Word: economist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Elected. Alanson Bigelow Houghton. onetime (1922-25) U. S. Ambassador to Germany and (1925-28) to Great Britain: to succeed Economist Samuel McCune Lindsay of Columbia University as president of the Academy of Political Science...
Announcement of the creation by Edward S. Harkness of a trust of $10,000,000 to be used "for charitable work in Great Britain" was made yesterday in London. The board of trustees, including Stanley Baldwin, former premier; John Buchan, novelist; and Sir Josiah Stamp, economist, will meet soon to determine the disposition of the money...
...Sterling Professor of Physiology; Dr. J. G. Dusser de Barenne, of the University of Utrecht, who has been appointed Professor of Physiology; Ulrich Bonnell Phillips, Ph.D., author of "Life and Labor in the Old South," who has been appointed Professor of American History, and James Harvey Rogers, the noted economist...
...stood complete last week. The President revealed the names of only his first three selections: Henry P. Fletcher (chairman), Republican, of Pennsylvania, onetime U. S. Ambassador to Italy; Thomas Walker Page, Democrat, of Virginia, chairman of Wilson's Tariff Commission; John Lee Coulter, Republican, of North Carolina, chief economist and chairman of the Advisory Board of the present Commission, onetime president of North Dakota Agricultural & Mechanical College, able rural economist. Meanwhile Citizen Calvin Coolidge took his first public dig at a Hoover policy. In his daily syndicate article, Citizen Coolidge wrote: "The report that the Tariff Commission is about...
Harper Leech, newspaper man, economist, became vice president of Rudolph Guenther-Russell Law Inc., financial advertising agency. Newspaperman Leech works with sleeves rolled up, a green shade over his eyes, at least four spittoons on hand. Sometimes he gets away from work, rolls up his trousers, sticks a pipe in his mouth, wanders into the woods carrying an old satchel, emerges several days later. In addition to economics, he is an authority on politics, a potent discourser on philosophy, nature, baseball scores...