Word: economist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Economist Keezer's associates on the board was William Trufant Foster, first president of Reed College. When Reed was founded in 1911 by the widow of a steamboat tycoon as a cultural centre for the Northwest, William T. Foster had been called to get it going. He built a surprisingly intellectual college with no intercollegiate athletics, no fraternities, complete student self-government. In 1920 President Foster resigned* and thereafter Reed coasted along under competent but not always vigorous leadership. After Messrs. Foster & Keezer had been working on the Consumers' Board for six months, Mr. Foster...
Runner-up last week was Dr. Walter Reed, conqueror of yellow fever, with 57 votes. Economist Henry George scored 56, Suffragist Susan B. Anthony 55, Author Henry David Thoreau 54. Louisa May Alcott with 28 showed her heels to Herman Melville with 24. Far down the list were William Holmes McGuffey (McGuffey's Readers), 17, and Jefferson Davis...
...until businessmen are again disposed to borrow. The current agitation is over the question of whether the Federal Reserve Board should use its fire-fighting equipment-such as its power to double present reserve requirements- before or after the blaze begins. At the Investment Bankers Association convention last week, Economist Benjamin M. Anderson Jr. of Chase National Bank demanded action now, declaring: "It would be a very serious matter indeed if we came into a period of vigorous, active business and strong speculative temper on the part of the American people with anything like the present volume of excess reserves...
...clock in one of the House dining-rooms. At a long table seven carefree inmates awaited their soup. A respected economist and senior tutor seated himself in the vacant eighth place and also waited. But while the undergraduates were patient, he was clearly uneasy. He looked at his watch and groomed his pencil for singing the yellow slip in record time. But no yellow slip appeared. His face contorted with agony as the minutes passed. Finally, seeing an idle waitress across the room, he snatched up his napkin and rushed to her table. Over his shoulder he explained...
...Landon boomlet out of the Favorite Son class by declaring : "Surely Mr. Roosevelt can be defeated. ... I am confident that Governor Landon of Kansas could be elected on the Republican ticket. . . . "He has a fine war record. He has a clean business record. ... He is a sound and intelligent economist. He has balanced his State's budget. He has reduced taxation. ... He says that the trouble with the visionary gentlemen in Washington is that they have never had to meet a Saturday night payroll." The Hearst Universal Service promptly got behind Publisher Hearst's man, recalled Governor Landon...