Word: economist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thomas F. Logan is just the opposite of the aggressive, hammering, obviously successful Lasker. He is slimmer, fairer, quieter -not smoother, for dynamos of the Lasker type are well-oiled-but gentler, more subtly persuasive. His training was that of a journalist-economist, after a genteel boyhood and Jesuit education in Philadelphia. He was a Washington correspondent and there learned the ins and outs of politics, which stood him in good stead when, in 1919, he started an advertising company in Manhattan with no accounts at all. His first act was to undertake, for the Association of Railroad Executives...
...minimizing the deadening influence of such men. And the cause of the phenomenon is not much farther to seek. Colleges--that is to say, the machinery of education--are being called on to handle a greatly increased load, particularly since the war. Everybody is going to college. And the economist, at least, will not be surprised to realize that, as the demand for education increases, more and more people are attracted to the profession of teaching, not, it must be said, through prospects of a money income, but because of the leisure the academic life is supposed to include...
...this respect, the Caucasian is indeed more fortunate than the American. The worst of his matrimonial evils was the fluctuation of market value due to monopoly control, but the American has to contend with a greater evil, one that defies government interference. This iniquity, the Economist calls cutthroat competition. Surely, the American Romeo, who engages in this sort of financial competition with his rivals when the supply of Romeos is great and that of Juliets small, would prefer to hand over 25, 30, or even 50 dollars to the bride's father as a cheap...
...existing political conditions in Europe are not radically changed, another war is imminent," Mr. Edward Filene, well-known international economist, said in opening his speech on "American Business and World Peace" last night at the Phillips Brooks House. "As long as the people of Europe are in want of food or the other necessities of life, there is bound to be unrest, changing governments and racial atred. At present through the inflation and consequent decline of the European currencies, they are forced to resort to exportation even at a loss to get our foodstuffs in return...
...Students from the peasant and working classes", continued the noted economist, "are not only given a free education by the state, but they are even paid to go to school unless furnished with ample outside means. This aid from the government includes tuition, food, lodging pocket money, and even baths and barber shop attention...