Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before a joint committee of New York State law-makers engaged in revising New York's public utility laws, appeared last week Professor Irving Fisher, Yale economist. Even as many a Yale student has replied "I don't know" to questions asked by Professor Fisher, so Professor Fisher replied "I don't know" to questions asked by the committee's counsel. Col. William Joseph ("Wild Bill'') Donovan, onetime (1924-25) U. S. Assistant Attorney-General. Finally Professor Fisher admitted that he was unprepared, had not made any particular study of Public Utilities. Loath to take a zero...
...cherish the memory of our dear associates who wrought gloriously in their time of service and have passed on with unclouded records. We who remain are to carry on ... with ... an increasing de sire to be of the greatest service to man kind." Thus, in Cleveland last week, spoke John D. Rockefeller to industrialists celebrating the 60th anniversary of the foundation of Standard Oil. It was not Mr. Rockefeller in person. He was hiding his 90-year-old body away from the winter at Ormond Beach, Fla. To Cleveland he had sent his likeness in a talking cinema, the first...
...Flagler partnership representing Harkness capital. On Jan. 10, 1870 was organized the original Standard Oil Company (it was Standard Oil of Ohio then) with John D. Rockefeller, William Rockefeller, and Andrews, Flagler and Harkness as incorporators. These were the "dear associates" of whom Mr. Rockefeller's mirage spoke last week...
...greatest single company in the field of carbonated beverages is Canada Dry Ginger Ale, Inc., although it accounts for only a small percentage of the total U. S. ginger ale output. Dominant in carbonated water is White Rock Mineral Springs Co., with over 90% of the output. Last week Canada Dry officials admitted there have been conversations looking toward a merger with White Rock. On the New York Stock Exchange the shares of both companies fluctuated in a ratio indicating that the rumored exchange of one share of Canada Dry for one and two-thirds of White Rock...
...turn out to be scamps. Yet a greater proportion of clergymen's sons are to be found in Who's Who in America than sons of any other professional or laboring class, skilled or unskilled.* Spurred by this fact, a unique form of philanthropy was suggested last week at a Manhattan luncheon of the American Eugenics Society by hearty, bearded President Dr. Clarence Gordon Campbell of the Eugenics Research Association. Briefly, what he proposed was that every clergyman be given a bonus for each baby he begets. Said he: "Any proposal to encourage breeding and to increase...