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...Foreign Service Association is an unofficial, voluntary organization to which most members of the U. S. Foreign Service, from Ambassadors to vice consuls, belong. Formed "to foster esprit de corps and to establish a centre around which might be grouped the united efforts of its members for the improvement of the service," it is sanctioned, but not assisted or provided for by the State Department. The Secretary of State is honorary president. Toward the erection of the memorial $1,200 of a necessary $3,000 has already been raised among the membership. When finished it will be placed...
...charge of the Sunday magazine. Brilliant both as writer and analyst, he soon became TIME'S Business Editor. In 1929 he was selected to lay the groundwork for FORTUNE, being named Managing Editor when the magazine appeared in January, 1930. By last week he had seen FORTUNE establish a reputation for being, according to various estimates: 1) the most readable and most thoroughgoing magazine on the subject of business; 2) the "most beautiful magazine in America." Having attracted 46,000 subscribers at $10 a year, it was showing a profit and continuing to grow, strongly. Managing Editor Lloyd-Smith...
...course aims to establish an acquaintanceship with the basic principles which underlie the subject of real estate. It is designed for men who as brokers, agents, or operators expect to control real property, or who, in the capacity of investors, bankers, or trustees, are likely to be called upon to exercise their judgment with respect to investments in land...
...fourth year of the Graduate School of Business Administration. Seldom has the development of a Graduate School been more swift and sure. It was first among Business Schools requiring a college degree for entrance. It was first to develop fully, the "problem method" of instruction. Its purpose was to establish business as a profession, its ideal to replace the chance balances of social evolution by the intelligent control of man, the unthinking buccaneer by the socially responsible executive. These beginnings have been kept alive. In a business era of change in both ethics and practice, an era linked more than...
...didactic. It introduces with too much profusion and too little clarity the documents which lead to the conviction of Dreyfus but it is explicit in dealing with later developments of the case: the imprisonment of Dreyfus on Devil's Island; the efforts of Emile Zola and others to establish his innocence; the trial of the real traitor, Major Esterhazy; the subsequent recall and rehabilitation of Dreyfus. The picture suffers from the technical weaknesses of most films manufactured in England but it recreates for its audiences the excitement which made the Dreyfus case a scandal, a tragedy and a political...