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That sweetening of labor which is a salary bonus sifted unexpectedly and in unusual ways upon three working groups last week. In Manhattan, each employe of the First National Bank discovered one morning a novel mid-year gift, an unexpected bonus equal to his entire year's salary. At the end of a year every bank employe expects some kind of bonus. It is his wage gamble against usually meagre salaries. This bonus was different. It was the personal gift of the bank's board chairman, George Fisher Baker, to 148 clerks and junior officers. It approximated...
...famed Quaker Oats Company of Chicago does not confine its knowledge of psychology to America. Realizing that worshiping Japanese ape their divinely-descended royalty, sagacious salesmen foisted puffed-wheat upon the slant-eyed public by a gift to the Crown Prince of an elaborately engraved box just the size of a carton containing three dozen packages of cereal. Exploiting Reputation. Last week a group of Manhattan bankers and labor leaders furbished up a new sort of bait to attract the $6,000,000,000 to $7,000,000,000 which U. S. labor accumulates each year. These men gained control...
...revealed. Against the open window lay a woman, painted by Franz Hals, worth $40,000. Torn bodily from its place, disappeared, was an early Persian-silk animal rug, priceless example of its type and period. It, as well as the bust of the alabastine lady below, was the gift to the museum of Mr. and Mrs. Edsel Ford...
Georges Leygues, Minister of the Navy, accepted the gift for France. He emotionally described St. Nazaire as the place where France "first felt the heart beats of the American people." At the close of his speech, he approached Mrs. Whitney and pinned the Legion of Honor on the dress of the sculptress...
...survey, which comes from a firm of professional drive managers, concludes thus: "We are impressed pretty, strongly with the fact that these charts show twice as many alumni givers as public givers but an average public gift 75 per cent, higher than the average alumni gift." Who are these public givers who play so "important a giving part"? Deponent sayeth not. Yet they can only be successful men who regret their own lack of an alma mater elder members of that new group of Americans who are so largely the cause of the need of more endowment. If confirmation...