Word: pres
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...declared, " business men will cooperate with the President . . . there is no reason to fear there will be a serious financial or commercial disturbance or depression during the next few months." Despite the pres-ent handicaps of high and burdensome taxes, high costs of production and high costs of living, the Judge looks forward cheerfully to conditions in the iron and steel industry. He recognizes that the returns on capital invested in the business are inadequate, and that the industry is not operating at full capacity. Yet he considers the outlook good, and anticipates heavy purchasing by railroads, constructors, oil producers...
...possibilities of new political alignment with Mr. Coolidge as Pres- ident are extremely various. With one sweep the jokester, Fate, took all the pieces off one side of the political chessboard; then put them back in new arrangement...
John Henry MacCracken, Pres., Lafayette College...
George A. Plimpton, Pres., Board of Trustees, Amherst College...
Henry S. Pritchett, Pres., Carnegie Foundation