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...Money figures represent present-day values based on conversion from sterling at $4.80 per pound...
...German guilder varied with the time and place. The present-day guilder is a Dutch coin worth about 40? (exchange is nearly normal); and 1,000 guilders would be, therefore, about...
...view of the important place in the marketing of merchandise, which advertising has assumed, and how, with constantly improving methods, it has become a permanent and useful factor in the present-day sales processes, particular emphasis will be placed upon methods of investigation employed for securing concrete facts and data in preparing and evaluating the appeals to be presented in any carefully prepared advertising plan. The course will deal with the place and function of advertising in business, with typical analyses of the markets and of the groups of persons to whom certain commodities are to be sold, with...
...Hall there brooded Boris A. Bakhmeteff, the last Russian Ambassador to the U. S. (under the Kerensky regime, 1917). He has not seen Russia since the Red deluge and there was some speculation in the press as to how well fitted he was to preside over a discussion of present-day Russia. He introduced John Spargo, U. S. publicist, whose Socialist tint is more distinguishable from Soviet Red than his rather alarming personal appearance would suggest. Said Mr. Spargo...
...origins as well as its accomplishments. He was educated at Harvard. He was for a time a teacher at Groton School, then turned to editorial and publishing pursuits, and served on various magazines and publishing houses. The Atlantic is interesting because of its Editor's keen interest in present-day affairs, and his unwillingness to be fitted into any groove of opinion. After all, that is the first characteristic, I believe, of a successful editor...