Word: economist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Beliefs: Thinks Stuart Chase is "our outstanding economist." Says that "private bankers control credit on the basis of what's in it for me. Let us give back to the Federal government where the Constitution placed it, the control of currency and credit." Mr. Goodwin places all his eggs in the Townsend Plan basket. This plan provides for a monthly pension of $200 to all men over SIXTY with the proviso that the recipients must spend it all within the month. The money is to be raised through a sales tax, but when the committee questioned him on the details...
Drought and AAA slashed the 1934 corn crop to 56% its normal volume, with a relative decrease in pork production. According to Dr. Mordecai Ezekiel, Department of Agriculture economist, pork prices have risen so high that a national "consumers' strike" is now on. The Bureau of Agricultural Economics foresees still higher prices for chickens, eggs...
...voice of John the Baptist Pecora crying in the wilderness of Wall Street, "repent ye, for manipulation is no more". It will be interesting in view of the marked evidence of pool manipulation during the past ten days in certain stocks so happily designated by the noted British economist Angas as "rubbish" shares, to note what action, if any, the Securities Commission will take. Or, maybe only "manipulation" for a decline is to be censured. An interesting stock to watch is McLellan Stores, which, in the midst of, or emerging from reorganization activities has scored a phenomenal advance accompanied...
...foots half its bills, the Labor Temple is a forum for people of all sects. Because "people who are willing to work among Labor should live among them." Director Chaffee lives with his wife and two children on the top floor. A grey-haired, wiry man who much resembles Economist Stuart Chase, he sits on New York's Central Trades and Labor Council as a representative of the city churches, is head of the pacifist Fellowship of Reconciliation...
...British Association for the Advancement of Science. The question: Shall Science take, a holiday? Sir James as the astronomer-physicist president of the Association, held out doggedly against such an idea one day on one platform. The next day on another platform Sir Josiah, as the Association's economist-tycoon treasurer, seemed to think it would do no great harm...