Word: harrises
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Key. A convincing partisan of the Bronx High School of Science is its principal, Alexander Taffel, 47, who took over the job this year when widely known Former Principal Morris Meister became president of the new Bronx Community College. Says Taffel, onetime gifted student at Townsend Harris, a high...
Hallmark Hall of Fame: In a faultless presentation of the modern crime classic Dial M for Murder, Actor Maurice Evans again showed the British capacity for making the gentle art of homicide good clean fun. Once again, in a role he played on Broadway for some 500 performances, Evans decided...
Terming the current recession "partly a making of the Federal Reserve Board," Seymour E. Harris '20 called for a drastic reversal of present inadequate monetary policies and passage of a more effective unemployment compensation measure, which would "put the money where you need it."
John Meyer, associate professor of Economics, voiced general agreement with Professors Duesenberry and Harris, but pointed out the need for structural changes in certain sectors of the economy, especially those areas where the marginal efficiency of capital is low. "Otherwise," he observed, "maintaining economic growth is likely to be an...
Professor Arthur Smithies, who said that monetary policy was "possibly in danger of being crushed by the Harris-Galbraith steamroller," nevertheless agreed with Professor Harris that a rapid introduction of long-run spending programs and more liberal unemployment measures were urgently needed.