Word: expounders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aside from reviewing over-the-counter market regulation, only major issue oi last week's gathering was the proposed elimination of tax-exempt securities. After hearing Chief Counsel John Philip Wenchel of the Bureau of Internal Revenue expound the New Deal doctrine that tax exemption should be ended in order to pump stagnant savings into use, then hearing Banker David Wood rebut with the standard argument that taxing tax-exempts would violate State rights, the assembled investment bankers resolved in favor of eliminating tax exemption on future issues. But this was no New Deal yessing, for banishing...
...many-millioned mass which has virtually no credo because within it is every credo under the U. S. sun. But there are other A. F. of L.s. The one usually labeled in newsprint as "the A. F. of L." is a tight little club of 17 executive councilmen who expound and at intervals alter the otherwise missing credo. Last is the A. F. of L. which goes on show as "the annual convention of the American Federation of Labor...
...Agricultural Economics. A drawling, scholarly man whose hair is the color of July wheat. Economist Black, 42, took to farming almost before he could wield a pitchfork, taught agricultural economics at Iowa State College for four years, joined the AAA's inner council in 1935. Well-qualified to expound the ever-normal granary plan to the London delegates, Economist Black nevertheless failed to convince them...
...statement of philosophy, a piece of poetry, and the expression of a fundamental outlook on Man and the Unknown. But philosophy, poetry, and religion are clearer to some minds than to others; if they are to survive in our society, men must be found to explain them, to expound them, to give them life. At Harvard such a man has taken a Bible course, declining into dotage, inspired it with his own enthusiasm, chiselled it with his incisive mind, and made it one of the most popular and influential courses in the undergraduate curriculum...
...Seven Who Fled is not its gutter transcendentalism but its combination of vivid physical descriptions and wild poetic fantasy. Reading in part like a travel book, it is at the same time peopled with characters who are all amateur philosophers as well as men of action, who expound their beliefs, analyze themselves and the contemporary world in ringing phrases as they commit murder, double-cross each other, go down racked with disease, vice, unspeakable spiritual torment. Readers may question the allegorical significance of Author Prokosch's tale, may feel that his situations are too farfetched to be credible...