Word: economist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...view, there may well be a similar rise in wheat prices before election, with vast potential consequences to Robert M. La Follette and to the nominees of the Republican and Democratic parties. During the week, wheat rose 8? on the Chicago markets. Professor David L. Friday, famed agricultural economist, predicted $1.25 wheat by election time and $1.35 wheat by next December...
...curtain raiser to the drama of the giants, Dr. Thomas Sewall Adams, Professor of Political Economy at Yale University, resigned from government work. The eminent economist had been employed as special adviser to the committee investigating the Internal Revenue Bureau. Writing to Senator "Jim" Watson, he said: "To probe for the sake of probing impresses me-if I may say so without offense-as a particularly demoralizing form of child's play...
...Coleman is great grandson of Pierre du Pont de Nemours, French economist-statesman, friend of Thomas Jefferson. Pierre came to America and began manufacturing gunpowder in Delaware during the French Revolution. T. Coleman was born in Louisville in 1863, graduated from Urbana University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he was stroke of the crew, captain of the football and baseball teams, "ran the 100 in ten seconds" (despite his 6 ft. 4 in. and 210 Ibs.), shot, swam, boxed, wrestled. He started work with pick and shovel in a coal mine, being an active member of the miners...
...party in England. The present dead-lock between Conservatives, Liberals, and Laborites cannot continue, and the next election, which must come in the near future will see the beginning of the disintegration of the Liberal Party." In an interview yesterday with a CRIMSON reporter, A. Emil Davies, prominent English economist, banker, capitalist, and Labor Party leader, stated that in his opinion, this is the most significant conclusion to be drawn from the recent parliamentary elections...
This is purely a matter of convenience. As the London Economist pointed out, " Such a course would at least make it unnecessary to continue counting in millions...