Word: statistician
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...report to Congress next January with recommendations for regulatory legislation. In charge is Commissioner Robert E. Healy, the grey-haired Vermont Republican who conducted most of the six-year investigation of public utility holding companies for the Federal Trade Commission. His first lieutenant is Paul P. Gourrich, a demon statistician who used to work for Kuhn, Loeb & Co. If his German accent were not so pronounced, Paul Gourrich might have been Commissioner Healy's inquisitor. Asking the questions last week was David Schenker, a bright young SEC lawyer who learned about investigations on the staff of Ferdinand Pecora...
Besides being a famed statistician, Roger Ward Babson is a pious Congregationalist who presents a Bible to every new employe in his organization at Wellesley Hills, Mass. He wrote Religion and Business and numerous other books on similar subjects. Last week in South Hadley, Mass. 1,500 Congregationalists and Christians at the biennial meeting of the General Council of their now united Church unanimously elected Statistician Babson their moderator for the next two years. In so doing they not only approved a growing Congregational-Christian feeling toward more lay control of the Church, but drafted for full service a wiry...
...Linn Kieffer; that these show an increase for all U. S. religious bodies of 670,801 members in 1935, or 1.08% as compared with the total U. S. population gain of .71%; that according to Dr. Kieffer "this refutes the statement often made that the Church is declining." Nonetheless Statistician Babson believes that people in general and Congregational-Christians in particular stay away from church, and last week during the South Hadley de liberations, which were broadly planned to focus on "The Effective Church," he arose with some ready ideas on the matter...
Such facts were reported in Manhattan last week to the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies. They were based on a survey of 1,000 Congregational & Christian Churches made by a Commission on Church Attendance headed by that famed and pious statistician, Roger Ward Babson. Bullish on U. S. domestic economy, Statistician Babson is decidedly bearish on the state of U. S. religion...
...headed for the rocks. Paul Mazur looks after department store clients-Gimbels, Hahn's, Associated Dry Goods. He wrote The Crisis and Some Ways Out (1931), other economic books and articles. William J. Hammerslough is head of the firm's investment advisory service. Monroe Gutman is the statistician and analyzer of corporate statements. To this group of conservative, capable, quiet bankers in 1934 went John Daniel Hertz, Chicagoan who collects race horses rather than Madonnas, who is a businessman, not a banker, who has been unsuccessful in business only in his two attempts to retire from it. Born...