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...John T. Flynn, the financial publicist and author, will address the second general meeting of the Harvard Inquiry in the Lowell House common room at 8 o'clock tonight. His subject "Mismanaged Capitalism" will include a discussion of the Kreuger and Insull cases and their significance. This talk will carry on the Inquiry's program of discussing the question, "What does the depression reveal about the need for long run changes?". Mr. Flynn is the author of "God's Gold, John D. Rockefeller and His Times" and of numerous other books and articles on financial matters...
Rockefeller, as Mr. Flynn sees him, is an organizing genius with the soul of a pious bookkeeper. Rockefeller's world has always been extraordinary circumscribed. As a young man it was continued almost exclusively to his produce business--his Sunday school class was almost his only diversion. He applied himself to getting ahead. When in the sixties he went into the oil refinery business, his way went through chaos. He shuddered at the prolific wastes of competition. The solution which he saw was combination and he applied himself to the task of making a combination which would make his business...
...Flynn's book is crammed with fascinating material which unfortunately has been put together a little too hastily to make a sharply drawn and forceful portrait of either the man or his time. His appraisal of the man differs markedly from that of Rockefeller's early muckrackers, William D. Lloyd and Ida Tarbell, who wrote before the great philanthropies had mellowed public sentiment and mergers had become respectable. These critics were dominated by the competitive ideal which Rockefeller perceived at the outset as false and inapplicable to the exigencies of the business situation and which we have more recently come...
...stay in jail tonight, your worship," he pleaded. "I can't stay in jail. Think of my public! I have to fight Jack Flynn for the Irish lightweight championship tonight...
...list of speakers on the Inquiry's program for the rest of the term has recently been completed. On November 17, John T. Flynn, author of "God's Gold: John D. Rockefeller and His Times" and a well known financial publicist, will speak. His subject will be the significance of the Kreuger and Insull cases and other recent instances of financial mis-management...