Archive for November, 2006

Growth of Professional Football 1933

Increasing Popularity of Professional Football
Growth of the Game Is Closely Linked With the Story of Dr. Harry A. March, Who Brought It Into the East With the Backing of Tim Mara
IN the office of Tim Mara, owner of the New York Giants professional football team, there hangs a framed photostatic enlargement of an editorial that [...]

First US Pro Tennis Champion 1927

HOW VINCENT RICHARDS BECAME THE FIRST PRO TENNIS “CHAMP”Â
… Kinsey, as I said, is a much improved player over the player who won his way to the finals at Wimbledon several years ago. He is forcing more, adding speed to his shots, and playing ever with that guile and deception for which he is famous. [...]

Is There Life on Mars 1925

WHY ARE WE KEEN ABOUT MARS?
WHY SHOULD MARS ATTRACT so much interest as it does? “asks Dr. Robert G. Aitken, associate director of the Lick Observatory, in a recent leaflet issued by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (San Francisco). It is by no means the largest of the planets; on the contrary, it is [...]

Coal Mining Deaths 1923

COAL’S COST IN HUMAN LIFE
TWICE IN A DECADE have coal-miners of Dawson, New Mexico, been trapt and entombed by mine explosions which snuffed out a total of 383 lives. And in both instances the mines were owned by the same corporation. In ten years, declares the New York Evening Post, “we have killed approximately 24,000 [...]

Executive Remuneration at GM 1924

HOW GENERAL MOTORS WILL MAKE ITS EXECUTIVES PARTNERS
THE General Motors Corporation, which is controlled by the Du Ponts, has evolved a plan for making “special partners” of its leading executives. President Alfred G. Sloan, of the Corporation, explains that “in a great structure such as the General Motors Corporation, where problems and operation are so [...]

US Businessmen Need to Learn Chinese 1924

CHINESE AS A BUSINESS NECESSITY
THE NEED OF KNOWLEDGE of the Chinese language in order to do business in China is said to be overlooked by some American firms, and this fact is much regretted by an American weekly of Shanghai. Three or four years ago American business men in that city, we are told, showed [...]

Insurance Coverage 1930

MORE BILLIONS FOR INSURANCE
SOME insurance readers of these columns were surprized some weeks ago to find a writer trying to impress his readers with the magnitude of the insurance business, and then citing figures which failed to show the full extent of that businessâ€”by a great deal. In fact, an insurance weekly, The Insurance Field [...]

Comparison of British and US Income Taxes 1930

A TALE OF TWO INCOME TAXES
THE heavy burden of the British tax-payer is a matter of general knowledge.
But it is interesting to find a careful comparison, between the income tax paid by the Britisher and that paid by the American of the same financial standing. Such a comparison is made by the British journalist, P. [...]

Thrift and Prosperity 1930

THE FIVE FAT YEARS
THE subject is thrift. It happens to be a favorite topic with columnist W.G. Sibley of the Chicago Journal of Commerce.
He advances the idea that in almost every normal man’s life there are five years in which it is easy to make money, and those five years, whether they come soon or [...]

College Exams Abolished 1921

ABOLISHING COLLEGE EXAMS
A NEW TERROR may await the fearsome student instead of the bed of roses that the removal of the examination test promises. Just what the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania may propose as a substitute for the “mid-years” and “finals” that they have announced abolished will be awaited with interest by [...]