Word: beardsley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...potent, hardheaded Committee for Economic Development this week came to the rescue of the Bretton Woods proposals. C.E.D.'s research committee-including Boston Banker Ralph E. Flanders and Tax Expert Beardsley Ruml-analyzed criticisms of the Fund and found that, so far as they were valid, they could best be met by giving the Bank power to make long term loans, when necessary, to stabilize a nation's currency. But C.E.D. declared that scrapping the Fund would be a serious loss. In short, C.E.D. came out for both Bank and Fund, with more power for the Bank...
...Economic Planner Beardsley Ruml: $140,000,000,000; 55 million jobs...
Died. Arthur Symons, 79, British litterateur who outlived the mauve elegance of his contemporaries (Wilde, Beardsley, et al.) to become a respected critic; in Wittersham, Kent, England. As a translator, he introduced to the English-speaking world the Continental refinements of Verlaine, Baudelaire, D'Annunzio. His best-received book, Confessions (1930), was an autobiographical account of an overly sensitive mind lost in Italy and recovered in a British asylum...
...years ago a Ruml plan led to a revolution in the way the U.S. collects its taxes. Last week, in his first book, Tomorrow's Business (Farrar & Rinehart; $2.50), rotund Beardsley Ruml unveiled a new plan. This time Mr. Ruml was far more ambitious. He aimed at something like a revolution in the way 1) many U.S. businessmen think; 2) the U.S. thinks about business...
Like most well-heeled businessmen who decide to write a book, the first thing Beardsley Ruml did was to hire a ghost writer to do it for him. This did not work out. So Ruml squeezed enough time from his other jobs (treasurer of R. H. Macy & Co., chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, etc.) to set down his liberal business gospel in his own adding-machine style...