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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...professor and tutor in mathematics, leaves today on a trip which will take him as far west as St. Louis, according to an announcement made late yesterday afternoon. His chief object will be to give to Harvard graduates in the west a description uncolored by rumors, of the much discussed House Plan. For this purpose, he will address the Harvard Club of St. Louis on February 20, and on the following night he plans to speak before the Harvard Club of Chicago...
...general unemployment, when it occurs, by increasing the expenditures of the federal and state governments on public works which are to be held in abeyance in anticipation of such contingencies. The immediate task is to arrange for the recording of the facts which will show when, where, and how much unemployment exists...
...unless we learn how to control business activities better than has been done heretofore, the problem of general unemployment will arise again acutely as it did in 1921, 1908, and other periods of business depression. Heretofore resort has been had to soup kitchens, special commissions and conferences, and much talk, which continued until the distress had been relieved by changes in economic conditions...
...extent. At the present time, however, there are practically no dependable statistics collected in the United States on unemployment. In the winter of 1927, for example, extensive discussion took place in Congress and elsewhere regarding the current unemployment, but to this day no one knows even approximately how much unemployment existed at that time. Hence Mr. Hoover wisely has stressed the importance of providing for the regular monthly compilation of records of unemployment, and here in Massachusetts Representative Shattuck has introduced a bill into the legislature to authorize the collection of such data in this state. When that bill...
...likely that Benson, the indoor intercollegiate two-mile champion, may nose him out in the longer race, especially if he withdraws from the mile. If he runs in both events, it is quite likely that he will capture a second place in each, although the strain may prove too much for him. R. C. Aldrich '31 and J. O. Wildes '30 are the other Crimson hopes in the mile run. Both have been showing up well during the cross-country and winter seasons and are considered capable of coping with the other Cornell threats, Eldridge and Levering. Should Benson, however...