Word: economist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inoculated women against pregnancy. Four or five doses of serum made from spermatazoa has made women infertile for from five to six months, when further injections continued the temporary sterility. Chief mover of last week's conference was Mrs. Frederick Robertson Jones, wife of a famed Manhattan insurance economist. She has been president of the Ameri- can Birth Control League since Mrs. Margaret Higgins Sanger resigned in 1928. Brown-haired, slim, energetic, mother of two college daughters (Bryn Mawr, Yassar) herself a Radcliffe graduate, she has made Birth Control a learned, professional, socialite movement...
...Volstead Act are so agitated at the present time is because they have hurled a definite challenge at President Hoover," said Thomas Nixon Carver, David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy, when asked to comment on statements made in behalf of Prohibition by Professor Irving Fisher, Yale economist, in a recent address. "If he succeeds in improving conditions as they are, and materially cutting down the evil as it now exists, the main argument of the wets will be gone. They have been hurling the lack of enforcement into the faces of their opponents for so long that it would...
...survey by some outstanding economist of the effect of Prohibition on Industry...
...citizens who are weary of bridge, ping-pong, cards-in-the-hat, yet who cannot endure the strain of an evening without a game in some form, were last week offered a new and original pastime invented by so famed an author as Norman Angell, British economist and pacifist. Called The Money Game and published by E. P. Dutton & Co. in the unique form of an explanatory book bound with a box of cards, the new entertainment purports to combine the thrill of cards with instruction in finance...
Authentic these facts are, for last week the American Institute of Steel Construction worked them out after a two-year study. Employed in the long study were William Clifford Clark, chief economist of S. W. Straus & Co., and a group of skilled architects, construction engineers, elevator engineers, steel men, electricians, plumbers, rental agents, building managers...