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The article presents information on the schedule of the eighteenth annual meeting of the Southwestern Social Science Association. The first paper, titled Labor Relations in the Southwest, was presented by Edwin A. Elliott, regional director of National Labor Relations Board, on March 26. The second paper, Struggle Between Fascism and Communism in Europe, was presented by E.E. Hale of University of Texas. The other papers for the day were National Banks and Bank Failures and Private Affiliates, by George L. Anderson; Europe's Efforts at Peacemaking, by W.C. Askew of University of Arkansas; French Opinions of the Confideracy, by L.M. Case; A Study of the People of West Texas, by Gus Ford of Houston; The Geography of Ancient Carthage, by Edward E. K&eacaute;so; The Distribution of Mexican Population in the U.S., by Bea Mantooth; Retail Trade as a Primary Urban Function in Oklahoma, by Allen Belden; Survey of Youth in Arkansas, by J.C. London; Survey of Welfare Activities in Oklahoma City, by Fred A. Replogie.

The article presents a paper that systematically examines corporate interlocks among major U.S. corporations from the standpoint of the theory of bank control. Sociologists Robert Fitch and Mary Oppenheimer have produced the latest major restatement of this theory. Fitch and Oppenheimer argue that through the concentration of banking and the convergence of interests among banks, the stockholdings of bank trust departments, the dependence of non-financial corporations on external financing, and the practice of interlocking directorates, a few major banks are able to control the policies of major U.S. corporations. Probably most unfavorable for the theory is the finding that being a bank is only modestly associated with interlocking. This fact could be made consistent with the theory if it was argued that many interlocks occur for reasons unrelated to bank control. Also detrimental to the theory is the finding that all except the very largest insurance companies interlock more like non-financial corporations than banks.

This article presents information on some recent developments in various universities. It is informed that Ivan T. Call, former teaching associate at Indiana University, has been appointed a part-time faculty associate at the Arizona State University. Charles S.K. Jameson has been named assistant professor of Office Administration and Business Education. He was formerly assistant registrar and veterans coordinator, administrative assistant to dean of the School of Business, and instructor at the University of Southern California. It is also reported that Larkin B. Warner, assistant professor at the Oklahoma State University, presented a paper titled "The Economics of the Transportation of Ohio Coal" at the Mid-West Economics Association meeting held at Indianapolis, Indiana, on April 15, 1961. Vincent F. Boland of the University of Arizona has been promoted from assistant professor to associate professor. It is informed that Robert H. Marshall of the University of Arizona has been promoted from assistant professor to associate professor. He has also published an article "Bank Mergers and the Nature of Competition in Banking" in the October 1960 issue of the American Journal of Economics and Sociology.