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Yesterday Dean Donham of the Harvard Business School suggested in a radio address two methods of attacking the economic distress of the country. Unemployment the Dean would sweep away by dividing available work among all the men fit for positions. The basic cause of business depression, maladjustment, would be taken care of by a permanently established national planning board. These ideas are not new, but they have hitherto been considered radical, indeed socialistic, and it is a surprising indication of the progress of the times to hear them from the Dean of a Harvard graduate school...
...better times are to return permanently, and employees are to be assured of their jobs, rational planning of the type recommended by Dean Donham should be adopted. The madcap antidotes to end depression tried in the past three years, the buying campaigns and bonus crusades, are symptoms of the irrational attitude toward the crash. Neither witchcraft nor behavioristic psychology cured economic ills. Since this depression is largely the result of factors which could have been brought altogether under control, the suggestion that a national planning board could restore prosperity is attractively rational...
...take place. After a brief business meeting the members will hear C. N. Greenough '98, professor of English and master of the House discuss the House Plan as it stands after its first year. This will be followed by "Business Looks at the Unforseen", a talk by W. B. Donham '98, dean of the School. Tonight's programme will close with an address by an outstanding business man whose name will be announced at the time. The session in the Baker Library tomorrow morning will be occupied by two talks, "The Future of Our Railroads" by W. J. Cunningham, Hill...