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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in the current issue of his monthly business review, Analyst Ayres undertook to destroy the common faith in common stocks as a hedge against inflation. With the aid of a chart showing the course of stock prices in terms of the cost of living, he reviewed the record in France, Germany and the U. S. during the War and post-War inflation. If stock prices had risen as fast as the cost of living, Mr. Ayres's bold, black zigzags would have fluctuated close to the basic chart line 100. The U. S. index, however, dropped...
Included among the list of speakers are: President Conant: Wallace B. Donham '98, Dean of the Business School; commissioner William O. Douglas of the Securities and Exchange Commission; Leon C. Marshall '04, of the Division of Review of the N. R. A.: Dr. Willard Thorp, formerly Director of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce; and Dean Everett W. Lord of Boston University...
Grounds were highly specious. The Republic's constitution allows the President to dissolve two Parliaments, the second dissolution being subject to review by the third Parliament. If the Cortes decides that the second dissolution was "unnecessary," the President must resign. The Leftists counted as No. 1 President Zamora's routine dissolution of the Republic's constituent assembly (not strictly a Parliament), as No. 2 last January's dissolution of the Cortes...
...Spanish War started, drew him into a dreary camp in Georgia. His sufferings there under army inefficiency started him thinking about politics, economics, sent him back to teaching with a thirst for modern facts. After posts at Bryn Mawr, Columbia. Nebraska. Chicago, Cornell, Stanford, journalism for the Unpopular Review and The New Republic, he was made Director of Manhattan's New School for Social Research in 1923, is there still...
...employable to make more room for competent middle-aged workers, sound as the policy may be of itself, is equally sure to go the way of all regimentation. The merit of such propositions is irrelevant as long as this nation adheres to substantially the same Constitution and to judicial review. Until the President comes out with the bravery to propose an amendment to the Constitution giving the federal government control over intra-state industry and commerce, his benevolent aims for labor must be regarded as a most transparent species of reaching for the moon, or for the votes...