Word: galbraithe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John Kenneth Galbraith, professor of Economics, declared he prefers John F. Kennedy '40 for President, in a poll of 54 men and women published by Esquire this week. Only one of six other Harvard professors stating their Presidential choices agreed with Galbraith...
...Crane Brinton '19, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History, supported Kennedy along with Galbraith and three others. Brinton framed the major issue of the times as: "orthodox or 'classical' economics, and what I'll call Keynesian or Galbraithian economics: . . . whether we are to let our present methods of production and distribution produce the kind of consumers' goods that annoy the intellectuals, or whether we will tamper politically so as to produce education, housing, hospitals, public transportation, which people ought to want...
...intellectual aplomb was shattered by the revelations of Professors Schlesinger and Galbraith that the Corporations has overtly discriminated against deserving Democrats. It would seem that possibly as many as twenty-three deserving Republicans have received honorary degrees, while only four democrats have been so honored by Harvard...
...happy to have the privilege of attending Harvard at a time when it has such staunch defenders of liberalism as Professors Schlesinger and Galbraith...
...Galbraith praised the results of the American aid policy in Europe, but also blamed that policy indirectly for the government's current dollar loss. So much attention has been devoted to European economics, he explained, that the American financial situation has been somewhat neglected...