Word: statistician
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Board's statement. Practically every major industry has been operating under a code since August. . . . With the exception of the steel industry, every report we have received from major industries shows a definite upward trend." Dr. Emanuel Alexander Goldenweiser, the Federal Reserve's chief researcher and statistician, was treated to a telephone tirade by General Johnson who subsequently announced that Dr. Goldenweiser admitted the Reserve's statement was "inadvertent." Dr. Goldenweiser would not discuss the matter for publication...
...bonds. Meantime another and more fearsome ghost had risen to plague Daniel Willard. Last spring Boston's crusty old Frederick Henry Prince, whose pet aversion is professors in Government and whose fortune is chiefly in railroads, turned up in Washington with one of Wall Street's smartest statisticians and a plan to merge all U. S. railroads into seven regional systems (TIME, April 10). Because it involved firing 300,000 railroad employees, the Prince plan was pigeonholed. But Mr. Prince's statistician, John Walker Barriger III, remained in Washington to become Chief Examiner...
...Last week the Presbyterians launched a supplementary canvass. They called it a "Spiritual Recovery Crusade." They began organizing the nation's 10,000 Presbyterian ministers to "Do Our Part" in a great drive which will culminate with special church services everywhere Oct. 29. Said Dr. Herman Carl Weber, statistician and Every Member executive of his church: "A supplementary canvass for your church is your expected contribution to National Recovery...
...American City Magazine; President Appleton P. Clark Jr. of Washington Sanitary Housing Corp.; New York's Ralph Borsodi, economist who grinds his own flour at home and whose plan for making the unemployed produce their own necessities was adopted last autumn in Dayton; Howard Whipple Green, Cleveland statistician, author of exhaustive studies of Cleveland's population and buying power; Eugene Henry Klaber of American Institute of Architects; Cincinnati's able Lawyer Alfred Bettman, vice president of the National Conference on City Planning; Sociologist Edith Elmer Wood, author of Recent Trends in American Housing. The conference talked & talked...
...headquarters. He got his education at Johns Hopkins (A. B. 1911; Ph. D. 1914), taught at Hobart, Harvard and Michigan before settling down in his present professorial post at Columbia. Like General Johnson, he served during the War with Bernard Baruch's War Industries Board, as chief production statistician. He was later taken to the Paris Peace Conference with President Wilson. He can play the NRA game on his home grounds, since his special field of activity has long been U. S. labor unions and their ailments. Instinctively sympathetic to unionism, he did much valuable research for Sidney Hillman...