Word: partment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Charles Breckenridge Paris cut the salary of Lewis Warrington Bald- win, president of the "Mop," from $85,416 to $40,000 a year. He cut the pay of Senior Vice President Edward M. Durham Jr. from $40,000 to $19,200; of Fred Page Johnson, vice president (finance de- partment) from $22,300 to $13,800. Other salaries fixed by the Court: for vice presidents $6,000 to $18,600, for secretary & treasurer $6,000, for general solicitor $4,800. President Baldwin, rated one of the ablest operating men in railroads, sent to the "Mop" by Kuhn, Loeb...
That Economics A should be the introductory course in the field is an unfortunate if unavoidable fact. Undergraduate opinion almost unanimously would condemn the course as dull to the point of stupidity, uninspiring, and relatively uninstructive. Leaders in the de- partment have replied to the writer's criticism that the lecture system is incapable of giving the student a firm and realistic grip on the difficult problems of economic theory. They point to past experience for support. With unconcealed sense of martyrdom they explain how and why the lecture system was abandoned in the past. The fact remains, however, that...