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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Self-styled a "national forum for problems of distribution," the Boston conference generally produces more concrete discussions than do broader conclaves like the International Management Congress. As a basis for this year's chief topic, the U. S. Chamber of Commerce submitted a history of the U. S. census of distribution of commodities by wholesale and retail merchants. Need for such a statistical breakdown was first felt in 1922. By 1925 a committee headed by Owen D. Young was at work on the idea. First nationwide census was made by the Bureau of the Census for the year...
...debating teams, pick their own subjects and conduct their oratorical tournaments without let or hindrance from their instructors. Their last jousting was due to fall . . . just before close of school for the summer. . . . It was only toward the end that the headmaster, the Rev. Endicott Peabody, learned the topic under discussion, descended with outraged screams and howls upon the entire program, called everything off and retired to his study mopping his clerical brow over the narrowest call of his career. The lads had selected as a subject: 'Which of its graduates, Richard Whitney or Franklin D. Roosevelt, has brought...
...International Red Cross was founded 75 years ago as an agency to care for wounded war combatants. Last week, at the quadrennial Red Cross conference, originally scheduled for Madrid, then shifted to London, the fighting soldier received little attention. Instead, the main conference topic was the protection of the noncombatant man, woman & child in time...
...trustees and officers who manage the affairs of the American Medical Association sat silent for 16 min., 40 sec. in a San Francisco room last week. Cause: A preview of the MARCH OF TIME'S monthly cinema on the topic Men of Medicine-1938, a picture of how a young man gets his medical education and interne training, how he sets up practice in a typical small U. S. community, how he accidentally gets and skilfully operates on his first appendix case, how he gives his service free to the poor who attend hospital clinics...
Ratings was another prime topic oi conversation among last week's frolicking bond men. For many years banks buying bonds have generally relied on the ratings published by the four big statistical services-Standard Statistics, Moody's, Poor's and Fitch's.* In 1936 the Comptroller of the Currency made this custom a requirement in cases when bonds are of doubtful value. Last January a research economist at the University of Chicago with the resounding name of Melchior Palyi took it upon himself to denounce this setup. Said he: "The ruling of the Comptroller...