Word: beardsley
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Cautious Proposal. The first of the U.S. plans offered was cautious. Wholly unofficial, it was the work of Businessmen Beardsley Ruml and Hans Christian Sonne. Their key proposal: tax revenues that would balance the budget only at "high" employment, defined as 55 million people working 40 hours weekly. Their greatest concession to the "spending" theory: public works to keep the construction industry on an even keel. But, although they made a sound banking system, a sound dollar and free enterprise their prime goals and regarded high employment only as something to be "promoted," they gingerly crossed the Great Economic Divide...
...Beardsley Ruml and Hans Christian Sonne, Fiscal and Monetary Policy, Planning Pamphlet No. 35 (25?), National Planning Assoc.; Employment Policy (60?), Macmillan; Sir William Beveridge, Full Employment in a Free Society (sixpence), New Statesman and Nation and Reynolds News; Full Employment Bill of 1945, 78th Congress, and Session...
...advertising plugs, piped directly into clubs, hospitals, restaurants, factories. Bill Benton decided to apply the same system to radio. He lined up big-name sponsors for such a project, including his old partner, Chester Bowles, now OPA boss; the University of Chicago's Robert M. Hutchins; Businessman Beardsley Ruml. He laid his plan before the Federal Communications Commission (retiring FCC Chairman James L. Fly is expected to join the group). This week the group is incorporating as Subscription Radio...
Every evening he pushed aside his ledgers and fled to the bars of west London-the Cock, the Crown, the Cheshire Cheese, the Café Royal-where he found his friends Max Beerbohm, Aubrey Beardsley, Yeats, Symons and sometimes his French idol, Poet Paul Verlaine. At the first pub he would order absinthe, then quickly jot down the verses that had swum in his head during the day. That done, he would hurry on to a small, cheap Soho restaurant called the Poland, where he conducted one of the strangest, most fruitless courtships in literary history...
Businessman-Planner Beardsley Ruml: $140 billion...