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An Economic Program For The League Of Nations Designed To Prevent World-Wide Economic Depressions, William A. Platz

Bachelors’ Theses

This thesis represents an effort to discover a way for the nations of the world to cooperate in the prevention of economic depression. The author has studied the League of Nations with the purpose of finding out what it can do in the promotion of such cooperation and has discovered organic weaknesses which seem to him to bar effective action by the League as it is now organized. He has recommended in the final chapter the organization of two new conferences, one representing commerce and industry and the other representing finance, which he considers essential to a workable program of …

Some Economic Aspects Of The Silver Fox Industry Including A Brief Study Of The Economic Possibilities Of The Industry In Northern Utah And Vicinity, Duncan Wayne Henrie

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The question is often asked, does the production of silver fox fur pay? Being a new industry in this part of the country (1924 was probably the beginning) not much is known concerning the facts of the business by the average person. In the following pages an economic discussion of the factors of this industry will be given. To begin with a short history of the fur industry and fur farming is given, to give perspective and background, as it is only through the history of the past that we are able to judge the future.

Branch Banking In California, Burrus Everett Claypool

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

In this paper it is hoped to present an accurate account of branch banking conditions. as they exist in California, followed by an expression of the writer's views upon the subject which have come from an impartial consideration of the movement from several standpoints.

Part one explains briefly the nature of branch banking , tells something of its importance and success in other countries and of its development in the United States. A discussion of the branch systems that are active in California and a detailed description of the origin, growth and importance of one large organization in the state …

A Study Of The Financial Considerations, Offered Teachers Of Utah, As Inducement For Professional Growth With Comparisons Drawn From Some Other States, Alvin Hess

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Much has been written on the subject of supervision and the improvement of teaching. It is the general opinion of authors on this subject that it is a much better procedure to retain the services of competent teachers over long tenure than to follow any of the uneconomical plans of adapting large numbers of new teachers to the task of establishing the necessary teacher-pupil contacts for successful learning. But, of course, these authors do not suggest long tenure without active improvement of teachers while in service. Tenure laws are of such importance in some states as to take the form …

The Social And Economic Basis For Child Welfare Standards, Margaret Anderson

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

It has been said that children are the nation's most valuable asset, since the future of the nation depends on their inborn possibilities and Share and the development of these possibilities. From an economic standpoint, the bringing up of a child is an investment, in fact, a very profitable investment, not so much for the immediate family as for the community as a whole.

Intervention Of The United States In Nicaragua Since 1909, Louise Floyd

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The twentieth century is revealing a steady increase in the influence of the United States in the Caribbean region, both in politics and economic development. The arm of America has been gradually forcing out the European nations. Counting colonies and protectorates, the United States has under its supervision a greater Caribbean population than the population of the thirteen colonies at the time of the Declaration of Independence. In trade the United States is the best customer of Central America and the West Indies. The region is one of the chief sources of our raw-materials imports.

The majority of the citizens …

The True Method Of Political Economy, William W. Folwell

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

Report On The Trade And Resources Of The Countries On The North-Western Boundary Of India, Punjab (India)

Books in English

An attempt has been made to bring into one view the principal facts which have been recorded by former travelers, or are now derivable from other sources, concerning the trade and resources of the countries beyond the north-western boundary of British India, with the object of furnishing information auxiliary to the future improvement of the existing intercourse between them and our own territories.

Valuable maps have been furnished by Major Walker, and Captain P. Lumsden.

Letter From Augustin Hibbard To [William Hibbard] 1856 July 21, Augustin Hibbard

Gold Rush Life

San Francisco July 21^st/56

My Dear Brother

I returned to this city on the 10 [ ] in good health having enjoyed my trip to Oregon, and, Puget Sound very much. I intend going up to the Sound again in about ten days. I went up for the purpose of getting orders, and, soliciting trade for a firm in this city, and, at the same time took a small stock of goods with me I did very well, and, think that there is a very good opening for a fair trade on the Sound.

It is one of …

Diary Of Dr. Robert H. Rhodes [Incl. Medical Training In New York And Voyage To San Francisco], 1848-1849, 1861, Robert H. Rhodes Dr.

Gold Rush Life

(Note: only page 1 is transcribed) Sept 14th 1848 I took leave of my dear home for New York for the purchase of completing my medical education. What my feelings [were] can be imagined but not described. I had not been absent from home for many years, and I felt [now] that I was taking my leave of all I held dear on earth forever. I expected to be absent for two or three years, and [ ] the changes that must in the common course of events take place. I could not feel otherwise than sad what added to …

The Moral Causes Of The Welfare Of Nations: An Oration, Delivered 1st November, 1834, In The Chapel, Before The Society Of Graduates Of The College..., J. Adams D.D.

Rare Books

The Rev. Jasper Adams, Episcopal minister, President of the College of Charleston, and (ex-officio) Horry Professor of Moral and Political Philosophy delivered this oration on November 1, 1834 before the Society of Graduates of the College of Charleston. Noting that moral causes of the prosperity of nations had been ignored, Rev. Adams reviews and examines the effect of morality on the advancement of nations.