Encyclopedia of american business history part 3 pps

... more industrialized. In 18 83, 90 percent of the coffee business was in green coffee sales and only 10 percent was for roasters. By 19 13, the numbers were the reverse: 95 percent of the buyers at the exchange ... period. As a result of his revelations and those of others, the BANKING ACT OF 1 933 was passed. His successor, Winthrop Aldrich, helped heal the image of the bank, an...

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... landscape of Chicago by subsidizing several of its most famous landmarks. These included the University of Chicago, the Academy of Fine Arts, and the Field Museum of Natural History. When he died of ... governments, many of which expect off-the-record payments as part of the expense of doing business. See also G ENERALLY ACCEPTED ACCOUNTING PRINCIPLES;SECURITIES EXCHANG...

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... As an officer of FOTLU, Gompers advocated compulsory school attendance laws, the regulation of child labor, and the eight-hour work day. He became presi- dent of the AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR ... By the time of Goodrich’s death of exhaustion and tuberculosis in a Colorado sanatorium, his firm had become a regional powerhouse with assets of $564,000, profits of $107,000, a...

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... best known of which was for SEARS, ROEBUCK & CO. in 1906. The first nonfamily member of the firm was not admitted to a partnership until 1924. Most of the partners were members of the Lehman ... the policies of progressivism began to attack the lenient attitude of government toward business. The administration of William McKinley was the last in which a hands-off policy to...

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... broadcast on October 30 , 1 938 —an adapta- tion of H. G. Wells’s War of the Worlds—was a dramatic example of the power of entertainment and news-styled programming. During the 1 930 s, the NEWSPAPER ... president of the union, he held the post of president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations. He also helped orches- trate the merger of the two largest unions. When r...

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... 0-8160- 435 0-7 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. United States—Commerce History Encyclopedias. 2. Business enterprises—United States History Encyclopedias. 3. Indus- tries—United States History Encyclopedias. ... Inc. An imprint of Infobase Publishing 132 West 31 st Street New York, NY 10001 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Geisst, Charles R. Encyclopedia of Americ...

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... A History of the Bank of New York 1784–1884. New York: Bank of New York, 1884. Nevins, Allan, ed. History of the Bank of New York & T rust Co. New York: privately published, 1 934 . Bank of ... such sensational titles as The Indictment of the Better Business Bureau Conspiracy (1 931 ) and Rackets: An Exposé of the Methods and Practices of the Better Business Bur...

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... Modernization Act of 1999 abolished many of the regulations found in the BANKING ACT OF 1 933 , and the Inter- state Banking Act of 1994 replaced the restrictive branching provisions of the MCFADDEN ACT of 1927. The ... G. The First Year of the Budget of the United States. New York: Harper & Row, 19 23. T immons, Bascom N. Portrait of an American: Charles G. Dawes. New...

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... of 1 933 , the Federal Housing Act of 1 934 , and the B ANKING ACTOF 1 933 (Glass-Steagall Act). As a result of his public service, Eccles was named chairman of the Fed- eral Reserve System in 1 934 ... exports of Ameri- can sellers. The combination of the two, along with other forms of credits and guarantees, is part of American trade policy and can signifi- cantly affect...

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... ACT OF 1 934 . Further reading Federal Bar Association, Securities Law Committee. Federal Securities Laws: Legislative History, 1 933 –1982. Washington, D.C.: Bureau of National Affairs, 19 83. Stevens, ... June 1987): 4 73 485. Walton, Gary M., and Hugh Rockoff. History of the American Economy , 9th ed. Stamford, Conn.: Thomson Learning, 2002. Alexander Field Insull, Samuel (185...

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