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When Roger W. Babson, famed statistician, last month told the Market it was riding to a fall, and then the Market quickly rallied from the depression caused by his statement, Mr. Babson was flayed by all the financial writers in New York whose pleasure it is to reflect the views of their friends, the brokers. "A statistician who has been always wrong"-"A man for whose opinion the market has no great regard"-"A chronic bear always predicting disaster"-were typical introductory sentences to Babson-flaying opinions. Last week the Market broke and the commentators either blamed the Hatry incident...
Perhaps Mr. Babson was only fractionally vindicated. For though stocks went down last week more than in any other week for a year, October's second week opened with a comeback. Incidents...
That Grace Knight Babson, wife of financial prognosticator Roger Ward Babson, conducts a business school, Webber College, for young lady heiresses at Babson Park, Fla., is not news. That for the first time the school will operate for nine months, spending the Fall and Spring terms in Boston with classrooms in the gaudy Hotel Lenox, is news...
...appreciate this opportunity to say a word to the generation which presently will assume the responsibility of our banks, utilities, rail-roads, factories and all other assets," said Roger W. Babson, leading financial expert, to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday...
...learned men about him to dispense information. He called the group the Mentor Association and the dispensing medium, then hardly more than a pamphlet, The Mentor. In the group were such specialists as the late great Luther Burbank (plants), Augustus Thomas (plays), Daniel Carter Beard (outdoor life), Roger M. Babson (figures), Fritz Kreisler (music). Like its organizers, The Mentor itself was a specialist, devoted each issue to a single topic...