Word: lamonts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week President Donald Lamont Brown of United Aircraft Corp., which owns Pratt & Whitney, could have been expected to pinch himself as he looked over the production report of his engine division. Sawing away at a backlog of something like $100,000,000 (United's total backlog: above $115,000,000), Pratt & Whitney has hit the high point of its production history, above 350* engines a month, more than double its average for 1938. This production will be doubled when the new plant reaches its capacity next spring...
...Academy of Political Science, Thomas Lament spoke to 1,000 members on war's effects on U. S. economy, made it clear that, whether or not U. S. citizens agreed or disagreed with his proposals, the Get-in-or-Stay-out-theory had had its day. Lamont points...
Peace. But what of the peace? There can be no world economic peace without U. S. cooperation, said Thomas Lamont. The U. S. role should be to keep out of war, contribute to the peace. The form of economic cooperation necessary to "establish peace, recovery and re-employment" he would not guess, mentioned an economic union of countries in Western Europe, of a United States of Europe, spoke of its "immensely stabilizing effect" upon the world. "It would be measurably the counterpart of the great free-trade area of our own United States. ... It would be creating a situation that...
...main speaker of the evening, Mr. Lamont said that the University was stifling free speech by Communist leaders, and refused to consider that the University merely refuses to hear these doctrines from the mouths of alleged criminals. He claimed full support of Browder's speaking for the John Reed Society among the alumni, which is ridiculous. And all the while he was claiming suppression of Communist or Socialist doctrine by the University, he interspersed glowing pictures of the Socialist State, and even went so far as to hold out alluring promises of $5,000 a year to its members...
Besides showing an active interest in the doings of the University, Lamont served on the Board of Overseers from...