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Slump. To dwell long on the sad state of trade would have been no gesture of friendship to the New Deal which has the slump already too much with it. Therefore, the topic of most concern to businessmen was little touched on publicly. One man, however, raised the doleful subject in no uncertain terms: Virgil Jordan, president of the fact-finding National Industrial Conference Board. He declared...
...Every man has a ghost," was the beguiling slogan with which a New York firm recently solicited Harvard business in a form letter received by a great number of the undergraduate body. In fact, on closer examination the services offered by this concern turned out to be considerably more than "ghosting," or rewrite work; it developed that the firm undertook to do research in any academic field desired, that a customer had only to wire to the company the nature of the problem confronting him and he would receive by registered mail a few days later a paper...
...copies), the Times makes up in weighty prestige. Sometimes a hint from the Times's "parliamentary correspondent" paves the way for action at No. 10 Downing Street. Rarely the Times thunders forth, altering British policy. During a crisis foreign embassies with almost comic concern telephone the Times to learn what it is going to say, take its words as the British attitude, often before the Foreign Office has made up its mind...
...nonchalant hero. Miriam Clark, borrowed from the Erskine School, puts considerable charm into the role of the candid huntress. L. John Profit, whom the club calls its veteran, does an excellent portrayal of the traditional canny Scott. Peggy Eastall is more than satisfactory as the efficient manager of the concern: the one who comes closest to getting the bills paid. The acting is simplified, since the characters are really types. Even so, William Judd and Harry Buckman are a little stiff in their roles of brokers; and Robert Markewich and James J. Storrow, 3d., put too much burlesque in their...
...most frequent source of criticism of the new School of Public Administration is a misunderstanding of its purpose. The primary concern of the school is to give capable men training in the knowledge and understanding of the precepts and mechanisms of government. Such training would prove invaluable to any governmental official...