Word: economist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sums being spent in Rearmament and on public works, party buildings and motor speedways throughout Germany must be drastically curtailed if the Reich is to keep up even its present show of Capitalist economy and stable money. The situation seemed to be last week that Herr Hitler remains no economist, and that Colonel Gőring will stop at nothing short of an actual crackup in his resolve to complete Germany's present Four-Year Plan to achieve Rearmament and Autarchy (TIME...
...Because of the tremendous crops, nothing can stop business improvement this fall." When famed Economist Roger Babson spoke thus before the Boston Chamber of Commerce last week, he enunciated what is currently the No. 1 bullish hope of the country. In theory bumper crops sold at fair prices provide the huge farming class with such extensive buying power that all commerce benefits. How bumper are crops was last week summarized by revised estimates of the Department of Agriculture, indicating that total value for three major crops of corn, wheat and cotton will be $4,500,000,000, largest since...
...will not permit them to be cut within its own trade area. ... If this is not an acceptance by R. H. Macy & Co. of the principle of price maintenance within its own trading area, I certainly wish Mr. Ralph Straus or Mr. Q. Forrest Walker, Macy's economist, would explain what...
...mind. For seven months the most active lobby since the 1930 Smoot-Hawley tariff bill had buzzed about Capitol corridors. Chief Lobbyist Ellsworth Bunker, vice president & treasurer of the National Sugar Refining Co. of New Jersey, gave dinner parties for Congressmen in his swank 23rd Street home. Economist-Lobbyist John E. Dalton, ex-chief of sugar for AAA, wrote carefully prepared treatises and reference books demonstrating the need for protecting U. S. refiners and refinery workers (of whom there are only 16,000). Ex-Senator-Lobbyist Hubert D. Stephens of Mississippi and ex-Congressman-Lobbyist Loring Black of New York...
Died. Henry Parker Willis, 62, economist, professor of banking at Columbia University; of heart disease; in Oak Bluffs, Mass. Technical adviser to Virginia Senator Carter Glass, Professor Willis helped draft the Federal Reserve Act, the Banking Act of 1933, the Federal Farm Loan...