Word: chase
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Scholarships: Anonymous $200,000.00 Friends and Family, William L. Boyden '86 21,000.00 Anonymous, for a Harvard National Scholarship "to bear the name of John Lowell Gardner" 25,000.00 Anonymous--a graduate formerly residing on the Pacific Coast, now in business in New York City 5,675.00 Mrs. George Chase Christian, for the "George Chase Christian Memorial Scholarships" for students from Minnesota, preferably in the graduate schools 50,000.00 Mr. and Mrs. Grenville Clark 11,039.60 Ernest L. Conant '84, for the "Conant - Allison Scholarship" 25,000.00 Mrs. W. Bayard Cutting, Mrs. Bayard James, and Marchesa Origo, for the "Bronson...
Among U. S. economists. Stuart Chase has a reputation for being the best storyteller of the lot. Master of the art of leading audiences up the mountain, he has held out bold and attractive visions of happy economic futures, plausible-sounding and easily-attained, in most of the sprightly, bright, informal, argumentative volumes he has written in the past eleven years. Interspersing his books with anecdotes, personal reminiscences, moral tirades against waste, he has always discussed human problems as an economist, economic problems as an evangelist, political problems as an engineer, and philosophic problems as an irascible citizen who wants...
...book is somewhat like an old-fashioned geography turned upside down. Beginning with a discussion of rivers, plains, mountain ranges, rainfall, Stuart Chase proceeds to long, eloquent, angry lament on the squandering of native riches. Like the Whitman of a bankrupt country, he composes a great catalog of lost national wealth, including the buffalo, the passenger pigeon, eastern salmon, Pacific halibut, petroleum, timber, coal, the great auk, the Carolina parakeet, the drought-impoverished Dust Bowl. It is a disturbing account, calculated to make any responsible citizen treasure every green tree and each clear brook of his native land. The oyster...
Most readers are likely to feel that Economist Chase's remedy is as dubious as his account of the need for its telling. With high praise for the Tennessee Valley Authority, for the Civilian Conservation Corps and other public work projects, he envisions a great campaign to protect U. S. resources that would create five million jobs, stop unemployment and beautify the country as well. For arguments about costs he has shrewd answers, pointing out that Boulder Dam, by preventing a flood in 1935. saved the Imperial Valley at least $10,000,000. Holding that confidence is the basic...
...Stuart Chase, far behind the times, does not report that the last of this species was given up for dead in 1932. Three survivors remained on Martha's Vineyard until 1928, dwindled to a ten-year-old heath cock that regularly appeared at its traditional courting field, ''boomed" and cockled in a forlorn effort to attract a mate. Efforts to mate it with the prairie chicken proving unsuccessful, the lonely fowl abandoned its solitary courtship in the spring of 1930, was seen for the last time in March...