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...AMERICAN Business Leaders" "suggests if it does not prove" that inborn ability rather than unequal opportunity is still the predominant explanation in the success stories of America's industrial captains. Professor Taussig, director of the research and author with Mr. Joslyn, arrives at his conclusion after a masterful and scholarly analysis of his statistics. While eminently understandable by the layman, the book is at the same time exhaustively precise with interesting appendices, sufficient for the most particularizing pedant...
...most careful researches into the origin of one of the higher classes that has ever been made. It is compiled with unusual shrewdness and skill, particularly in comparison to other similar studies. With a comparatively unassuming and concise set of nine questions as a basis, Professor Taussig and Mr. Joslyn have deduced a surprisingly large amount of statistical material. The questions were the respondent's age, age at which he entered business, the most important position held, age at attaining this position, the size of the business, the principal occupation of the respondent's father, the extent of the respondent...
...survey were without college education although the percentage of college men holding high positions in the largest corporations was greater than the percent of college men in the group as a whole. Men who entered college but did not graduate comprised 13 percent of the leaders in Professor Taussig's list. Men of exceptional ability apparently reached their goal with or without the advantages of education or inherited wealth...
Professor Taussig has never been conspicuous for his head-long boldness or panther-like jumping at conclusions and his usual caution has not deserted him in "American Business Leaders." In contradiction to journalistic style, he opens each chapter with a series of explanations, reservations, and qualifications; gingerly indicating toward the end a few acceptable conclusions. This unnecessary humility on Professor Taussig's part is the reviewer's only object of criticism...
...report made by the committee for the consideration of intergovernmental debts, an extension of the moratorium on international debt payments and reconstruction, and the readjustment of the intergovernmental debt-finding agreements was urged. F. A. Taussig '79, Eaton Professor of Economics, is a member of the committee headed by A. P. Sloan, Jr., president of the General Motors Corporation...