Word: economist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enthusiasm among the Democratic diners. The men who write newspaper editorials throughout the land blurbed polite nothings about it next day, or dismissed it out of hand as "another of Smith's amateurish suggestions." European ears pricked up with interest, but no impartial and potent U. S. economist bothered to voice an opinion, except ever-vocal Nicholas Murray Butler who took occasion to repeat that he is for immediate and complete Cancellation. The one tangible new foreign debt idea voiced this year by a real figure in U. S. public life was thus tabled...
Promptly Germania, organ of German Chancellor Heinrich Briining, backed the Smith scheme. So did the leading French economist, M. Claude Joseph Gignoux, recently President of the Council of National Economy...
Bang! ? went the pistol. Dr Luther shouted, "Somebody has shot me!" as Dr. Roosen and Herr Kertscher bolted. Caught by policemen they made no resistance, Economist Roosen announcing with dignity, "We will explain our motives fully ? but only to the Supreme Court at Leipzig...
When Berlin police persisted in questioning Economist Roosen, they got more than they bargained for. "The great Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses on the door of the Castle Church at Wittenberg in 1517," said Dr. Roosen, "and I had in tended in 1932 to nail upon the door of Dr. Luther's Reichsbank my theses of how the financial problems of Germany can best be met. I had intended to do that, but was dissuaded from my course by friends who urged me to do what...
Married. Trevor Charles Stamp. M.D., second son of Sir Josiah Charles Stamp, economist and director of the Bank of England; and Frances D. Bosworth, cousin of Charles Gates Dawes; in Evanston...