Word: councill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...very well with the C.I.O.'s Secretary-Treasurer James B. Carey or some of the farm leaders who appeared before the committee. They thought that there was still danger of inflation, and that the President should get what he asked for. So did John D. Clark of the Council of Economic Advisers, who said: "If this inflationary boom levels off by itself, it will be a new experience...
...Definition. At week's end, white-haired Dr. Edwin G. Nourse, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, dug up a word for what was going on. The gaunt old (65) ex-professor, who had spent 23 years with the Brookings Institution, has long been a middle-of-the-road economist who sometimes seems to be trimming his square-rigged economic sails to the Administration's wind. He neatly dodged predicting either inflation or deflation. What the country was going through, he said, was "disinflation" (a five-dollar word for burp). It was quite a different thing from...
Regional National Student Association forces suffered a major setback Saturday when 15 local colleges, meeting at Babson Institute in Wellesley, approved, over NSA opposition, a greater Boston Student Council Governments conference...
Frederic D. Houghteling 50, the only representative of the Harvard Student Council at the meeting, voted against he group's constitution. Radcliffe's Student Government delegates cast their votes...
Both objections were overruled, and Houghteling, who is regional vice-chairman of NSA, announced at the end of the one hour and ton minute debate, "I shall have to report to my Student Council that a five page document (the constitution) was pushed through almost without discussion. I do not think they will prove...