Word: economist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every poem has a different postmark) he hurls rude remarks toward his native land. He calls the Statue of Liberty "you skirt," Manhattan "you great water fowl.'' He has words of measured praise for Karl Marx, though he qualifies them somewhat by adding that Marx was "no economist, neither philosopher." The D.A.R. will not like his comparing Trotsky to Washington, urging "Let the earth give these men an equal praise...
...tale told by Playwright Harris, sister of Producer Jed Harris, and her collaborator concerns an economist who is misunderstood by his actress wife but profoundly appreciated by the New Deal and a female book reviewer of The New Republic. All hands agree to a collusive divorce, necessitating the employment of a professional corespondent, an honest girl from Tenth Avenue (Miss Conklin). The drama then resolves itself into the following questions: Will Miss Conklin put on the pink pajamas? If so, will she get into bed with Actor James Rennie? If so, will she spend the night? If so, will...
...Government. One of Chairman Eccles' unspecified jobs is to make interest rates as low as possible to facilitate Treasury borrowing. Cheap money cuts the cost of doing business in general but is also an invitation to speculation. And, politics being what they are, the thing that bothers serious economists is whether Chairman Eccles and his fellow money managers will be able to pull the lever before reflation turns into inflation. Chairman Eccles defines inflation as a "condition brought about when the means of payment in the hands of those who will spend increases faster than goods can be produced...
...Alfred Church Lane, 72, Tufts lost a distinguished geologist, onetime president of the Geological Society of America. Old Dr. Lane, well past the retirement age and eligible for a pension, observed that his fellow casualty ''has much more at stake." But Economist Earl Micajah Winslow, 39, a Mayflower descendant and a Quaker, will probably be welcomed as a martyr on the faculty of any university in the 22 states which have no teachers' oath...
...Chicago Tribune's financial department is popping with onetime police and political reporters. A onetime police reporter himself, Financial Editor Howard Wood believes that it is easier to turn a good newshawk into an economist than a good economist into a newshawk...