Word: economist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Economist Lionel Danforth Edie: "My guess is that the bottom of the low money rate cycle ... is right now-I mean in 1936, and the middle of 1936. . . . The high-grade bond market is inflated and inflated relatively more than the stock market was in 1929 and it is just as vulnerable to a very sharp move the other way for similar reasons...
...Economist Frederick Robertson Macaulay: "The bond market has reached such high levels it may eventually even be necessary artificially to bolster the prices of Government securities if the condition of the banks is not to be the factor that will lead, some years hence, to another general collapse...
COMPROMISE-Royal Wilbur France- Dorrance ($2.50). Following close on the heels of Alvin Johnson (TIME, April 20), another economist takes to fiction, offering a case study of a bright young lawyer who chooses political success at the cost of his ideals. Professor France holds his own in following the slimy trail of corruption, slips into a bog of cliches in his love scenes. DEATH IS A LITTLE MAN-Minnie Hite Moody-Julian Messner ($2.50). Depressing description of the private lives of some Georgia Negroes, written in an un-nerving combination of literate English and darky dialect. A CRIME-Georges Bernanos...
...Economists are still trying to find out what it was that hit us back in 1929. I am not a professional economist but I think I know. What hit us was a decade of debauch, of group selfishness. . . . "Some individuals are never satisfied. People complain to me about the current costs of rebuilding America, about the burden on future generations. I tell them that whereas the deficit of the Federal Government this year is about three billion dollars, the national income of the people of the United States has risen from thirty-five billions in the year 1932 to sixty...
...President had hardly set the stage with his Manhattan speech for a campaign debate on economics before another amateur economist, generally friendly to the New Deal, cracked back at his statement that reduction of manufacturing costs means not more purchasing power, but less. Wrote Scripps-Howard Pundit Raymond Clapper...