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...Rationalization," and a report on the "Social Aspects of Rationalization" published by the International Labor Office at Geneva in 1931, will serve as an introduction to the foreign field. The best general digest of material published in this country may be found in an article in the Monthly Labor Review published by the U. S. Department of Labor in November 1932 on "Technological Changes, Productivity of Labor and Labor Displacement...
...February of the same year the Monthly Labor Review published a lengthy bibliography on "Dismissal Compensation" which skirts the same held. See also issues for October and December 1931, January, April, June and August 1932. Other important articles are a series by Rexford G. Tugwell on the "Theory of Occupational Obsolescence" beginning in the Political Science Quarterly in June 1031; an article by Robert G. Myers in the Journal of Political Economy, August 1929: an article by Clague & Couper in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, February 1931: studies by Elizabeth F. Baker in the American Economics Review, 1930, by Paul...
...Executive Mansion conservatory at Albany, where he took regular underwater leg exercises between trips to Warm Springs. ¶ In December 1929, President Hoover, v.ith the aid of $500,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation, appointed a Research Committee on Social Trends "with a view to providing such a review as might supply a basis for the formulation of large national policies looking to the next phase in the nation's development." The committee: Wesley Clair Mitchell, chairman. Professor of Economics at Columbia: Charles Edward Merriam. Professor of Political Science at Chicago; Shelby Millard Harrison, general director of the Russell Sage...
There was no celebration. Comrade Stalin knew better than to review troops or the populace in the Red Square. Russians are hungrier this winter than they have been in several years (TIME. Sept. 12 et seq.). They blame the food shortage on the Plan, blame Dictator Stalin for the Plan, and yet are docile. Things were so quiet in Moscow last week that Soviet censors calmly passed dozens of dispatches stating that Russia has failed to achieve anything like complete or uniform fulfillment of her Plan...
...meeting of the American Economic association, the body which sponsors the publication of the American Economic Review, W. Z. Ripley, Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy, was elected president of the body. The meeting was held in Cincinnati, from December 28 to December 30. Professor Ripley did not attend the meeting, as he is at present studying in Europe, and the honor came as a complete surprise...