Word: loeb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Utopian Reed began his Eastern adventure by announcing an advisory committee, consisting of Esther Strachey (divorced wife of British Journalist John Strachey), Alfred Bingham, editor of Common Sense, Felix J. Frazer and Harold Loeb. Messrs, Loeb and Frazer were handy associates of Mr. Reed. Last spring they were employed under the auspices of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration to make a National Survey of Potential Product Capacity in the U.S. When FERA gave up supporting the survey, New York City's Public Welfare Department saw it through. Three months ago one researcher, Robert R. Doane, caused a sensation...
Last week Messrs. Loeb and Frazer handed in their survey to New York City. Discussing the economy of abundance, they announced that the U. S. could have produced $287,000,000,000 more goods and services in the last five years than it did, that if all productive capacity had been employed every U. S. family might have had an income of $4,370 a year. Mr. Loeb officially concluded: "The research of the N.S.P.P.C. clearly shows (a) that poverty prevails in the U. S.. and always has, but that it need not exist in the future because...
This was so much raw meat for Utopian Reed. Instead of the $20,000 a year income promised two years ago by Technocrats, and the $10,000 a year income promised by Utopians in California, he took Mr. Loeb's figure. $4,370. "These." he said, "are virtually Government figures. Their accuracy is unquestionable...
...years ago by famous men of Harvard can be found ready to be set up again and published. Most of it has been undisturbed for years. One of the rooms, which is filled most of the time, will hold 140,000 pounds of paper. Beyond another doorway is the Loeb Classical Library, in which are stored for sale imported translations of the famous classical authors, a veritable heaven for the College Tutoring Bureau...
...beetled through his spectacles in amazement at the couple, said something secret. Newsman John Origen Herrick and Newswoman Genevieve Forbes dashed happily away, were married on schedule, had three whole days' honeymoon. They were back on the job Sept. 10, just in time to hear Judge Caverly sentence Loeb & Leopold to life imprisonment...