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...Pont enterprises. He had a record as a trouble shooter and a trouble shooter was what U. S. Rubber needed in 1929. This biggest unit in the industry had been internally unsound when the Du Fonts bought into it in 1927 and 1928. Francis Davis, diagnosed its troubles as twofold: the general collapse of crude-rubber prices that began in 1925 and the individual collapse of U. S. Rubber, suffering from obesity...
...chiefs smashed another precedent by having the gist of what they had said flashed to all the world immediately. M. Daladier was revealed, for example, to have readily agreed with Mr. Chamberlain's long exposition that to fight for Czechoslovakia would not save her but only result in twofold catastrophe. First, said Mr. Chamberlain, the Czech Army would massacre the Sudetens as traitors who would be caught between them and the German Army. Second, the Germans would have enough success in the first few days or weeks of war to overrun much Czech territory where, enraged by the massacre...
...educational innovations. The American History Plan is designed to promote an integrated conception of the civilization which America as a whole has produced. Still more important is the National Scholarship Plan, which brings to Harvard prime academic products of the South, Middle West, and Far West. Its benefits are twofold: it increases the scope of Harvard's services to the country, and its strengthens college life by contacts with new and varied points of view. President Conant has laid down an excellent highway; it remains for the University to travel farther upon...
...four years 107 daily newspapers have been forced to sign Guild contracts or to post pledges of minimum wages & hours. To make these gains, the Guild has had to organize 15,000 editorial and business office workers, finance 17 strikes. Present effort of the C. I. O. Guild is twofold: 1) unionization of all except A. F. of L. mechanical department workers, and 2) universal acceptance of the Guild shop, a condition it has been able to impose in only 20 of its 74 signed contracts...
...years administrator of the Securities & Exchange Commission's New York office, last week resigned to return to private practice. In so doing, he was following a well-established precedent which has given SEC about the highest rate of personnel turnover in the Government. Reasons for this are twofold: 1) though SEC is full of career men, only a few top-of-the-heap jobs pay an adequate salary; 2) SEC is also full of bright young lawyers who are glad to starve for a year or two in order to get an insight into SEC procedure which makes...