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...audience, applauding as loudly as if academic degrees were something new in the family, stood Mary Myrtle Moulton's seven brothers, including 1) Harold G. Moulton, 61, Ph.D., eight times LL.D., author of a dozen-odd books on economics and finance, president of the Brookings Institution in Washington; 2) Forest Ray Moulton, 73, Ph.D., LL.D., twice Sc.D., secretary of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; 3) Elton J. Moulton, 57, M.A., Ph.D., onetime dean of the graduate school and now head of the mathematics department at Northwestern University; 4) Earl L. Moulton, 66, onetime public-school teacher...
...eight Moultons were born and raised in a 15-ft.-square log cabin that Father Belah Moulton built on a homesteaded tract near Reed City, Mich, after returning from the Civil War. Despite their poverty, Mother Mary Moulton, who had been a country school teacher, insisted that every last one of the children get an education. Every one of them did. But Sister Mary, after years of country school-teaching, did not get her A.B. until 15 years...
...textbook writers, have sometimes been highly readable writers. Proof of it is available this week in a new collection of the history-making but seldom-read writings of 100 of the world's greatest scientists. It is The Autobiography of Science (Doubleday, Doran; $4), edited by Forest Ray Moulton, secretary of the American Association for the Advance ment of Science, and Justus J. Schifferes. By & large, this anthology bears out its editors' assertion that "good science makes good reading." Three cases in point...
Built on Sand. Furthermore Messrs. Moulton and Mayer held that the Department of Commerce used a faulty method to reach its estimate of $140 billion in national income for the first "normal" postwar year. (Most economists figure on the end of both wars in 1945, the first normal year in 1947.) The Department has "too readily assumed" that the prewar increase in output per man (2½ to 3% a year) has continued during the war. Thus by 1947, according to the Department, the U.S. will have boosted productivity some 20%, and national income accordingly. The Department figures were "taken...
Apostle of Defeat. Over & above the squabble over figures, one fact stood out: there is a widening split between the conservative thinking of Dr. Moulton's Institution and the optimistic approach to the postwar problems of business of such groups as C.E.D. As one bigwig summed up: "Brookings Institution appears to be becoming the modern apostle of defeatism. Its position implies that the ingenuity and initiative of American businessmen and workers, so completely demonstrated during the war, will disappear with the peace. This suggests the defeatism of believers in the mature economy theory...