Word: economist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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David Cushman Coyle has three reputations-engineer, eccentric, economist. As engineer, he designed the Washington State Capitol, worked on the New York Life building, served as technical adviser to PWA. As eccentric, he omitted heating facilities from the second floor of his Bronxville, N.Y. home because he believes people should sleep in cold rooms. As economist, he attended the famous dinner at which Dr. William A. Wirt later said he had heard that Roosevelt was a U.S. Kerensky and that a flock of Reds were waiting to take over the Government; then, with a series of 25? and 50? pamphlets...
Since he is a widely read economist in the U.S., the appearance last week of his first full-length book, a lucid, easy-reading summary of the Coyle philosophy, was news. Certain cobblestones in Roads to a New America* were carefully placed to jolt those who drive too far to the right; others, to jounce left-siders...
...Flesh wounds are frequently inflicted. Paul de Kruif (Microbe Hunters') did not know that "rubeola" means measles. Economist Stuart Chase did not know that ''multiple shops" is British for chain stores. F.P.A. attributed some of his own verses to Dorothy Parker...
...report it issued fortnight ago showing that 32% of the nation's family units and individuals had incomes under $750 a year, 47% under $1,000, 69% under $1,500 (TIME, Sept. 12). Last week the Quarterly Journal of Economics published a somewhat supplementary treatise written by an economist as close to Capital as the National Resources Committee is to the New Deal...
Piqued by the saying that there was increased concentration of wealth, Dr. Rufus Stickney Tucker, rumbly-voiced associate economist for General Motors, year ago began studying The Distribution of Income among Income Taxpayers in the U. S., 1863-1935. His chief conclusions, which he presents in a mass of charts: There is a great concentration of wealth, but it is far less than it once was, for "persons with incomes equivalent in purchasing power to between 4,000 and 10,000 1929 dollars have become a much larger proportion of the population since 1916, and those with incomes equivalent...