Word: pollak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Editorial Department, chairman, E. A. Mays; sub-chairmen, A. D. Bell; G. C. Homans, B. E. Pollak, and J. W. Sandford...
...William Trufant Foster, Boston pedagog-economist, director of the Pollak Foundation for Economic Research, and Waddell Catchings, Manhattan manufacturer-financier (shoes, collars, cans, rubber, motors, fruit, cereals, dairy produce, drugs, magazines, cinema), collaborated lately on a book* in which they suggested that all U. S. markets would be steadied if the governmental agencies of the U. S.-federal, state, municipal-would map out and authorize large programs of public work which will be needed eventually though not immediately. Let these programs then be held in abeyance, said the collaborators, until such time as labor and fiscal indices show or predict...
...Foster '01 of Newton is now the director of the Pollak foundation, an organization founded for the purpose of conducting economic research; from 1910 to 1920 he was president of Reed College, Portland, Oregon, and had formerly been a lecturer at Columbia and a professor at Rowdoin...
...Powell, J. R. Quaries, F. C. Reed, J. B. Tracy and J. B. Wolbarsht. The second year men were: W. E. Barber, F. S. Balthis, Samuel Checkver, M. O. Damon, Lewis Eten, E. R. Hoover, N. S. Hyman, F. H. Jurow, W. E. Sytle, Isadore Poller, H. R. Pollak, Leon Pressman, M. G. Sampsell, J. P. Tumulty Jr., C. M. Whiting, and C. H. Willard...
Speaking on "An Evaluation of American Colleges," W. T. Foster '01, Director of the Pollak Foundation for Economic Research, and former President of Reed College, compared Harvard to Reed, to the advantage of the latter...