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Next morning in New York the office of J. P. Morgan & Co. opened its books for subscription, closed them at noon "over-subscribed." Forty-five banks and banking houses, whose resources of credit might be considered unlimited, followed the Morgan name on the issue's advertisement. Trading on a when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Oversubscribed | 6/23/1930 | See Source »

Like most Big Business meetings this one was not purely altruistic. The Shanghai American School's prospectus explains succinctly the part the institution plays in international commerce: "Executives of American business having interests in China attribute a decrease of 25% in the 'turnover' of their Far Eastern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: U. S. Outpost | 4/28/1930 | See Source »

Further bewailing the lot of the college president, Dean McConn said that all of his assistants are "his own creatures, his own appointees . . . his yes-men, as are likewise the professors." And Dean McConn deduced that the strenuous life of the college president accounts for the fact that "within the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Dangerous Trade | 4/7/1930 | See Source »

Bread cast on the waters of the Manhattan Call Money Market has long since ceased to come back tenfold. Last week call money hit a low of 2% and an average of 3%, compared to a low of 7% and an average of 9% for the corresponding week of 1929...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: 2% Money | 3/31/1930 | See Source »

The Harvard organism would not permit the foundation of such a school for undergraduates, and it is doubtful if it could take a place among the increasingly professional graduate schools; but the system of concentration and distribution already offers a basis on which a similar structure can be built. The...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MEANS TO THE END | 2/24/1930 | See Source »

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