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Focuses on faults of the American journalism and the scope of improving it. Factors responsible for some improvement in American journalism; Role played by the American Newspaper Guild to increase the self-respect of the individual newspaperman; Prevalence of the censorship authority exercised by publishers; Drift of the newspaper into the hands of money-minded men who are interested in profits; Danger posed by monopoly in the press; Increasing tendency toward standardized and syndicated material; Over-representation of the middle class in the press; Need of newspapers with a far smaller capital investment, so that genuine competition will more easily be possible.

The article presents information about two books: "Douglas of the Supreme Court" and "The Public Papers of Chief Justice Earl Warren." Half of The Public Papers of Chief Justice Earl Warren and much the greater part of Douglas of the Supreme Court are selections of opinions. Offerings of this sort, a bit of a fashion in recent years, are extremely treacherous business at best. Of the many difficulties and dangers they are fraught with, hardly one occurs to the author that is solved or avoided in either of these books.

Part I. Examines key issues concerning the absentee ownership of the American economy. Setting forth what is already known about the control of major industries and different geographic regions; Questions raise on the issue for further exploration; Implications on American industries and the economy.

Focuses on the dissolution of Standard Oil Co. in the U.S. Dissolution of the company in 1911 on paper only, bearing the seal of the U.S.; Claims that when dissolved the company controlled probably eighty percent of the business; Division of the Company; Importance of the geographical groups, which are the Eastern Group and the Midwestern group; Information about South Dakota, which is in the recognized territory of the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana.

Presents information about various farm journals. Need of farm journals; Topics covered in the journals; Claims that one issue of Successful Farming alone boasts seventy solid pages of motor cars and tires; Comments on the advertising section of farm journals; Report that economic isolation would be suicidal to agriculture.

Presents information on the author's experience of working in the advertising industry. Circumstances which led him to opt for a career in advertising; Account of how he completed his first advertising-copy assignment; Information on the institution where he served his advertising apprenticeship; Description of the nature and physical features of the person under whom the author was an apprentice; Difficulties faced by the author while copywriting.

Focuses on the influence of the 1929 stock-market crash on business in the U.S. Assessment of the purchasing power and money losses by speculators; Maintenance of the prices in the market; Supply of stocks.

The article presents news related to the newspaper strike in the United States. It was reported that in the absence of newspaper advertising, the holiday retail trade fell off about seven percent in volume. Various other cities in which the newspapers were distributed as usual reported a falling off in trade to five percent below the figures for the previous year. It dynamited the psychological block that was deep-rooted in the minds of the merchants that without heavy newspaper advertising, the holiday trade would severely suffer.

Focuses on the political and socio-economic issues in the U.S. Possibility for President Calvin Coolidge to run for the Senate in Massachusetts following his term of office; Accounts on the business interests of the country; Emphasis on the anti-third-term tradition of the country for the President.

Focuses on the conflict between two hostile American institutions struggling for supremacy. Idea to reorganize public schools to fit the children for industry; Indication of a nation-wide movement to limit school opportunities to cut education costs; Introduction to the concept of platoon school; Analysis of platoon school in Chicago; Emphasis on reasons for the failure to build schools; Understanding of harm to the children involved in the platoon system; Focus on evils of this mechanicalized system of education, the platoon schools.

Focuses on the role played by home facsimile in disseminating news. Information that the facsimile can be used only when a facsimile-equipped FM station is in the vicinity; Quality of pictures received is good, but "faxed" print looks somewhat quavery; Statement that the inventors hope to improve its appearance by designing more radio-genic type faces; Information that the prohibitive cost of setting up a standard metropolitan newspaper will conceivably send many aspiring publishers into the home-facsimile-newspaper business.

Focuses on the newspaper, Your Newspaper's indictment of the press for wholesale abuse of the American Society of Newspaper Editors' code of ethics. Criticisms posed by the authors on business and economic reporting; Description of the failure of business news in relating a news item to its implications; Recollection of the press handling of the 1946 railroad strike as one of the most amazing performances in the annals of journalism.

Focuses on several political and economic developments around the world. Problem of Italian aggression against Ethiopia and France; Decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in Schechter case, declaring National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) unconstitutional; Criticisms on the announcement of low wage scales for the work-relief program; Decision taken by the U.S. Supreme Court holding NIRA invalid; Impact of gold prices on an economy; Information on a U.S. President's message on Patman bill that provides plenty of money for veterans disabled in a war; Comments on the article "N.R.S. Sculptors and Chiselers," that shows ingenious business is in nullifying regulation; Referendum in the U.S. stating that wheat growers would give a six-to-one majority in favor of continuation of crop restriction; Law suit by two Newark corporations, the Clark Blade and Razor Co. and the Clark Blade Selling Corp. for $24,000,000 against the Gillette Razor Blade Co. on the ground that it sought to monopolize the razorblade industry, in violation of the federal anti-trust law; Appointment of Huey P. Long as the Tax Collector for the state of Louisiana; Dismissal of several technicians from the Columbia University Medical School presumably because of their pacifist activities; Decision that Havard now joins Williams, Princeton and Amherst in the list of American colleges and universities that have succeeded in banning the Hearst-Metrotone newsreel; Campaign conducted by columnist Arthur Brisbane encouraging people to get married; Competition over arts that leads to commerce.

Focuses on several socio-political issues around the world. Announcement made by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt that the general policies of the New Deal and the government will continue to supervise business; Discussion on provisions of the Five-Year Plan, with respect to postponement of the Russo-Japanese War; Reintroduction of the Pure Food and Drugs bill in the Senate; Participation of Yale University undergraduates in the protest of workers in a New Haven foundry; Circumstances under which faculty members at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, were dismissed; Consent of Nicolas Titulescu, leader of the Liberal Party, to assume the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Rumania; Remarks of Secretary Dick Wallace regarding the increase in prices of consumer goods.

Discusses key issues concerning marine transportation in business in the U.S. Necessary differences between domestic and foreign traffic; Paths of export trade that cannot be smoothed merely by the provision of a merchant marine; Implications on transportation and international trade.

Focuses on foreign relations between the United States and Japan. Reference to the prevalence of a dichotomy in the traditional American outlook on Japan; Perplexity in minds of American politicians regarding how to frame policies for trade with Japan; Advantages of rise of a new democratic order in Japan; Fundamental aspects of the Japanese social structure; Discussion of postwar policy of the U.S. toward Japan.

Provides the details of the conversation between the author and a telephone coupon salesman. Description provided by the salesman on how he markets his coupons; Anti-competitive strategy of the salesman; Claims of the salesman on how he promised to revolutionize the retail trade with his products; Salesman's comparison of his telephone coupons with that of trading stamps; Views of the salesman about competition.

Focuses on the prevalence of communistic principles and communism in the U.S. Feelings of the citizens of the U.S. towards the Germans, as a measure for unconscious communism; Discussion on relations of the U.S. with Germany; Description of Germany and the Germans; Influence of private business in Germany and its economic benefits.

Focuses on the need to control the behavior of the stock exchange, with reference to the conditions of the Wall Street. Disturbance which the vagaries of stock speculation cause; Effects of the diversion of savings and credit to operations in stocks; Impact of stock speculation by businessmen on the industry and trade; Usefulness of the stock market in a capitalist order; Need to found some means which will adjust the issuance of securities more closely to the real needs of industry, not allowing it to depend on the profits of the promoters and stock-selling institutions.

Looks at the economic conditions in the United States. Availability of a large volume of credit to speculators; Raising of the Federal Reserve re-discount rate; Inability of the Washington conference in limiting submarine construction.

Focuses on the emergence of the cooperative movement. Role of the cooperative movement; Description of the largest distributive businesses in Great Britain and Germany; Aims of cooperative organizations.

Focuses on the role of stockholders in businesses. Recognition of the responsibility of stockholders for the conduct of business which yields the profits; Consideration of the role of proxies in businesses; Perplexity about the morals of dividend-drawing; Need for the ultimate control of the industry to be passed from the owners of the capital to those who work by hand or brain.

Focuses on a letter and speech given by politician Lloyd George on April 16, 1919. Comments on the policy of the Allies in the matter of civil war in Soviet Union; Information about two cardinal points of a Russian policy; Claims that armistice and amnesty are dependent upon effective guarantees; Comments on the growth of Bolshevism in Soviet Union; Reports on the dispatch of a general international economic commission which shall arrange for a regulated resumption of trade.

Focuses on the need for trade policy in the United States. Pricing method of the government; Experiences of the businessmen who constitute the committees of the Council of National Defense and of the Advisory Commission of the Council of National Defense; Government's acquisition of goods at just prices; President Woodrow Wilson's speech on prices; Government pool method; Price Board reporting to the President; Course of certain primary commodities.

Focuses on the rise of the U.S. stock market. Vigilance of the Securities and Exchange Commission on rigging operations; Advertisement on the market rise from business interests; Features about the present business situation.

Presents several advice to the U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt about business. Importance of interaction between the businessmen and government executives; Consideration on the demand of businessmen for reduction taxes; Involvement in the business cycle.

Presents author's views on the confusion among the citizens of the U.S. as to whether President Franklin D. Roosevelt is turning to the right or to the left politically. His resolution to give business a chance to see what it can do; Resistance to new currency tinkering, the bonus legislation and long steps in social insurance; Encouragement of public ownership of power plants; Crackdown on the high rates of utilities; President's policies denounced as movements to the left or even as socialism, though as a matter of fact they include only the most moderate of reforms or even kinds of experiment that believers in a new order would not themselves sanction; Account of the policies adopted by the President.

Focuses on a poll of 65,000 persons that shows a decided drift away from the U.S. government during the past few months. Declamation against regimentation and argument that government should let business run its own affairs, without recognizing that most of the regimentation that exists has come from organized business itself; Opposition of the New Deal by the American people; Discussion of the condition of unemployed people of the U.S.

Comments on the speeches of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson. Problem of the relationship between politics and business; Grievances of the business sector against politics; Endeavor of the businessmen to secure uninterrupted stability; Suffering of business from political interference; Declaration of a solution to businessmen's trouble by President Wilson; Impact of the work of reconstruction on commerce.

Reports that blurbs begins to reappear in large number. Fundamental principles of salesmanship that those who have something to sell to the world usually sell it to themselves first of all; Origin of the idea of blurbs by the French novelist Alexandre Dumas in his novels; Publishers can have an exact idea of what book-buying vibrations are set up to a member of the public by the use of word vibrating; Value of blurbs in private life.

Focuses on a grade-labeling program in the U.S. for canned foods. Information about grade labeling, a tool in price-ceiling enforcement; Comments of buyers who exert great pressure on the canners against labeling; Fear of trade-marking canner and the private-label buyer, who are afraid of losing favored markets and price premiums; Effect of grade labeling on the U.S. economy. Support given by the food industry to grade labeling as a mean of obtaining more business and larger profits.

Focuses on the abortive conference between the Cloak Manufacturers' Association and the union. Emphasis on the union's call for a protocol, agreement or understanding with the employers; Purpose of the agreement in preventing the outbreak in the future of such senseless and futile conflicts; Plans of manufacturers of having an ideal independence in which they could run its shop without consulting unionists, social reformers and journalists.

Focuses on the opportunity for increasingly intimate business relations between the U.S. and South America discussed during the Pan-American conferences. Means of satisfying the expanding home markets and in supplying Europe with raw materials and manufactured specialties; Importance of establishing an effective selling agencies in order to build up an American export trade with South America.

Reports that within the past few weeks, the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) charged two prominent brokerage houses with violating federal anti-brand regulations. Evidence shown by SEC to show that the New York Stock Exchange in many ways remains "an exclusive private club," run for the benefit of its members and not necessarily those 24 million Americans who own stock and who thus are "shareholders in American business; Argument that despite the SEC's periodic warnings against speculation, those 24 million "shareholders in American business" keep stepping up their stock buying and selling.

Reprints several excerpts of articles from newspapers and magazines in the U.S. that tackle issues relevant to government and society. Role of the government system in the favored position of the U.S. as a business nation; Stock exchanges; Spirit of good-neighborliness.

Focuses on the round table on business and finance organized by the Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. Involvement of the New York Stock Exchange in the selection of the speakers; Publicity generated by the roundtable and the speakers; Implications for the process of higher education in the United States.

Presents several news items published in various newspapers. Complaint of U.S. physicians, most of whom hold the rank of captain, that they had to make their quarters in the Number One Cargo hold and eat with enlisted men; Feeling of civil leaders that amputees on the boardwalk at Atlantic City, New Jersey, depress visitors and therefore hurt business; Statement that all citizens, regardless of race, color or creed, are equal in American law, and American law does not provide for mixtures and messes.

This article focuses on the current political and economic issues in Washington state. One of the economists told that recession in the business has begun. Chairman of Reserve Board declared that the economy is practically bursting at seams. Instead of lowering interest rates to check a business contraction the Reserve Board, with administration backing, raised interest rates in the mid summer of 1957 to check a supposed expansion. The figures have been given of committee chairmanships which the South will hold in the new U.S. Congress. The figures are these, in the old Senate, the South held 53 percent of the chairmanships of standing committees. It will hold the same percentage now.

The article focuses on the power of conservative government. In 1956 the Conservative Government, though provided with an ample parliamentary majority and not threatened with early elections, seems in danger of losing its hold over the electorate. The tale of economic ups and downs since 1946 discloses a pattern of sudden spurn in economic activity in trade expansion and in investment followed by violent payments crises compelling the authorities to damp down on imports, investments and living standards.

Focuses on the business of newspaper through advertisements. Report that the only way to increase the manufacture of munitions, ships and the necessities of war is to divert labor and materials from the production of luxuries; Information about contents in newspapers; Reasons why no newspaper could raise its voice against advertisers; Claims that the manufacturers of non-essentials make up the bulk of their advertisers.