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Kingsley Wood, Conservative, gratuitously asked: ". . . whether before that decision was arrived at, consideration was given to the fact that the present holder of the office had found the emoluments of his office insufficient and had to go to a private concern?" (TIME, Sept...
...Chicago. What his selling price was is unknown. But the company's last balance sheet showed assets over $26,000,000 and annual gross business over $23,000,000. The headquarters of the company are located in Chicago, with branches in about one hundred other cities. The concern owns 100,000 separate leases controlling 40,000,000 square feet (10 10/99 square miles) of wall surface and 1,800,000 square feet (5/11 square mile) of billboards...
...bankers who have acquired the Cusack Co. expect to make a public offering of the stock shortly. This is said to be the first time in the history of U. S. business that Wall Street bankers have taken over an advertising concern, and also the first time that shares in such a business should be underwritten and sold to the public through the Wall Street markets...
...same objection holds good in regard to the schools themselves. Where standards are already high, nothing need be done. It is the school whose standards are low that is the concern of the donors of the award, and it is precisely at this point that the second fundamental obstacle arises. If the morale of a school has fallen to such a point that its directors are no longer disturbed by the necessarily poor showing of its graduates in college examinations, it is hardly probable that they will be aroused to reformatory efforts by the possibility of winning an appropriately designed...
...Democratic nominee has been accused of personal dishonesty, because he accepted employment under a great corporation as consulting attorney. If Mr. Davis believes that a concern such as Morgan & Co. is a menace to our country, could be conscientiously agree to defend its interests for a consideration...