Word: ripley
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Work of Federal Trade Commission and unfair trade practice", Professor Ripley, Emerson D, Government...
...Work of Federal Trade Commission and Unfair Trade Practice," Professor Ripley, Emerson D. Economics...
...National Museum (Washington, D. C.), to notify him that he had been honored with the Huxley Memorial Medal? for 1927 and would be expected in London a year from November to deliver the 1927 Huxley lecture before the Royal Anthropological Institute. No U.S. scientist save Professor William Zebina Ripley of Harvard (in 1908) had been so honored. It was recognition, gratifying indeed, of Dr. Hrdlicka's whole career, and in particular of his earth-circling trip last year when he discovered a pure American Indian type among Asian aborigines; noted scattered strains of Negrito stock as far apart as India...
When asked how the decision would affect the campaign Professor W. Z. Ripley has been waging for better conditions of corporate control, Professor Cunningham said, "This decision of the Interstate Commerce Commission is in direct accord with Professor Ripley's contentions. It is obvious that if only ten percent of a large issue of stock carries voting rights, a group of small minority holders can gain control of the whole thing, since all they need is 51 percent of ten percent. It was against this feature of the merger, as much as any other that the unfavorable decision was aimed...
...Professor Ripley pointed out in his recent criticism of modern corporate organization, it is bad business to sequester the control of a corporation, and, in this case, a public service corporation, in the hands of a small group of un-responsible if not irresponsible directors. When this objectionable feature has been removed, provided the promoters are willing to comply with the new economic spirit, then the Commission will be able to tuck the huge consolidation away among the "good trusts" and hid it a successful career...