Word: hansen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alvin H. Hansen, professor of Political Economy and one of the special economic advisers at Bretton Woods, last night carried the fight for enlightenment on the international economic proposals to a Harvard-Radcliffe audience in an informal address at Cabot Hall. The meeting was sponsored by the Harvard Liberal Union, the Radcliffe Forum, and the Radcliffe League for Democracy...
Emphasizing several little-publicized aspects of the proposals, which are scheduled for early consideration by Congress, Professor Hansen pointed also to the changed economic attitudes displayed at the New Hampshire conference by the delegates. Following a discussion of the history of world monetary problems in the period between the World Wars, the noted business cycle theorist discussed the better known institutions proposed at the conference, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the International Monetary Fund. Broadly, he stated the aim of these agencies to be the preparation of the way for a multi-lateral trade structure...
...anyway. He pops awake every morning at 7, breakfasts an hour later, has a briefing on the previous days' operations at 9:15. The rest of his day is spent in conference or in driving or flying along the front with one of his two aides, Majors "Chet" Hansen and "Lew" Bridge, while his able chief of staff, Major General Leven C. Allen, keeps the operations machinery spinning. After dinner Bradley usually sees a movie (e.g., Janie, Heavenly Body, Bride by Mistake, Dragon Seed) screened by his aides in his quarters, pecks out a letter to his wife...
...lone star swell with pride. Bob Hicks and John Justice agitated the roundup early in the evening--Bob with a hometown Temple date. All in all it was a memorable evening--from the first introduction to the noisy ride back. Nevertheless the boys have decided to have Mr. Hansen audit Rod's books...
...Alvin H. Hansen, professor of Economics, opened the series with his talk on "Scarcity or Abundance-the Problems of Full employment, Production, and consumption." The second forum featured Seymour E. Harris '20, associate professor of Economics, who spoke on "Government and Business...