Word: economist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Virgil Jordan, chief economist of the National Industrial Council, at its Conference Board meeting in Manhattan: "The business forecaster who attempts to predict the business outlook for the rest of this year and for 1928 is up against it, if he relies upon most of the current and fashionable methods [of prognosticating]. For some reason the old medicine no longer works. . . . There may be a slight further recession in business for a short time, but it is likely to end in a real business boom, rather than in a genuine depression...
...walls of Johns Hopkins Economic Seminary, when my classmate Woodrow Wilson taught there about 1886-1887 were the words of the Swiss Economist Bluntschli: "History is past politics. Politics is present history." TIME fills both orders...
Philip Snowden, onetime Labor Chancellor of the Exchequer, sar donic cripple, brilliant economist (TIME, April 25) : "They who have proposed this bill are hypocrites, and they are fools who by rowdy ism have led this debate to such a fatuous conclusion. . . . As for general strikes, they are general nonsense because they
...Mongolia (TIME, Oct. 29, 1923); Dr. William Lyon Phelps of Yale, optimistic critic of literature; Dr. Irving Fisher of Yale, economist-Prohibitionist; Dr. Max L. Margolis of Dropsie College, philologist and Jewish historian...
...disapproval rose from within the walls of English universities. London University, which enrolls 3,000 students in the world's most imposing school of economics, had needed a man for its .top economics ; chair. The, school's director and governors had 'called from the U.S. able Economist Allyn Abbott Young of Harvard. While Britons grumbled and groused, Director Sir William Beveridge anything but mollified public opinion by admitting frankly that Britain had no suitable candidate. Sir Josiah Stamp, one of the governors, stoutly maintained: "I do not think we could have filled the vacancy any other...