Word: isadore
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...three years ago asking that the committee be set up. Both friends & foes joined in criticism. Editorialized the conservative New York Times: "TNEC . . . proposes to stimulate private enterprise by adopting . . . more . . . Federal controls that have already done so much to burden . . . new enterprise." Said New Dealers Leon Henderson and Isador Lubin, who served on the committee but were too busy with defense work to bother with the final recommendations: "Surely it should be possible, with all this great wealth of evidence ... to offer a concrete program geared to the needs of our time...
Last week this question was analyzed carefully in a long memo from the office of Isador Lubin, Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The memo recalls that World War I's first 16 months brought no price rise, that as late as December 1915 wholesale prices were only 6% above 1913, living costs only 5%. The early part of World War II presents a close parallel: when it started, the wholesale price level was 74.6% of the 1926 level, had been declining almost steadily ever since the end of the 1937 inflation...
Then the moderator turned to Commissioner of Labor Statistics Isador Lubin, asked him about labor's angle on wage and price levels. Mild and scholarly, Lubin tried to head into non-controversial ground. He complimented business, labor and Government on having pushed National Defense without important strikes. Particular thanks were due the New Deal, for having managed to avoid the advances in living costs which usually accompany big rises in production, get labor angry...
...sharp dispute over whether a shortage of mechanics existed: A. F. of L. claimed that an incomplete survey in 33 States by the Social Security Board showed there were 657,000 unemployed skilled craftsmen; employers claimed that they were shorthanded. A partial explanation (offered by U. S. Labor Statistician Isador Lubin): geographically, workers and jobs had not yet got together...
...Dealers' first impulse was to laugh. Nimble-brained, birdlike Isador Lubin, chief numbers man of the New Deal as Commissioner of Labor Statistics, declined to dignify the Thompson-Krock "discovery" with a reply. But by the time the columnists had each propounded a second column in defense of their discovery, their detractors gulped...