Word: economist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when Benjamin Disraeli became Chancellor of the Exchequer, the principle of Free Trade had become so popular in Britain that he had to curb his will to revive protection. Successive Gladstone ministries made Free Trade the battle cry of the great Liberty Party. By 1879 a Liberal economist could crow: "The British tariff no longer contains within it one solitary shred of protection...
Pollard, who is president of the society, will review the history of technological unemployment, discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the system, and indicate the causes for the division of opinion between the economist and the laborer...
Columbia University has a McVickar Professorship of Political Economy, founded in 1904, which is as celebrated as many an older endowed chair. Its only occupant until he retired at 70 last June was Professor Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman, famed international economist. To the McVickar Professorship was last week appointed Dr. Robert Murray Haig, 44, professor of business administration at Columbia since 1916. Like his venerable predecessor, he is a tax-expert, an adviser to governments and states. The Federal Government, Canada, Porto Rico, New Mexico, have sought his aid. New York's Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt appointed Dr. Haig...
After lunching at the Faculty Club, Sir Francis Goodnough, English economist and business leader, paid a visit to the Business School over the weekend. Sir Francis is chairman of a committee appointed by Lord Percy to study the question of education for salesmanship and marketing, and is also president of the Incorporated Industrial Management Association. He is in this country on a secret mission as a representative of the British government and is believed to be interested primarily in reviving England's foreign trade...
...first job Philip Sidney Hanna ever had, 19 years ago, was on the Economist, Chicago financial weekly now owned by Knowlton Lyman ("Snake") Ames, built up by his eldest son, "Snake" Jr. (now publisher of the Chicago Evening-Post), and published, with the Chicago Journal of Commerce, by younger son John Dawes Ames. Last week Phil Hanna returned to the same scene as editor of the Journal of Commerce. He will also have much to say in the Economist. For the last ten years Reporter Hanna has been a potent financial writer in Detroit, since 1924 Detroit representative...