Word: economist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brussels last week it became known that King Albert, always a major factor in Belgian crises, recently consulted famed French Economist Francis Delaisi and said pensively to him at their last conference in the Royal Palace: "I am profoundly convinced that our civilization is at a turning point. Can we maintain it as it has been? That is the problem which haunts me day and night. Do you know, M. Delaisi, I find myself strangely preoccupied by what is going on in Russia. Is it the end of all civilization which is being prepared there...
Such statistics are not new. The late Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) recited similarly as early as 1921 when he published The Engineers & The Price System Economist Stuart Chase, Veblen's friend has been writing similarly since. But last summer a tall, middle-aged man named Howard Scott with a wide-brimmed hat and a prodigiously rapid, sharp, agile tongue, was being received and handed around by alert tycoons, notably Banker Frank Arthur Vanderlip. From one drawing room and dinner to another he moved everywhere causing gasps of amazement, scowls of worry, questions of deep and inquiring respect...
...Greenwich Village the past ten years as a sardonic bombaster His tall story of football at Notre Dame (see above) is one of his more amusing less lurid ones. He has the vocabulary of many sciences technical and social, at his command. Until his present emergence as a Techo-economist he was accepted as an entertaining drifter who lived in Village squalor. For some time he conducted "a small business called Duron Chemical Co which made paint and floor polish at Pompton N. J. Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center was a customer. Howard Scott's job was to deliver his goods...
...many respects unique in the U. S. Croton-on-Hudson. N. Y. is a quiet village near Harmon, where New York Central trains exchange steam for electricity. The sprawling, bridge-playing, gin-drinking suburbs of New York have not yet entangled it. In Croton, seven years ago, settled Economist Stuart Chase, his wife Margaret Hatfield, Elizabeth Moos, a former teacher at Walden and other modern schools, and her husband Robert Imandt, violinist, onetime French Army man, camp director. Between them Miss Hatfield and Miss Moos had three children. They wanted to teach them. They went to it in a garage...
...executive committee has been Yale's Professor of Public Health, Dr. Charles-Edward Amory Winslow. For custodian of the $1,000,000 the committee organizers chose President Winthrop Williams Aldrich of the Chase National Bank, charitarian brother-in-law of John Davison Rockefeller Jr. They picked Economist Harry Haskell Moore, to direct the study...