Word: planner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thermometer or Tool? He and Chairman Nourse were constantly at loggerheads. Nourse, onetime vice president of Brookings Institution, who thought of himself as an economist and nothing else, stuck pretty close to economic orthodoxy. Keyserling, an avid Government planner, was further to the left. The council's third member, John D. Clark, skittered around vaguely somewhere in between. The chief difference between Nourse and Keyserling was in their interpretations of CEA's job. Nourse thought it was chiefly to hold a thermometer under the nation's tongue and dispassionately report the results. Keyserling thought...
...Planner Keyserling could find plenty of pat reasons for assuring the President that there was nothing to worry about in the staggering $255 billion national debt. He could find fair-sounding reasons for supporting Harry Truman's threat to break into the steel industry with Government-run plants, reasons why the President should demand new curbs over business. Such glib reasoning was too much for Dr. Nourse, but judging from last week's appointment, it was just right with Mr. Truman. Businessmen, whom Keyserling recently had been trying to win over by soft words, kept their fingers crossed...
...year ago, when Stalin purged Economics Planner Nikolai Voznesensky from the Politburo, a top U.S. diplomat in Moscow said: "Voznesensky made one big mistake. He tried too hard to please Stalin by turning out capital goods [to rebuild Russia] instead of consumer goods. He thought the Russian people could wait a little longer while he made a good showing. What the average Russian wanted was a pair of pants...
Brilliantly in Greek. Some people maintain that Manchester was the only place where Harold Laski could have been born. Manchester had nursed the industrial revolution and produced the "Manchester school" of laissez-faire liberals e.g., John Bright, Jeremy Bentham, Richard Cobden. State Planner Harold Laski, the argument went, was History's revenge on the city of Manchester...
...South American countries met in Rio de Janeiro last week to thresh out regional problems and talk policy. Sparkplug of the meeting was brisk, affable Edward G. Miller, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs. Also present, as observer and counselor: the State Department's planner in chief, scholarly George F. Kennan...