Word: economist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Augusta, Ga., to play golf on Bobby Jones's Augusta National golf course and exchange profundities of hindsight. The A. B. A. Economic Policy Commission took up the task of expressing the refreshed financial wisdom of those members who were still bankers. Col. Leonard Porter Ayres, famed economist-vice president of Cleveland Trust Co. (one of Cleveland's big banks that is open), author of his bank's widely known Bulletin, arrayed his colleague's latest recommendations, suggestions...
...facts treated in Economics A are closely related to the business world. But while the business man is mainly concerned with particular costs, selling methods, and profits, the economist tries to put all the general facts in the proper sequence and order of importance. He talks about prices in general, the national income, and the distribution of that income among individuals. The student gains more than the ability to talk glibly about tariffs, money standards, and the business cycle. In seeking the essence of economic life he has developed a method of thought...
Secretary Hughes was the isolation statesman. Secretary Kellogg stood for academic peace. Secretary Stimson was the moral force man. Secretary Hull has a chance to go dowrn in U. S. diplomatic history as the world economist...
...weeks Mr. Prince's briefcase has been fat with charts and specifications for consolidating all U. S. railroads into seven regional systems. The man who kept the briefcase fat was John Walker Barriger III, chief railroad economist to the banking house of Calvin Bullock. Short, stocky John Barriger, 34, is rated one of the ablest railroad analysts in Wall Street. His chief source of pleasure is Pennsylvania R. R. over whose 12,000 mi. of way he scurries on endless inspection trips and whose bulky annual report he generally knows by heart before it is published. John Barriger figures...
...lecture will be the last of a series of four meetings held this year by the Harvard Economic Society. At the three previous lectures, engineers presented their views on current economic problems. This Thursday the Society has reversed their policy and invited an economist to address them...