Word: economist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Professor Arnold's name was on the tongue of many an inquisitive businessman as well as of many a parlor economist, for he had written a book. Put out quietly last month by Yale University Press, The Folklore of Capitalism achieved so much word-of-mouth advertising that last week its first printing was being rapidly exhausted in book stores from coast to coast...
...bitterest index of bad times, is not the best, for the U. S. has never found a satisfactory way of measuring it. Last week, however, Government estimates of unemployment increases, varying widely in figures, were in complete basic agreement: unemployment is growing by leaps & bounds. Leon Henderson, onetime NRA economist, estimated in a study made for WPA that 2,000,000 workers have lost their jobs since September 1, that between 1,000,000 and 2,000,000 more will do so before February 1. Acting WPAdministrator Aubrey Williams reported that 100,000 names had been added to WPA rolls...
...Cabinet fortnight ago, M. Paul Emile Janson went before Parliament last week as head of another Cabinet, the first Liberal Premier of Belgium since 1884. Brussels political experts figure he has a majority of 70 in the Chamber. In effect M. Janson simply reformed the Cabinet of nonparty Economist Professor Paul van Zeeland (TIME, Nov. 1), expected by many last week to return as Premier after the courts confirm a Parliamentary vote which recently cleared him of charges in connection with a scandal at the National Bank of Belgium (TiME, Sept. 20 et ante). In his program speech last week...
President-elect Erb (son of Dr. John Lawrence Erb, now head of the music department at Connecticut College For Women), is a University of Illinois graduate, a Harvard Ph.D. and a crack economist. He was a professor of economics at Oregon for six years, in the last year had been acting head of the economics department at Stanford University...
...professor. Says Anthropologist Robert Briffault, "stupidity is deliberately, laboriously, vigilantly cultivated by the established institutions of medievalism, barbarism, and savagery, whose survival in a world of multiplied intelligence requires that stupidity -a stupidity which is an artificial product. It is not innate, it is not inevitable." Said famed Political Economist John Stuart Mill, "of all the vulgar modes of escaping from the consideration of the effect of social and moral influences on the human mind, the most vulgar is that of attributing the diversities of conduct and character to inherent natural differences...