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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...return from a European vacation, Dr. Leo Wolman of NRA's Labor Advisory Board took temporary command. Baltimore-born 43 years ago, this liberal economist has lately shot up to a position of major importance at NRA headquarters. He got his education at Johns Hopkins (A. B. 1911; Ph. D. 1914), taught at Hobart, Harvard and Michigan before settling down in his present professorial post at Columbia. Like General Johnson, he served during the War with Bernard Baruch's War Industries Board, as chief production statistician. He was later taken to the Paris Peace Conference with President Wilson...
Graduated from Harvard in 1884, Scholar Penrose snapped up M. A. and Ph. D. degrees in two years more, got into field work for the Texas and Arkansas Geological Surveys. His academic career carried him to the University of Chicago's Chair of Economic Geology, presidency of the Society of Economic Geology and the Geological Society of America...
Graduated by Virginia's Polytechnic Institute in 1895, young Dodd went to Germany, took his Ph. D. at the University of Leipzig. Later he taught history at Randolph-Macon, went to the University of Chicago in 1908. A professorial friend of Professor Woodrow Wilson, he went frequently to the White House, in Washington met Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin Roosevelt. With Ray Stannard Baker he edited President Wilson's papers for publication. He has written Jefferson's Rückkehr zur Politik (an account in German of Jefferson's first Presidential campaign), Life of Jefferson...
...oldtime. hard-driving intellect over new style business efficiency. James Conant is one of his country's foremost organic chemists. Born in Dorchester, Mass., son of an able wood-engraver, he took his Harvard A. B. (Class of 1914) in three years, magna cum laude. While taking his Ph. D. he was a teaching fellow. During the War he worked on gases, became a major in the Chemical Warfare Service. Then he returned to Harvard and, because the university feared losing him to another college, Dr. Conant was made assistant professor six years after taking...
...known as the first person to climb all the high Adirondacks. Graduated from the New York State College of Forestry and the Harvard Forest School, he spent four years with the U. S. Forest Service in Montana and Idaho. Two years at Johns Hopkins gave him his Ph. D. in plant physiology. At present Dr. Marshall is in Washington. D. C. with the Government's Forest Service...