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Business Prophecy. There are two fundamental ways of looking at the future of business: 1) it is all a matter of chance; 2) what has happened is apt to recur. Economist Irving Fisher of Yale, an advocate of prophecy in business, contends that prosperity and depression repeat with mathematical regularity. Against this contention argued Mathematician Edwin Bidwell Wilson of Harvard. "An economist can find periods in anything if he uses the right system. But those periods would be but figments of the imagination." To prove his point Professor Wilson showed that an array of business statistics which displayed periodicity also...
...John Van Antwerp MacMurray (1902) head a list of some 55 Princeton consuls and vice consuls. Senator David Aiken Reed of Pennsylvania (1900), Governor John Gilbert Winant of New Hampshire (1913), and Governor George White of Ohio (1895), lead some 95 Princetonian Congressmen, State legislators, Mayors, bureau chiefs. Princeton Economist Edwin Walter Kemmerer has been money doctor to the world. Thick in the New Deal is James McCauley Landis (1921), Federal Trade Commissioner who is slated to chairman the Federal Securities & Exchange Commission. Harold Willis Dodds and his earnest young men have a high mark to shoot at. Princeton...
Economics Statistics was founded by three bright young disciples of Economist Lewis Henry Haney of New York University-George Ogden Trenchard, Jules Blackman and Andrew Lavell Jackson, great-grandson of Thomas Jonathan ("Stonewall") Jackson and onetime editor of Bradstreet. Working in Wall Street by day and plugging for Ph.D.'s by night, they absorbed Professor Haney's theories of forecasting business by analyzing demand-supply factors, amplified his statistical methods, established the service just a year ago. Their clients already include nearly every big Manhattan bank, countless brokers, such major industrials as General Motors and International Harvester...
...dislike of Government-by-professors comes strangely. Trained at Illinois Wesleyan, Dartmouth and the University of Wisconsin, he later taught at Iowa, Michigan and Texas. In 1916 he became an economist to the Federal Trade Commission, helped handle its early but unsuccessful campaigns against alleged monopolistic practices in the gasoline and newsprint trades. During the War he helped the Government fix prices. After a short interlude directing publicity against the big meat packers in behalf of the Southern Wholesale Grocers' Association, he returned to Washington to establish the Department of Agriculture's Cost of Marketing division, which made...
...Illinois. . . . . . . . . . . . . D.E. Columbia University (New York) Professor Emeritus Ernest William Brown of Yale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SC. D. President James Bryant Conant of Harvard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SC.D. Chancellor Harry Woodburn Chase of New York University . . . . . . . . . . Litt. D. President Harold Willis Dods of Princeton . . . . . . . . . . . . . Litt. D. Surrogate James Aloysius Foley of New York Country . . . . . . . . . . LL.D. Economist Calvin Bryce Hoover of Duke University . . . . . . . . . Litt. D. British Economist John Maynard Keynes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rev. Russell Henry Stafford of Boston's Old South Church . . . . . . . . . . S.T.D Drake University (Des Moines, Iowa) U.S. Commissioner-elect of Education John Ward Studebaker. . . . . . . . . . LL.D. Board Chairman Walter J. Cummings of the Continental Illinois National Bank...