Word: dickinson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tariff and foreign trade program for his Administration. To his office he called George N. Peek, once head of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, Secretaries Hull, Wallace and Roper; Robert Lincoln O'Brien, chairman of U. S. Tariff Commission, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Tugwell, Assistant Secretary of Commerce Dickinson, Assistant Secretary of State Sayre, Harry F. Payer, foreign trade adviser to RFC, Stanley Reid, RFC counsel and Oscar B. Ryder, chief of the Imports Division...
...President Roosevelt transmitted to Congress "for its information" copies of a report on stock exchange regulation prepared for him by a committee headed by Assistant Secretary of Commerce John Dickinson. The report being a trial balloon, the President announced that he had not read it, recommended no action. Its chief points: 1) A Federal stock exchange authority should be created to license and regulate stock exchanges. 2) The stock exchanges' power to discipline members is far superior to anything the Government could devise and should not be discarded. 3) Pools, specialists, and short selling all have their good points...
...Yesterday" column of Monday's CRIMSON reference was made to "the spiritual followers of Lord Hewart" and the "writers of angry books on bureaucracy." As John Dickinson, Assistant Secretary of Commerce, once pointed out to some of us, the word, "bureaucracy" has an emotional significance which causes a man of scientific leanings to shun its use in scientific discussion. Nevertheless, there remain grave dangers inherent in a civil service when the methods of selecting its members has been as informal as that of the Administration during the past eleven months. The President has surrounded himself with a new hierarchy...
...Harvard professors never admit that they don't know anything," said John Dickinson, Assistant Secretary of Commerce, and formerly a professor of Government at Harvard. "They don't realize that we can't get absolute truths; we are all only gropers. I didn't like Harvard very much...
Score: Dartmouth, 54. Harvard 20. Goals: Edwards 4, Bonniwell 4, Grady 3, Comfort 2, Krivitsky 2, Miller 2, Davis 2, Kraszewski 2, Dickinson 2, Levine 2, Merry 1, Ernst 1, McKernan 1, Stangle 1, Hubbell 1, Fouls: Bonniwell 4, Merry 3, Boys 2, McKernan 1, Kraszewski 1, Hubbell 1, Grady 1. Referee: Kenney, Umpire: Degnan. Time: two 20-minute halves...