Oath Bill and on behalf of Walsh and Sweezy was continued...
...much talked of "younger men." The Union's fight for the retention of Walsh and Swoezy may have been in vain. But this year's trenchant proposals for tenure reform and complete departmental democracy may cut more ice with the powers that be than the Faculty Committee's exhaustive report on the same subject. The Union's program was not only written for the younger men, but also by the younger...