Word: economist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Other Washingtonians faced the embarrassment in various ways. New York's Laborite Senator Wagner fled from the picket-bound Shoreham to Manhattan. Cinemactress Katharine Hepburn, C. I. 0. Vice Presidents Sidney Hillman and Philip Murray moved out of the Carlton, Mrs. Mordecai Ezekiel (whose husband is economist in the Department of Agriculture) picketed in evening dress. SECommissioner Jerome Frank stayed on at the Wardman Park Hotel and Senator & Mrs. Millard Tydings at the Shoreham. Those who passed the Mayflower picket line included the Bankheads (Senator & Speaker), Senators J. Hamilton Lewis, Carter Glass, Walter George, Arthur Capper, Clyde Herring, Kenneth...
That paradox began with NRA, which was almost a perfect expression of monopolistic economics. When it was abolished, the New Deal reversed its field, has since been on an anti-trust rampage. But a large group of New Dealers (such as Economist Leon Henderson) have continued to favor the NRA approach. With creation of the "business appeasement" policy, they have begun to emerge from the New Deal doghouse, to the alarm of more left-wing New Dealers (such as Lawyers Tommy Corcoran and Ben Cohen, Economist David Cushman Coyle). Last week's blast against steel was meant to chase...
...from there to Moscow for five or more days. Most prominent in the delegation will be Robert Spear Hudson, Secretary of the Department of Overseas Trade, who once warned Germany that Britain could beat her at the barter game, and Mr. Frank T. A. Ashton-Gwatkin, Foreign Office economist who also has written novels about Japan under the name of John Paris. Evidently Dictator Joseph Stalin was now to have his share of "appeasement...
...Economist John T. Flynn, a close friend of Willis Ballinger and a professional viewer-with-alarm, popped up with a set of charts to show that "collapse" of the durable-goods market is due largely to monopolistic conditions. FTC Attorney PGad B. Morehouse developed the commission's belief thaft price control is the chief handmaiden of monopoly. And Princeton Professor Frank A. Fetter explained monopoly: "It is derivative of two Greek roots, 'monos,' alone, and 'polei, to sell, and it occurs in the Greek in two forms, feminine and neuter, 'monopolia and 'monopolion...
Harry Hopkins was not solely responsible for his Des Moines speech. As with most key New Deal utterances these days, it was guided to the microphone by Janizary Thomas Corcoran. Economist Willard Thorp contributed the part on labor, Lawyer Ben Cohen the part on utilities...