Word: scotts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Francisco lay California's Governor James Rolph. infected at Sacramento. Ill in Manhattan lay Howard Scott, Chief Technocrat, whose wife (Eleanor Steele) attributes his disability to Technocracy...
Various expedients have been proposed to thwart the depression, most of them involving some more or less temporary modification of the present economic system. Such are the various arrangements of barter, and Howard Scott's contribution, Technocracy. Certain Senators and other men in public life have recently added another proposition to the list: namely, an inflation of currency. The issuance of currency which is not redeemable in gold, in a nation which is not redeemable in gold, in a nation which is on the gold standard, is what is ordinarily meant by inflation. This is what the advocates...
...together with 400 bankers, industrialists, artists and economists, was dined at the smart, beautiful and bankrupt Hotel Pierre in Manhattan. It delivered a broadcast speech through its Howard Scott, bragging that: "Months ago we were a quiet, unknown, non-profit organization. . . . We have written 14,000 words. Those 14,000 words, to judge from the results, are the most potent 14,000 words that have been written up to date, if action and interest and curiosity are any judge of results." Having spoken, it scowled fiercely at questioners, refused to answer. Earlier in the evening its Scott had said...
...Scott vs. Wilson, Argument, Thursday, February 16, Chief Justice; Dean Pound...
After sending in a two-year subscription to TIME so that I could get my news complete, concise and readable, picture my dismay in trying to decipher your paragraph on Technocrat Howard Scott, The Man- "obfuscate," "rodo-montade," (my dictionary gives the adjective as "rodomont"), "ratiocinated," "transmogrified," "pupated...