Word: economisters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Career: He was a livestock farmer at Whitney in 1923-29, county agent for the University of Idaho extension service in Franklin County, Idaho in 1929-30, economist and marketing specialist for the university's extension service in 1930-38, executive secretary of the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives in Washington in 1939-44. As the council's chief operating officer, he was the agent and helper of thousands of farmers in 4,600 cooperatives (group buying and selling associations) which did an annual business of $1.3 billion. He started active church work in 1921 when he spent...
...July 8, West Berliners have never ceased to wonder, and to ask. On that day, on a West Berlin street, Dr. Linse was bludgeoned outside his home, then thrown into a taxi that roared into East Berlin, where he dropped from sight (TIME, July 21). A courageous anti-Communist economist, he is Western Europe's most prominent casualty of the cold...
...blend, the summer capital, I met an economist who had just been promoted from a high school teaching post to the University of Belgrade. In answer to my questions on his profession, he began to praise Tito as "the hero and leader of our people" and methodically continued with a doctrinaire exposition of Marxist economic theory. In spite of my attempts to interrupt his logic, he proved he had swallowed whole the official line. On a more practical level, he explained, "we have introduced an incentive wage for the worker. According to his production, he receives up to forty percent...
...Sudanese and British could be friends again in the vulnerable, volatile Middle East. Said the Manchester Guardian: "We should be ready to take the rough with the smooth if we can secure a tolerable way out of what seemed a little time ago to be an impasse." Said the Economist: "For the first time for very many years an Egyptian statesman has publicly given Great Britain the benefit of the doubt...
Administrative discretion introduced to effectuate the policies of the "welfare state" is destroying "the rule of law," a noted economist told a Littauer audience last night...