Pub Date : 1952-09-01DOI: 10.1017/s0007680500024909
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Pub Date : 1952-09-01DOI: 10.1017/S0007680500024867
Frances W. Gregory
In contrast to the practice followed in most corporate business enterprises, the position of president in a textile company is generally of secondary importance. The treasurer is usually the chief executive officer. It is he who makes the managerial decisions, and it is he who is responsible only to the board of directors. In the nineteenth century, all the mills established by the Boston capitalists adopted this nomenclature for their leading officers; curiously enough, the mills at Lowell continue this practice today. The treasurer of each company directs its operation from his office in Boston while the agent supervises production from his counting room at Lowell; very much in the background is the president. It is the purpose of the present study to investigate the origin of this usage and to discover what were some of the functions and characteristics of the presidents of these textile companies in the nineteenth century.
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Pub Date : 1952-09-01DOI: 10.1017/S0007680500024880
Jean E. Keith
It would be impossible within the brief compass of this paper to give even a fraction of the chronological developments in the complicated story of the close inter-relationships of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad with the mining and manufacturing interests of northern Alabama in the formative years of the 1870's and 1880's. Instead, this paper is intended to show in somewhat broader outline how that railroad entered the Birmingham region after the Civil War and something of the scope of information relative to that region's development that can be obtained from the business records of this railroad. It is also the intention of this paper to give some insight into the importance of the role of the railroad outside of its usual part as a carrier only. In the encouragement of traffic peculiar to its own region it was expedient for a railroad to favor some industries over others, some areas over others, some businessmen over others. It was important for the flow of traffic that certain communities be encouraged at the expense of others. Although the physical presence of the railroad itself may account for some alteration in the established patterns of regional economy, the conscious, active, and deliberate attempts of the railroad management to influence the direction of regional growth may well be considered as determining factors.
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Pub Date : 1952-09-01DOI: 10.1017/S0007680500024855
Stanley S. Miller
By the time a business society is labeled “materialist,” the battle slogan has already rallied what must once have been mere squads of private frustrations. To begin with, somebody's conscience must have been upset by the great business mastery of circumstance, or there would be no need to complain about “materialism” or anything else. Since a case of upset conscience can cover a variety of aches and pains, it might be worth investigating some of the particular frustrations before we draw conclusions about business in general. Fortunately, we have data that isolate some aspects of the problem where we can observe and enjoy it—in the roots of an occurrence, with real people living the issues.
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Pub Date : 1952-09-01DOI: 10.1017/s0007680500024843
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Pub Date : 1952-06-01DOI: 10.1017/s000768050002479x
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Pub Date : 1952-06-01DOI: 10.1017/S0007680500024818
A. Shafer
When the Williams brothers migrated from Connecticut to New York State in 1825 they established themselves as country merchants, yet their activities bore a distinct resemblance to those of the seaboard merchants of the late eighteenth century. Although divorced from international trade, the Williamses exhibited the same dependence on country produce, the same need to exchange produce for specie and specie for manufactured goods as did the House of Hancock.
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Pub Date : 1952-06-01DOI: 10.1017/S0007680500024806
C. O'donnell
One of the recurring problems in the study of management theory concerns the authority relationships between stockholders, officers, and directors of corporations. The power centers in the corporate form of enterprise are quite different from those that obtain in an individual proprietorship and in a partnership. In addition, many differences between these types of legal organizations may be noted as one considers them from the point of view of the source of executive authority or from the viewpoint of statute law and its interpretations.
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Pub Date : 1952-06-01DOI: 10.1017/s0007680500024831
Janneka L. Guise, J. Watson
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Pub Date : 1952-06-01DOI: 10.1017/S000768050002482X
F. Redlich
The Kress Room of Baker Library recently acquired the Latin and German editions of a book which must be considered one of the first, if not the first, guide for investors published in Germany. According to the custom of the times, the titles are cumbersome indeed. The earlier Latin edition's title reads: Commentatio juris praesertim Germanici tam consonarais quam dissonantis de pecunia mutuaticia tuto collocanda. An wen, wie, und wo die Capitalien am sichersten auszulehnen (Goettingae, 1761); while the German edition is entitled Der Kluge Capitalist, oder politisch redlicher Unterricht, wie Gelder am sichersten zu benutzen und anzulegen (Nürnberg, 1766; 2d ed., 1786).
贝克图书馆的克雷斯室最近获得了一本拉丁文和德文版本的书，这本书必须被认为是德国出版的第一本，如果不是第一本，投资者指南之一。按照当时的习俗，头衔确实很繁琐。较早的拉丁文版本的标题是:《对德国的法律评论》(Commentatio juris praesertim Germanici tam辅音arais quam dissonantis de pecunia mutuaticia tuto colcolanda)。(Goettingae, 1761);而德文版本的题目是《资本论》，《政治论》，《权力论》(n伦伯格，1766;2版，1786年)。
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