Word: edmunds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Leaving Washington immediately upon his resignation as financial and executive adviser to the Secretary of the Treasury, O. M. W. Sprague, Edmund Cogswell Converse Professor of Banking and Finance, arrived in Boston late last evening, it was revealed early today, and is understood to have gone direct to the Business School, spending the night at the home of Wallace B. Donham '99, Dean of the School. He left New York early in the afternoon, it is believed, coming up on the train with Walter Lippmann '10, who spoke to a small gathering at Kirkland House last night. Lippmann, who spent...
Ignored for many weeks by the White House, Dr. Oliver M. W. Sprague '94, Edmund Cogswell Converse Professor of Banking and Finance, bolted his anomalous position of sound-money advocate and special adviser to the Treasury yesterday in a statement denouncing the Roosevelt monetary policy...
That Dictators Hitler and Mussolini might conceivably join forces to march through Switzerland in a future war against France was the excited notion of several Swiss newsorgans last week. Brisk old President Edmund Schulthess hastened to reassure his countrymen last week at leafy, lion-famed Lucerne. "The faith that other nations had in our military equipment in 1914 saved us from becoming involved in the World War," said he. "Today dark clouds are again arising. We shall keep our army prepared for the field...
...with a man named Sprague, inquired of Mr. Sprague's regular bankers if his credit was good, got the following reply: "Mr. Oliver Mitchell Wentworth Sprague has been our client for many years and has always had our confidence in his credit and integrity. Mr. Sprague holds the Edmund Cogswell Converse Professorship of Banking & Finance at Harvard and has served as professor of Economics at the Imperial University in Tokyo. In 1930 he went to London where for two years he was financial adviser to the Bank of England and he is now chief economic adviser...
...present agencies, Harvard might with expedience and point, undertake a similar experiment. The lectures, as at New York University, could be given weekly at a convenient time and place. Members of the faculty might occasionally take the stand, and such men as Harold Laski, George Soule, and Edmund Wilson could doubtless be obtained with slight trouble or cost. Dealing with the political, social, and economic difficulties which beset the world, and seizing upon undergraduate interest in such problems at its present intensity, the course should not suffer from lack of attendance. It would, to a certain extent, clarify the muddled...