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...lasting contribution by Mr. Charles C. Eaton to the enrichment of the Harvard School of Business Administration--a contribution which is the more notable by reason of the fact that the Librarian has been confronted for the greater part of this period with the fact of relatively meager funds...
Original Goldman Sachs partners were Julius Goldman, Harry Sachs, Samuel Sachs. The company began as a buyer of commercial paper, with its funds so meager that Harry and Samuel Sachs are said to have spent part of their time as commercial paper buyers and the remainder as clothing peddlers with packs on their backs. When the sons of the founders became active in the business, difficulties arose between young Henry Goldman and the Sachs family, reputedly concerning Mr. Goldman's sympathetic War attitude toward the Central Powers. At any rate, there are now no Goldmans in Goldman Sachs. Founders...
Despite the fact that an unannounced benefactor has offered three horses for polo purposes, the management has been unable to accept the gift because of the lack of necessary funds to feed and groom the animals. The result is that, with the meager $1200 subsidy of polo, the team can never use its own horses in games away from home. This fact is made even more annoying because there are no contests scheduled in Cambridge this spring since there is no playing field...
...foreign trade situation is as discouraging as the domestic. During the first six months of 1928, U. S. locomotive works had shipped to foreign countries only 75 locomotives. Even this meager figure represented a rapidly falling market. On Aug. 1, 1928, U. S. locomotive builders were constructing 73 locomotives for foreign roads. On Aug. 1, 1927, they had been building 209 such locomotives, and on Aug. 1, 1926, there were 517 U. S. locomotives under construction for the export trade. Thus the 1928 export production has shrunk to about one-seventh of its 1926 figure...
...have had a conventional small command in the Civil War. As it happened, he was drifting from farmer pillar to salesclerk post, miserably deficient in supporting his family, scorned by relatives and Illinois townsfolk, when the war started. Grant decided he must repay the government for his free, if meager, education at West Point. For months his desultory applications for a command were ignored, but when the need for better generalship grew desperate, a trick of chance politics brought him to the crucial command in Tennessee...