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...Maurer's predecessor as moderator, famed Statistician Roger W. Babson, jumped on this statement with both feet. Cried white-goateed, spry old Businessman Babson, 1940 Presidential candidate of the Prohibition Party: "Congregationalism was the original Protestant denomination that fought for democracy, namely delegates from each church. Now they have only one delegate from five churches, and they say they haven't hotel space for more. All nonsense." Businessman Babson then presented a resolution for the "Democratization of Congregationalism." Politely but firmly the convention pigeonholed...
...sharp dispute over whether a shortage of mechanics existed: A. F. of L. claimed that an incomplete survey in 33 States by the Social Security Board showed there were 657,000 unemployed skilled craftsmen; employers claimed that they were shorthanded. A partial explanation (offered by U. S. Labor Statistician Isador Lubin): geographically, workers and jobs had not yet got together...
Chairman of the museum's board of directors is Dr. Louis Israel Dublin, vice president of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., and greatest vital statistician in the world. Last week Dr. Dublin announced that the million-dollar display will be given a permanent home when the Fair closes, continue as the first popular museum of medicine and public health...
...regarded by his friends and admirers as one of the world's wisest students of political and social phenomena, by his critics as an opinionated old windbag. He regards himself as a social scientist who brings scientific method to political prophecy and economic analysis. Onetime Federal Reserve Bank statistician, onetime president of the American Statistical Association, he is now retired to write about his findings (latest book...
...Statistician Snyder has made an analysis of political trends in the 48 States. He has charted the recent ups & downs of Democratic and Republican straw-polling. Then by mathematical means - the "calculus of probability" and the principles of momentum and inertia - he calculates the shape of the trend curves as they reach into the future. By noting the height of the curve at a given future time, say next November, he arrives at the voting sentiment which he believes will then exist...