Word: economist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Proud is Harvard of sons who have become famed financiers and economists, stalwart foundation piles of the U. S. timocracy and foreign financial affairs. Among them are: John Pierpont Morgan (1889); Thomas William Lament (1892), onetime Harvard Overseer, Morgan partner; Banker George Fisher Baker Jr. (1899); Frank William Taussig (1879), political economist; Thomas Nelson Perkins (1891), U. S. alternate at the Paris Reparations Conference (1929); Seymour Parker Gilbert (LL. B., 1915), Agent General for Reparation Payments (since 1924); Jeremiah Smith Jr. (1892), League of Nations Commissioner General for Hungary (1924-26) in charge of its financial reconstruction. Last week...
Author Sarah Salt, young (24), attractive, dark-haired, vivacious, is an Englishwoman whose real name is Mrs. Harold Hobson. Her husband is the son of Economist J. A. Hobson. Last fortnight Author Salt arrived in the U. S., drank tea with her publishers. She writes with realism, economy and a good deal of satirical insight. Consequently her stories are not very cheerful reading, especially for males. She has also written: A Tiny Seed of Love; Sense and Sensuality...
First, entrance upon the academic career must be made far more inviting than it now is. When a youth, fresh from the stimulus of the laboratory of a great man of science or from the seminar of a distinguished philosopher, historian, economist or man of letters, now weighs the choice of his future career, he must be ready, unless already economically independent, to fact the fact that, at the outset of his academic service if that be chosen, and probably for some years to come, perhaps as many as ten or fifteen, he must postpone marriage, turn aside from...
Before a joint committee of New York State law-makers engaged in revising New York's public utility laws, appeared last week Professor Irving Fisher, Yale economist. Even as many a Yale student has replied "I don't know" to questions asked by Professor Fisher, so Professor Fisher replied "I don't know" to questions asked by the committee's counsel. Col. William Joseph ("Wild Bill'') Donovan, onetime (1924-25) U. S. Assistant Attorney-General. Finally Professor Fisher admitted that he was unprepared, had not made any particular study of Public Utilities. Loath to take a zero...
According to close friends of the Harvard economist, Professor Sprague is to direct the relations of the Bank of England with the central banks of other countries. The position, especially in view of the International Bank, recently established, carries with it some of the largest responsibilities in the banking world today...