Word: economist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bank of Poland, Warsaw, Poland. Though he is called "American Financial Adviser to Poland," he and the U. S. disclaim all official connection. As Architect Albert Kahn, of Detroit, and Engineer Hugh Lincoln Cooper, of New York, hire out their expert services to the Soviet, so Economist Dewey puts his expert advice at the disposal of the Polish Treasury. It was he who was behind the recent deal by which Standard Steel Car Corp. underwrote $20,000,000 worth of Polish State Railways Bonds for Lilpop, Rau & Loewenstein, Polish car builders. A more personal result of Economist Dewey...
...Means Committee which framed the Tariff Act of 1897 that bears his name.* Clerk Moore is the son of Joseph Hampton Moore, onetime Mayor of Philadelphia. Mr. Dingley got $1,541, Mr. Moore $1,866, in four years for contributing unsigned tariff articles to the league's American Economist, for supplying "research information" and for generally keeping the league informed as to what was going on within their respective committees. Mr. Dingley in campaign years makes Republican stump speeches...
...primary purpose of aiding instructors in the collection and analysis of materials for teaching. From its beginning the Bureau has carried on a series of statistical and other studies which, although designed chiefly to develop instruction in business administration, contain much of interest to the economist and are therefore appropriate to mention in this survey. Even more important for our present purpose is the fact that the Department of Economics had the same need as the Business School of provision for gathering materials for teaching, though this had never been recognized by the University, so that the establishment...
...present the subject to the President of the University, with the result that in 1915 the Harvard Graduates' Magazine published an article upon "The Need of Endowment for Economic Research," in which the needs of the Department were fully set forth. In substance, the situation was that the modern economist was expected to make bricks without straw. Apart from the usual library facilities, the instructor in economics at Harvard, as at other universities, was expected to find materials for teaching and research as best he could and at his own expense. The personal and professional contacts, the knowledge...
...headlines in the Monday papers for the purpose of discovering whether, in this new era, two and two may not make five. But such things as laws and institutions, methods of production, available natural resources, number and distribution of population, are in constant state of flux, so that the economist's task is never done. His materials must ever be collected anew, and his work ever repeated; the economic order changes, and the living specimens of today become in a few years the fossil remains of a bygone age. We are speaking, it will be noted, not of changes...