Word: economist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week his younger brother, Headmaster Horace Dutton Taft of Taft School (Watertown, Conn.), a brother tall, thin and angular but full of the Taft good-humor, produced a private letter William Howard Taft had written just after Herbert Hoover's election, to Prof. Irving Fisher, Yale economist, militant dry. Headmaster Taft explained he was offering this evidence to offset all erroneous interpretations of his brother's position on Prohibition...
...name of many a patriarch is sacred within the walls of his college but comparatively unknown outside. Not so with Patriarch Hadley. His fame as an economist outshone even his pedagogical career. "Hadley on Transportation," written 45 years ago, is still the Good Book to railroaders. Dr. Hadley, who wrote it while he was a college lecturer on railroad administration, assembled his material by logical digestion of previous works, not on the right-of-way. His good friend William Howard Taft, graduated two years after him, appointed him chairman of a commission to investigate the condition of U. S. rail...
...discuss the pros and cons of Prohibition and the merits and weaknesses of the Harvard Debating Council's plan for Prohibition reform will be held in the Large Living Room of the Union tomorrow night. T. N. Carver, Wells Professor of Political Economy, widely known both as an economist and as a supporter of the dry cause, has consented to participate in the discussion from the prohibitionists' point of view, while Alexander Lincoln '95, former Assistant Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and at present general counsel for the Constitutional Liberties League, will present the wet angle...
John Maynard Keynes, author of The Economic Consequences of the Peace, famed economist, husband of onetime Russian dancer, Lydia Lopokova...
Last week Economist Dewey, in this country for a few weeks' respite from his duties in Warsaw, gave some international advice to American business men. To the Merchants' Association of New York he spoke of the country whose economic resources he has studied for two years. With a national debt of only $15.50 per capita, one of the lowest in Europe, Poland should attract American capital, said Economist Dewey. He advised U. S. manufacturers to become partners in Polish firms and thus get in on the ground floor of the prosperity he foresees for Polish industry. "Because...