Word: economist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...addition", continued the eminent economist, "I believe that it would be good for the country to have a complete change. No party should be allowed to feel that it has a permanent mortgage on place and power, regardless of miadeeda, condouement of corruption, and crime, empty beatings and signal failures...
...What is an economic system for?" This question, says Stuart Chase in A New Deal, published last fortnight by Macmillan, was never put by the economic sages of the last century. A very literate economist himself, Mr. Chase answers the question simply and proposes changes which he believes will make the system function as it should. Whether the system is capitalism or socialism, he cares little. "The crux of the matter is, who receives the factory income? As the case now stands, it is a six-cornered fight between the landlord ... the bondholder . . . the stockholder ... the worker ... the management...
...based on the dollar instead of the pound, a move sure to be popular with school children, bookkeepers, adding machine manufacturers and Anglophobes. In 1926, four years after the establishment of the Irish Free State, the entire Irish dollar question was gone into exhaustively by a commission headed by Economist Dr. Henry Parker Willis of New York who decided against it, pointed out the dangers to Ireland of a currency system divorced from that of her nearest and biggest customer, Great Britain...
...would be rash," said the austere London Economist last week, "to predict that America is within sight of general economic recovery, for . . . the forces bearing her down are almost as ineluctable as those which . . . forced her to the peak of prosperity. Nevertheless, there is reason to think the Giant of the West has passed the crisis in his sickness...
...join Editors Kirby Page and Reinhold Niebuhr came Economist Paul Howard Douglas of the University of Chicago and Devere Allen who was an editor of The World Tomorrow for ten years. Feature of the revised magazine will be a .weekly department, "As Brailsford Sees It," written in London by Henry Noel Brailsford, onetime editor of The New Leader, onetime writer for Manchester Guardian and The Nation (London...