Word: economist
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Economics 4a is of value to the student taking a correlation examination in government regulation of industry. It covers this subject from the economist's point of view in a most thorough manner as far as railroads are concerned. When combined with Economics 4b it covers the subject from the economist's angle as thoroughly as possible in a one year's course...
...made his list of Big Names bigger. To his Organization for Unemployment relief under Generalissimo Walter Sherman Gifford, he added 19 important persons, brought the total to 84. Among those appointed last week were: James Rudolph Garfield, son of the 20th U. S. President; Col. Leonard Porter Ayres, Cleveland economist; Harry A. Wheeler, Chicago banker; Carl Raymond Gray, Union Pacific president; Stuart Cramer, North Carolina textile tycoon; W. H. Maytag, Iowa washing machine maker, and John Walter Drake, Detroit motormaker...
William Hope Harvey was born in what is now Putnam County. West Virginia. He practiced law in Chicago, moved to Denver, mined silver, made money, listened to debates on the silver question. No economist, he published in 1894 a pamphlet called "Coin's Financial School," in which "Professor Coin" held a series of imaginary interviews with leading bankers, farmers, editors, on free silver coinage as a political cureall. "Professor Coin's" financial sophistries were made to defeat and convince all-comers. Within a year Harvey had sold 1,000,000 copies of his pamphlet to debt-ridden farmers...
Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Economist, researcher, newsman close to G. O. P. insurgency, Mr. Manly was doing his favorite work as the special agent of the Senate Slush Fund Committee. His job was to find out what Bishop Cannon had done with almost $100,000 contributed for Democratic use in Virginia against Alfred Emanuel Smith in the 1928 campaign. The Bishop had juggled his accounts beyond all senatorial comprehension and then successfully defied the Committee's demand for an explanation under the Corrupt Practices Act. What Investigator Manly was principally trying to trace through a jungle of bank trans...
...Labor leaders were proposing. The May report suggested, among other things, a drastic trimming of military, school and police salary budgets, and a 20% reduction in the Dole. Any tinkering of the Dole would be suicide for the Laborites, might be more than even the Conservatives could tackle. Commented Economist John Maynard Keynes in The New Statesman & Nation...