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Roger Ward Babson applied to the town of Wellesley Hills, Mass, for permission to establish a private cemetery for himself & kin within the grounds of his Babson's Statistical Organization...
...yard run won by R. J. Beches '31, (ten yards) second G. G. Kirsice 32 third, D. L. Babson '32 (35 yards) Fure...
...sound reason for the advance, but many held that it would be the impetus which Business awaits. Especially encouraging was the strong bond market. From Massachusetts, where about a year ago was sounded the dismal warning which none heeded, last week came a bullish statement. Statistician Roger Ward Babson, 1929-5 most famed "Prophet of Doom," made his first modification of his very bearish stand of last year, his first general recommendation to buy stocks since 1924. Stocks suggested by the Babson Statistical Organization Service were divided into two groups. "Good yield" stocks were: National Dairy Products Corp., General Foods...
...scoffed at bearish forebodings, and even after the bull market had broken he compared its collapse to the failure of a fundamentally sound bank, wrecked only by a psychological "run" of frightened depositors. Professor Fisher's imperfections as clairvoyant were quickly recalled by a rival prophet, Roger Ward Babson of Babson Park, Mass., who said: "It should be recognized that he [Fisher] has changed his position from where he stood when he criticized me in my bearish forecast in ... September 1929. Then he was distinctly bullish on both the stock market and business." Prophet Babson added: "I am not especially...
...effort to hold the Senate on the tariff job when all but one Democrat joined with the Old Guard to vote adjournment 49 to 33. With the end of the session fixed, the Senate dawdled over the tariff, finally turned aside to flay its critics. Statistician Roger Babson who had declared that Congress had fiddled like Nero while the stock-market broke, who had urged it to "stop bickering, adjourn and stay adjourned," was loudly denounced by Senator Borah. Cried the Idaho Senator: ". . . Utterly false and malicious statement! Who is this Babson? A man serving special interests...