Word: economists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...certain," says Dr. O. E. Baker, the distinguished economist of the United States Department of Agriculture, "that if the population of the United States continues to increase for more than another century as it has during the past century, there is no means by which the present standard of living can be maintained, except by importation of foodstuffs from other lands,--which will need their foodstuffs even more than we. And looking forward 200 or 300 years, which is a shorter span of time than that elapsed since the settlements of Jamestown and Plymouth, it seems necessary to recognize...
...President, on the invitation of the League of Nations, appointed five delegates to the World Economic Conference at Geneva. The five, experts all, are Henry M. Robinson, onetime Dawes Commissioner; Norman H. Davis, onetime Assistant Secretary of the Treasury and Under Secretary of State; Dr. Alonzo E. Taylor, agricultural economist from Stanford University; John W. O'Leary, President of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, and Dr. Julius Klein, Director of the U. S. Bureau of Foreign & Domestic Commerce. The President let it be known that he regarded Dr. Klein as the best informed man in the Government Service...
...money is put in a school fund. Fines for talking in class, gum-chewing, untidiness swell the total but violated grammar is chief source of revenue. Like any system, there is a defect. Thrifty pupils come to regard bad grammar as a luxury. Said a seven-year-old economist: "Sure, I use bad grammar, but I wait till I'm out in the street, see?" Said a self-indulgent eight-year-old, displaying a dime: "Momma give me two ain'ts for my birthday...
...study, Fabian Franklin, economist and likewise journalist, Mr. Sullivan's senior by 22 years, scanned the article. He was accustomed to spying an error a day in the press. He was accustomed to let them pass in silence. But these errors by famed Mr. Sullivan were too flagrant to endure. To the New York Times he wrote hotly: "We note an astonishing error in the mere statement of bald facts. President Wilson's term did not end until March...
...Before one can understand the Mexican situation one must face the problems of Mexico" Frank, Tannenbaum, economist, educator, and prison expert, told a Crimson reporter yesterday. Mr. Tannenbaem had been in Mexico for over a year and returns to lecture on the problems of Mexico with the endorsement of that country's council general. "And before one can understand the relationship between Mexico and Nicaragua one had to understand that all the problems of Mexico are the problems of both Central and south America...