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...reviews are being held in the major courses only for two primary reasons. The first is that the tutoring schools seem to draw most of their recruits from the large survey courses that the Freshmen have to take before they can select their field of concentration. The second reason is that the Committee has not the time to get in reviews on all courses that Freshmen could take as this would open up an almost unlimited field...
Last week, as Pete Nehemkis tried (unsuccessfully) to get Mr. Stanley to admit that his firm, managing underwriter for A. T. & T., had parceled out its financing ($580,000,000 since 1935) to a select and fixed group, SEC's quizzer carefully avoided reference to competitive bidding. A question by TNEC Chairman O'Mahoney gave Harold Stanley the opening he was waiting for. With the air of a man starting a lecture, Mr. Stanley sounded off: ". . . The question of competitive bidding is a subject which I would like to go into and talk about at length...
...long after Fisk Rubber Co. was pulled through the receivership wringer in 1933, the House Select Committee on Investigation of Real Estate Bondholders' Reorganizations roundly spanked the firm's reorganizers (most of whom were bankers who had financed Fisk) for sacrificing the bondholders to suit their own fiscal interests. The old company was sold for $3,030,000 to a new corporation which wrote it up to $13,000,000, but new Fisk Rubber Corp. was clean in one respect: it had no bonded debt. And it prospered...
Undefeated Cornell dominated the CRIMSON'S All-Ivy League football eleven by landing four men in the select group, while Dartmouth's Indians placed two men on the team. The Big Red's delegation was split evenly, with two in the backfield and two in the line...
Murphy and his fellow researcher, Minot, are members of the select group of thirteen men who now represent the U.S. as Nobel Prize science winners...