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Friedman is a vocal and prolific economist known for his firm devotion to monetary economic theory at a time when most other economists subscribed to Keynesian theory. Friedman has served on the faculty of the University of Chicago from 1946 to 1977 and senior research fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institute since 1977. He writes an economic column for Newsweek. An ardent supporter of free enterprise, Friedman believes that many government welfare and antipoverty programs do more harm than good, and he especially disapproves of manipulating government tax and expenditure rates to stabilize the economy. A firm believer in limiting...
Sidney Hook Hoover Institution Stanford, Calif...
...deadlines, talented and strong-willed personnel, powerful friends and enemies. Most important, they include the tumultuous past four decades of U.S. history. "Until March 1933," Halberstam writes, "through a world war and a Great Depression, the White House had employed only one person to handle the incoming mail. Herbert Hoover had received, for example, some 40 letters a day. After Franklin Roosevelt arrived and began to make his radio speeches, the average was closer to 4,000 letters a day." After F.D.R. and radio found each other, the faster news was reported the faster it began to occur...
...multiplying costs, he insists. "In a library like Harvard's, whose expenditures are much larger than any University in the world, there is a necessity to maintain our commitments to collecting." From a man who first got interested in library work while dissecting German war papers at Stanford's Hoover Institution, this feeling comes as no great surprise. "The degree to which libraries can coordinate their efforts is the field in which there is greatest hope," Bryant predicts. He goes on: "One of the most interesting aspects of my own work has been to increase the degree and quality...
...check their roots religiously. But who has turned up so many distinguished kin as Mormon President Spencer W. Kimball? According to the Church News, Kimball is related, at times to the seventh cousin once removed, to John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Franklin Pierce, Chester A. Arthur, Grover Cleveland, Herbert Hoover, Richard M. Nixon, Gerald Ford and an eclectic lot of non-Presidents including John Foster Dulles, George Gallup, Aaron Burr, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Walt Disney and Humphrey Bogart. Though the Church News makes no mention of it, Kimball can boast such a fruitful family tree largely because his grandfather...