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...Received a proposal from Thomas Dunbar Green, president of American Hotels Association, that hotels throughout the land donate a daily quota of soup and bread to hungry jobless...
When Joe Cook (born Lopez) was 8 he organized a circus parade of his contemporaries and in blue tights, playing a mandolin, led it down Maple Street in Evansville, Ind. riding on his stepfather's horse. Later he became assistant to the Great Doctor Dunbar, medical showman; still later he was a juggler, tumbler, musician, dancer, ventriloquist. After touring the U. S. in vaudeville acts he became a Manhattan headliner in the Vanities. In his house at Lake Hopatcong, N. J., resting on a silver standard, is a baseball which Babe Ruth has not autographed. On his private golf...
...Review of Reviews published it (1918). In 1919 Author Dennett republished the article separately; in 1922 the Post Office declared it unmailable; in 1928 a Washington (D. C.) member of the D. A. R. found her daughter reading it. She complained to a Post Office inspector, one C. E. Dunbar, who wrote for a copy under an assumed name, received it by mail, instituted proceedings against the author. By then 25,000 copies had been sold...
Fourteen years after Charles F. Dunbar was appointed Professor of Economics in Harvard University, the first provision was made for promoting economic research. In 1885 the Department of Economics received from Mr. John Eliot Thayer a gift of $15,000 for publication and research, which made possible in 1886 the establishment of the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the first periodical in the United States devoted exclusively to that subject. Under the editorial charge first of Dunbar and then of F. W. Taussig, the new Journal immediately made a distinguished place for itself in the economic world. Without closing its pages...
That so much was accomplished last year justifies us in regarding 1928 as a landmark in the history of the Department of Economics fairly comparable with the appointment of Dunbar to the first professorship in 1871, the establishment of the Quarterly Journal of Economics in 1886, and the appointment of the first Committee on Economic Research in 1917. That original Committee, so far as I have yet been able to learn, was the first organization ever established in any university for the purpose of making permanent provision for economic research. Form its efforts have come, first, the Harvard Economic Society...