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...found that an "air trust" had a monopoly on government contracts, that he had made 18% profit on the planes he built for the Navy last year. But when the Committee heard that 10% of his manufacturing cost went to Aluminum Co. of America and that only from that concern could he get the necessary aluminum, it grew suspicious, "invited" Aluminum Co. representatives to appear...
...against the Exchange Bill. Summoning the senior partners of the biggest wire houses, he outlined the bill's high points. Soon the private wire systems flashed to managers and resident partners in 1,200 branch offices messages like this: "National Securities [Exchange] Act is a matter of grave concern to every owner of real estate or securities, to all officials of corporations or banks. . . . It is no exaggeration to say that very few of your friends or clients can afford to disregard this new menace to national recovery. . . . Please discuss it with others and urge them to acquaint themselves...
...lessons of these difficult times have taught us many things. Among these is the incontrovertible fact that unemployment, with all its attendant distress, is a problem which is the direct concern of government. The machine age has permanently changed our obligations. There can now be no doubt that those who find themselves, through no fault of their own, displaced in recurring periods of depression must be provided for by Government, with funds raised from the taxpayers. If no better method can be thought of, we are constrained to resort to the dole. But should not every effort be made...
...Taeusch '20, professor of Business Ethics, March 13; "Can an Industrial Civilization Meet the Challenge of Technology and Invention?" by John G. Callan, professor of Industrial Management, March 20; "Banks and the New Deal" by John F. Ebersole '09, professor of Banking, March 27; "Financial Problems of the Business Concern" by Robert L. Mason '17, professor of Finance, April 3; "Government Control of Public Utilities" by Clyde O. Ruggles '09, professor of Public Utilities, April 17; "Technical Problems of National Planning" by Donald H. Davenport, professor of Business Statistics, April 24; "Planning Our National Life as a Part...
President Conant's program is postulated on the idea that Harvard's first concern should be to get the best students, rather than to develop more effective means for education those it gets. In such a program the problem of admissions requirements must take on primary importance...