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...University of Chicago's WILLIAM F. OGBURN, 64, the top social statistician in the U.S., onetime director of research for President Hoover's Committee on Social Trends. In 40 years of teaching and research, Sociologist Ogburn has delved deep into everything from living costs to population movements and the tyranny of the machine. His plans after retiring: "I want to spend three months seeing every athletic event in Chicago, then I want to go to all the movies, then I would like to spend several years traveling-I haven't seen the Orient yet-and I want...
...CHARLTON OGBURN...
Trends. Almost everyone thinks he knows what a trend is, but to a sociologist a trend is a numerical series showing change in a more or less constant direction. The University of Chicago's tall, affable William Fielding Ogburn has made a special study of trends. He once headed a detachment of the National Resources Committee which, on the basis of trend analysis, listed 13 technologies due for a booming industrial future (TIME, July 26, 1937). Such predictions are made possible by extending (or, in sociological jargon, "extrapolating") into the future the trend line as charted...
...13th convention noticed that a familiar, pudgy figure from Milwaukee was often in the company of familiar, pudgy President William Green and his secretary, Miss Theodora Glenn. Insiders understood that Wisconsin Progressive Lawyer Joseph Padway was buttering up their president, assumed that he hoped to displace shrewd, moderate Charlton Ogburn as general counsel to the Federation...
Last February in Washington, susceptible Mr. Green announced that his friend Mr. Padway thereafter would be General Counsel Padway, would receive an annual retainer whereas Mr. Ogburn had been paid by the case. Ambitious Mr. Padway promptly opened a suite in the building recently vacated by John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers, spent some $3,000 on fixtures, including a huge bronze of the Lion of Lucerne, set out to become a paid legal lion not only for the Federation but for some of its rich affiliates. Since then he has ably represented the Federation before Congressional committees...