Word: economist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Iowa Senator's slender, soft-voiced, studious son, aged 25. When the Senator arrived in Washington in 1926, Son Brookhart had been given a clerical job with the Trade Commission. Graduated from George Washington Uni versity in 1929, he was promoted to the rank of a Commission economist and investigator. Married, father of a year-old daughter, he is now studying law. Phase II began with a scrutiny by Son Brookhart of huge North American Co.'s structure and functions. Examiner Brookhart testified that 76 companies, most of which North American controls, servicing 687 communities, produce about...
Mother and I (to protect our future chances) seriously object to your reference to my father on p. 22 of the April 20 issue as the "Elderly Economist Roger Babson...
Last week a Secretary of Transportation was urged again, by Harvard's famed economist and rail expert, William Zebina Ripley. In the course of a lecture at Columbia University, Professor Ripley declared: "Such a Cabinet official would have just the prestige and authority to enforce discipline on the rail industry that it needs." Under the Ripley plan the administrative functions of the Interstate Commerce Commission (locomotive inspection, accident investigation, safety equipment orders) would be transferred to the Department of Transportation while the I. C. C.'s judicial work (rate-making, valuation, corporate finance) would be left as an independent function...
Wilson reads elderly Economist Roger Babson's forecasts. The one about WAR some months ago (when Mr. Babson caused the entire front page of his confidential bulletin to appear in red ink) greatly excited Wilson...
...fellows: Author Maurice Hindus (Humanity Uprooted), Playwright-Director Em Jo Basshe (Earth), Author Walter Stanley Campbell (pseudonym Stanley Vestal), Poets Hart Crane and Genevieve Taggard, Painters Marsden Hartley and Ione Robinson, Sculptor Harold Cash (his second grant), Penologist Joseph Fulling Fishman, Composer Henry Dixon Cowell, Architect Cecil Clair Briggs,* Economist Herbert Heaton, Director William Edward Zeuch of Commonwealth College (Mena, Ark.), many a college professor, and ten Mexican, Chilean and Argentine scholars...