Word: lubin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius Jr. appointed small, sharp-eyed Dr. Isador Lubin, White House factfinder and economic adviser, to represent the U.S. on the Reparations Commission. This week Dr. Lubin was preparing for a trip to Moscow, where the Commission will sit. At the same time, Elder Statesman Bernard M. Baruch was expected in London to explore Germany's postwar economics, talk with Winston Churchill about what should be exacted from Germany...
...offices were also needed. While the construction work was going on, he proposed, why not look ahead and prepare the East Wing of the White House to be a museum? He made sketches, blueprints were drawn, carpenters carried them out. Now, in the wing where Byrnes, Hopkins, Leahy and Lubin have their offices, all is ready for carpenters to come again after the war, knock down old partitions, put up new ones to make a series of at least 31 rooms...
...months of 1941, they increased 33 per cent over those for the similar period the previous year. Even the Wall Street Journal says that profits have increased. There has been a price rise of 14 per cent of which only 7 per cent is due to labor costs, Isidore Lubin, U. S. Labor Commissioner, reported to a Senate committee. Lubin further asserted that labor costs were steadily decreasing, since output per man has increased 11 per cent...
...Adviser To reduce delay and remove confusion around his own desk, Franklin Roosevelt last week appointed short, stumpy Isador Lubin, 44, head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, to tell him what is what among figures. There will be plenty of work for Lubin. Today nearly every visitor to the White House comes armed with statistics to back his arguments. Usually there is a delay-which sometimes, as in fights over steel capacity, turns into monumental confusion-while conflicting figures are checked and argued over. Moreover, President Roosevelt, no economist, naturally leans toward the views of the men with...
Often called a statistical genius, Economist Lubin is one New Dealer who won the respect of conservatives for his professional achievements, has long been a member of the inner circle of New Deal economic advisers, but has rarely been at the White House. His new, jawbreaking title: Economic Assistant to the President on Defense Matters...