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...newsboy of itself will give an all-rounded education, adequate either for success in vocational life or other activity," said Professor J. M. Brewer, Director of the Bureau of Vocational Guidance of the Harvard Graduate School of Education in answer to a statement made by Roger W. Babson, industrial statistician...
...public wants speed. . . . This Council can save lives by urging States to remove their maximum speed laws so that motorcycle policemen will stop chasing fast cars that are imperiling no one and devote themselves to removing the reckless driver from the highways." Said Louis Dublin, famed statistician of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. "That was the most outrageous talk I ever heard. Mr. Hoffman's doctrine is at the bottom of our troubles. I have known that automobile manufacturers had such thought in their hearts, but this is the first time I ever met one who dared to preach such...
When Roger W. Babson, famed statistician, last month told the Market it was riding to a fall, and then the Market quickly rallied from the depression caused by his statement, Mr. Babson was flayed by all the financial writers in New York whose pleasure it is to reflect the views of their friends, the brokers. "A statistician who has been always wrong"-"A man for whose opinion the market has no great regard"-"A chronic bear always predicting disaster"-were typical introductory sentences to Babson-flaying opinions. Last week the Market broke and the commentators either blamed the Hatry incident...
About 5,000 people in the U. S. claim to be 100 or older. Most of them unintentionally exaggerate, said Louis Dublin, Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. statistician who hastened from the National Safety Council meeting at Chicago last week to the American Public Health Association Convention at Minneapolis. To the health officers he named 80 as the maximum age to which most people could aspire. Medical, public health and sanitary work the past half century has increased the average life of the whole population by 20 years, but has not been able to prevent senility and the deterioration...
Mohawk Hudson Power Corp.: Serving Albany, Schenectady, Utica, Syracuse, many another New York city. Board Chairman is Charles S. Brewer; directorate includes Statistician Roger W. Babson, General Electric's Owen D. Young, also Messrs. Machold and Carlisle...