Word: experts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Winkler, foreign bond expert, flayed many details of the pact, claiming that since the U. S. buys 70% of Brazil's annual coffee exports, U. S. creditors deserved better treatment. And no sooner were the terms of the decree published than British bondholders also began to grumble...
...manipulate money for the good of the U. S. is not entirely a question of public sentiment. It is also a matter for expert judgment. So, ever since the Administration began tinkering the dollar, there has been argument whether 1) only a few wild-cat economists approved the experiment, 2) only a few old fogy economists opposed it. To find out how expert opinion stood, the inflationist Committee for the Nation polled economists but declined to publish the results, alleging that economic opinion was "divided." So the Economists' National Committee on Monetary Policy, composed of 90 leading economists including...
...question of whether all business shall be regulated and supervised by Government Bureaus and Commissions is one that may involve differing viewpoints but there will be no dissent from the proposition that expert personnel shall be employed in the administration of these new laws. For this reason it is significant that in the proposed stock exchange control bill, the proponents of the act are asking that the measure be exempt from the usual civil service requirements and that salaries up to $15,000 be paid. The next thing of course is to find some effective way to keep the Senators...
...March issue of Duke University's Character and Personality ("An International Quarterly for Psychodiagnostics and Allied Studies'') published this week, he reproduces twelve lines of bold, graceful, rapidly written script, with this comment: "It is out of the question that ten years ago any expert would have admitted the possibility . . . that parts of this specimen could have been written by different persons...
...Traylor got his start in the cattle pens. As a Texas banker he had to be an expert on livestock loans. He learned the subject so thoroughly that his reputation spread to St. Louis and on to Chicago, whither he went in 1914 as vice president of the Live Stock Exchange National Bank. During the War the late James B. Forgan, chairman of First National, was asked by the Federal Reserve to help select a man for the Treasury certificate drive in Chicago. He called for a list of Chicago bank presidents. "There's your man," he said...