Word: economist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eminent U. S. Sephardim include the late Emma Lazarus (poetess), Dr. Solomon Solis Cohen (physician, teacher), Ernest Clifford Peixotto (artist, writer), Jessica Blanche Peixotto (his sister, social economist), Benjamin Nathan Cardozo (jurist...
...years ago, spoke tall Bernard Mannes Baruch, speculator and financier extraordinary, economist, authority on mineral waters. His father was a Prussian-Polish Jew who emigrated to the U. S., served as a field surgeon in General Lee's army; his mother was the daughter of a Southern planter. Bernard Mannes Baruch went north as a young man, became famed for his market operations, his floating of the great Goldfield Consolidated Mining Co. during the panic of 1907 and, later, for his services as Chairman of the War Industries Board. Memories of this last occupation gave him material...
More effective than the praise which professional Prohibitors heap upon the job that gives them their daily bread, was a temperate, well-seasoned statement filed by Prof. Irving Fisher, Yale economist. Professor Fisher adroitly admitted most of the facts against which Wets have complained but insisted that even these facts do not outbalance the larger benefits of Prohibition. He charted the rise and fall of Prohibition as follows...
Parenthetically Democrat Young laid down the economic dogma that "tariffs and other petty political barriers" are definitely pernicious. "Let no man think," cried Economist Young, "that the living standards of America can be permanently maintained at a measurably higher level than those of other civilized countries. Either we shall lift theirs to ours or they will drag ours down to theirs...
Died. Edward Nelson Dingley, 67, economist, adviser to the U. S. Senate's Finance Committee; at Washington; of a malignant growth in the throat. Son of the late, tariff-writing Representative Nelson Dingley Jr. of Maine, he wrote many a magazine article on the tariff, was active in Michigan politics, formerly published the Kalamazoo Telegraph, the Kalamazoo Press. Early this winter the Senate Lobby Committee revealed that Mr. Dingley had received from the American Tariff League $1,541 for supplying research information on tariff activities and for contributing unsigned articles to the league's American Economist (TIME...