Word: babson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moderator of the National Council of Christian & Congregational Churches, spry, bearded old Statistician Roger Ward Babson, two months ago received a troubled letter from Rev. Theodore C. Hume of Chicago and 14 other Congregational ministers. Mr. Hume and his colleagues wanted to know if Mr. Babson had told his businessmen subscribers, in a special letter of his Babson's Reports, that U. S. churches have accumulated "useless customs and cobwebs"? Had he further remarked that the German Government in emphasizing a creed based on "four simple but vital foundations" (Faith, Blood, Sacrifice, Love) "may be taking a forward step...
When Congregationalist Babson wrote Congregationalist Hume a genial, rambling affirmation of these opinions, both letters were published last month by the alert Congregationalist Advance. Babsonisms on Cobwebs...
Last week the editors of the Advance announced that they had asked Mr. Babson for permission to reprint the special letter in question, received in reply an unexpectedly sour Babsonism. The Reports reminded the Moderator, were a "confidential service," and already "some subscriber had broken faith and violated his contract in making public these statements...
...tail, Professor Fisher ap peared as a witness in their behalf, drawing from energetic Assistant U. S. Attorney William Power Maloney a challenge as to his economic competency. Mr. Fisher, he told the jury, was a "dusty old academic," "a slightly befuddled expert." Shown news stories of Roger Ward Babson's prediction of the 1929 crash, which were publicly pooh-poohed by Mr. Fisher at the time, the white-goateed old Professor declared...
...Babson is a nice gentle man. He receives great publicity and has a large following but he has no academic standing." Convicted with Yalemen Mason & Garland was as pretty a crew of stock-jobbers and boiler-shop operators as ever hooked a widow, including Dave ("The Duke") Durbin, whose sales aids were white spats, a Japanese chauffeur and a Cadillac V16. One of the ablest was a handsome fellow named Walter M. Barr whose specialty was rich old ladies...