Word: economist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Research Economist Lewis L. Lorwin of Brookings Institution: "In relation to labor the NRA may be said to represent a bundle of missed opportunities, halfway compromises and unpremeditated achievements...
Earlier in the week Col. Leonard P. Ayres, Cleveland Trust Co.'s famed vice president economist, declared: "The one essential shortcoming of the recovery program is that it has not yet found out how to induce a business recovery. " Comparing the economic machine to a stalled automobile, Col. Ayres twitted: "We found long ago that the starter is out of order. We have done what is customary in such cases, and have arranged to have the machine pushed, in this instance, with public appropriations which have been pushing the machine along for more than a year without any indication...
...through the Mohawk Valley, a number of notable people were getting into their silk brocaded pajamas for the night. One was Winthrop Williams Aldrich, chairman of the biggest bank in the U. S. Another was the bank's president, Henry Donald Campbell. A third was the bank's brilliant economist, Benjamin M. Anderson Jr. And a fourth was handsome young Nelson Rockefeller, who had nothing to do with the bank except that his father John Davison Rockefeller Jr. is its biggest stockholder and his uncle heads its board of directors...
Declaring that the NRA was invented to prevent Congress from fixing prices hostile to the interests of big business, John T. Flynn, noted economist, prophesied the coming of dictatorship in this country in a speech last night in the New Lecture Hall...
John T. Flynn, noted economist, author, and speaker, will deliver an address an current economic problems at a meeting sponsored by the Liberal Club this evening at 8.15 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall...