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...economists of the era rejected his idea and favored balanced budgets. Most politicians didn't understand his idea to begin with. "Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist," Keynes wrote. In the 1932 presidential election, Franklin D. Roosevelt had blasted Herbert Hoover for running a deficit, and dutifully promised he would balance the budget if elected. Keynes' visit to the White House two years later to urge F.D.R. to do more deficit spending wasn't exactly a blazing success. "He left a whole rigmarole of figures...
Baer is a social studies and Afro-Americanstudies concentrator. He has been involved in theFranklin After-School Education (FASE), a PBHAprogram that works with elementary school childrenfrom Franklin Hill and Franklin Field, two housingshelters...
Hirabayashi came to address an Institute of Politics (IOP) forum about his personal experiences as a nisei(second-generation Japanese-American) after Executive Order 9066 was issued by President Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...Professor of Physics Melissa E. Franklin,one of two tenured female faculty members in thephysics department, said that although she cannotpoint to specific incidences of discrimination,she believes that similar discrimination may existat Harvard...
Harvard's main obstacle to full equality is thelack of women Faculty members, Franklin said. "Ithink [hiring more women Faculty members] wouldfix all the problems," she said. According toElizabeth Doherty, assistant dean for academicplanning, in the natural sciences only nine of 164tenured Faculty members, or 5.5 percent, arewomen. Of the entire Faculty, 58 out of 433tenured Faculty members, or 13.4 percent, arewomen...