Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Taussig has served on the Harvard faculty since 1882, and has held the positions of chairman of the United States Tariff Commission and president of the American Economic Association. He is at present editor of the Quarterly Journal of Economics, a position he has filled since...
...perhaps, is his "Principles of Economics" which together with his other copious writings has colored the economic thought of the country for almost forty years. Outside of strictly academic pursuits he found myriad interests ranging from Chairman of the Wilson Tariff Commission in 1917 to editorship of the Quarterly Journal of Economics, which post he has held with distinction since...
...odds were 3-to-1 in his favor, regardless of what the nominating committee might do. Pro-Whitney brokers passed out petition cards directed to the nominating committee and needing only a member's signature. "Tammany Tactics!" cried pro-Gay brokers. The plebeian New York Evening Journal even mailed out to all Stock Exchange members straw ballots which so alarmed the nominating committee that it dispatched a plea over the ticker requesting members to refrain from any & all unofficial voting. And from his chambers New York Supreme Court Justice Ferdinand Pecora issued a hasty denial that he sought...
...Last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association Drs. Samuel Peck and Nathan Rosenthal of Manhattan reported success in controlling various types of hemorrhage with injections of venom...
...years ago the Journal became exercised over the plight of local laundrymen who were required to pay fees not only to the Benevolent Association but also to the city, under a new ordinance. Editor Jee, who had taken a degree in Political Science at Haverford College, Pa., exhorted the laundrymen to Organize. They did, and soon ran afoul of the Benevolent Association. In his little Canal Street print shop, crusading Editor Jee's ink-brush splashed out pages of copy flaying the Association for "corrupt practices." Frightened advertisers pulled out of the Journal while Editor Jee raged...