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...frequently on the front pages of local newspapers. He charged that the state primaries were the worst in years so far as forgeries, irregularities, and actual fraudulent practices were concerned. Secretary Cook is also the author of "Massachusetts Voter." In 1936 he repeated his 1934 triumph by an even wider margin demonstrating his hold on the independent vote...
Side by side with courses and examinations with teeth in them goes the need for wider scholarship aids, if American education is to fulfill its whole function in the community. A system of learning that excludes from a university education and hence from professional training, those whose ability and ambition is greater than their bank accounts does not pull its full load in a democratic society...
First Boston's reports are interesting to a far wider group than its 9,500 stockholders. Now that Ferdinand Pecora and the Senate Committee on Banking & Currency are occupied with other things than Wall Street, First Boston's figures are the primest clue to banking house profits. In 1936 First Boston took in $7.348.000 from underwriting and trading operations, another $1,253,000 from interest and dividends, $229.000 from commission, service charges and miscellaneous sources. General expenses were...
With little advertising except a two-page "Register" of gloomy provincial hotels, the Saturday Review was most interesting when Lady Houston was most irritated at some new crime of Britain's democratic government. Articles which Lady Houston wanted to reach a wider public than the Review's top circulation of 50,000 (achieved when the price was reduced to 4?) were put on the presses as pamphlets. At such times, Lady Houston's order was: "Keep on printing until I tell you to stop!" Sometimes "Lucy" forgot to call a halt, so the printers always arbitrarily ended...
Converted President Lewis H. Brown of Johns-Manville Corp. thumped for a "wider appreciation and understanding of the social responsibilities of business." It was up to industry, said Mr. Brown, to help supply what the U. S. wanted- "work, more money, still more leisure, security against unemployment now and against poverty in old age, and more and better goods at lower prices...