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Singer Manufacturing Co., which makes 80% of the sewing machines in the world and sells them through agencies in practically every community of the world, is one of the corporations which Professor William Zebina Ripley of Harvard scolded in his book Main Street and Wall Street- for furnishing "neither hide nor hair of financial data ... in the usual sources of information." Singer officials are seemingly thus niggardly because their stock is closely owned by people, many of whom knew the founders of their corporation and remember the anecdote of how the late Inslee A. Hopper became their first president...
...said, beginning to notice the thawing ice as it crept along the romonesque proportions of his sole, approached the Gothic outlines of a toe, "I can make Carver and Ripley and all of the boys so happy by quoting...
Today at 9 o'clock the Vagabond will attend Professor Yeoman's lecture at Harvard 2 on "State Control Over interstate Commerce," of particular interest because of the claims of Professor W. Z. Ripley recently published in the Atlantic Monthly that all corporations engaged in any form of interstate commerce are required by an old statute annually to fill out financial statements income accounts and reports of operation for the benefit of the Federal Trade Commission...
...late James Bradley Thayer, grandfather of M. Thayer, was Royall professor of law from 1874 until 1902, and Ezra Ripley Thayer, his father, was third dean of the Law School. Both his father and grandfather have donated their lives to the service of Harvard University, and Mr. Thayer's appointment yesterday cannot but recall their brilliant work...
Announcement yesterday by the Harvard Law School of the appointment of James Bradley, Thayer, son of the late Ezra Ripley Thayer, as assistant professor of comparative law, brings into the faculty of the Law School the third of a distinguished line of teachers...