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Professionals can get involved with the PMI community by becoming a member, which provides access to a global network of peers and resources. Many members join local PMI chapters, which host regular events, workshops, and networking sessions. Online, PMI's projectmanagement.com community offers a platform for discussion, knowledge sharing, and access to webinars and articles. Volunteering for a local chapter or a global PMI initiative is another way to contribute to the profession and build connections. #### What is the difference between PMP and CAPM? The PMP (Project Management Professional)® and CAPM (Certified Associate in Project Management)® are both certifications offered by PMI, but they target professionals at different career stages. The CAPM is an entry-level certification designed for individuals with little or no project experience, validating their understanding of fundamental project management knowledge and terminology. 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Last week these names made this news: A man appeared in John P. Morgan’s outer office. He said he had come about Mr. Morgan’s manuscript of Vol. I of Sir Walter Scott’s Guy Mannering, mysteriously stolen from a loan exhibition last autumn at Columbia University (TIME, Dec. 5). He was whisked in at once to Mr. Morgan. For five months world police had been watching pawnshops and “fences” for the MS. The man said quietly, “Would you be interested in getting back Guy Mannering on a basis of no questions asked, no money paid?” Mr. Morgan said, “Yes.” The man left and soon a messenger brought the manuscript to the Morgan Library. In his home in Abington, Pa. Lessing Julius Rosenwaldt board chairman of Sears. Roebuck & Co., answered the telephone. The voice he heard was that of a man who had sent him three letters demanding $100,000 on pain of “cruel, ruthless and vicious death” for him. his wife and five children. On another telephone Mr. Rosenwald’s family telephoned police who traced the call, then raced to the store from which the voice came. Mr. Rosenwald went on talking. Said he afterwards: “First we talked about the money and tried to effect a compromise, and you know that always takes time in any transaction. . . . Then I said whatever came into my mind. . . . You can’t let those things get on your nerves, you know. You’ve got to handle them in a calm way.” After nine minutes of palaver a third voice broke in and told Mr. Rosenwald that police had nabbed one Charles Weil, 29, unemployed clerk. In 1928 one “Frances Jo Wagner” was hired as a file clerk in the office of Advertising Man Bruce Barton, After a few weeks one Hugh King came and panted that Barton had been intimate with his wife, Gertrude Gussenhaven Wagner King. “Frances Jo Wagner” left. Later the man sued his wife for divorce, naming Bruce Barton as corespondent, sued Barton for alienation of affections. On advice of his company’s lawyers Barton settled for $25,000 and got quit-claims from man & wife. Last November the woman sued for $250,000 more, charging that Barton had warned other advertising agencies against hiring her. Trying another way of making a living, she wrote a book in which a principal character is named “Roos Martin.” Last week the Manhattan Grand Jury indicted her on a charge of having threatened Bruce Barton with publishing the book if he did not pay her $50,000\. At the same time Barton’s lawyers moved for a quick trial of her $250,000 suit. Agents for Victor Emanuel, horsey Manhattan broker, aftef being repeatedly eluded, seized the Rolls-Royce coupe of John Barry Ryan, eccentric son of the late Financier Thomas Fortune Ryan, in part satisfaction of a judgment of $37,353.46 obtained by Mr. Emanuel for rent on a piece of la>nd near Belmont Park racetrack where Mr. Ryan had thought of starting a racing stable. The Pennsylvania Railroad last week sued Mr. Ryan for $6,000 for parking charges on his private car in its Long Island city yards. Minnesota’s Representative Francis Henry Shoemaker, truculent Farmer-Laborite, listened for three nights to revelry across the court in his Washington apartment house. He complained by telephone, finally went to see the revelers. One Theodore Cohen quoted Shoemaker as saying: “I am the only exconvict in Congress\* and I am hardboiled. I know how to handle Jews. I’m another Hitler.” Then he punched Cohen in the eye. knocking him to the floor. Soon Shoemaker’s doctor came & sewed up Cohen’s face. Next day Cohen tried in vain to get a warrant for Shoemaker’s arrest on charges of assault & battery. First, Shoemaker agreed to waive his Congressional immunity and stand trial. Later he changed his mind. Said he: “If it were for myself alone, I wouldn’t hesitate for I could beat the case without trouble. But a number of the members \[of the House\] are afraid if I waive immunity they will be bothered in the future by charges for little things. . . .” Finally he changed his mind again and agreed to a trial by jury. A mob of long unpaid, tatterdemalion Chicago schoolteachers invaded big Chicago banks to demand cooperation between banks and the taxless school board. Melvin Alvah Traylor put them off with an “I agree with you.” Charles Gates Dawes cowed them with: “To hell with trouble makers.” Sequels To news of bygone weeks, herewith sequels from last week’s news: ¶ To the unsolved death of Zachary Smith Reynolds, Camel cigaret scion (TIME, July 18): agreement between the Reynolds family, his second wife Elsbeth (“Libby”) Holman Reynolds and his first wife Anne Cannon Reynolds, towel heiress, awarding $2,000,000 each to his two children, Libby Reynolds’ son Zachary Smith Jr. and Anne Cannon Reynolds II. ¶ To the Chicago kidnapping of John (“Jake the Barber”) Factor’s son Jerome (TIME, April 24): Jerome’s return early one morning. Factor claimed he had gulled the kidnappers by publishing a letter he had written to himself, boosting the ransom price. They began to suspect a traitor among themselves. \* The U. S. Constitution does not bar . ex-convicts from holding office. The Minnesota State Constitution does. Shoemaker’s seat is now being contested on the ground that his prison term lost him his citizenship. In 1930 a St. Paul judge gave him a suspended sentence for mailing a letter to a banker addressed “robber of orphans and widows.” Shoemaker roundly criticized judge & sentence in his newspaper The Organized Farmer. The judge sent him to Leavenworth Penitentiary for contempt of court. Last week in Congress Shoemaker charged that a “foreign power not overfriendly to the U. S.” was backing Cuban revolutionaries in the U. S. He proposed an investigation. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6891119/people-sequels-4/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6891119/people-sequels-4/"},"headline":"People: Sequels (1 May 1933)","datePublished":"1933-05-01T04:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-23T16:20:03.127Z","description":"Names make news. Last week these names made this news: A man appeared in John P. 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