Word: statisticians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...overpopulation but depopulation that threatens our country today, asserted Mr. Goldstein. "With birth prevention, and its corrolary, divorce, unfortunately on the increase, the trend of events point the other way. The figures presented recently by Mr. Louis I. Dublin, the insurance statistician, show that America will have to abolish her restrictive immigration laws to keep up to her numbers if the natural laws of generation are not more fully obeyed by our married native population. If our country should legalize the dissemination of anti-procreation information, advocated at this Harvard Liberal Club a couple of weeks ago, a disregard...
Other scientists and sociologists spoke, some cautiously, some daringly. A British doctor went so far as to advocate, and predict, not only the general adoption of contraceptive practices, but even the killing of defective babies at birth. An insurance statistician, Dr. Louis I. Dublin of Manhattan, was invited to present opposite views. He did so. declaring the population rise of the U. S. was no menace; indeed, the birth rate of the native population was steadily decreasing. He suggested that U. S. birth controllers bend their energies toward encouraging larger families among the well...
Colonel Leonard P. Ayres, famed Cleveland banker-statistician, has expressed definite views concerning future business He points out that for the first time in a decade the four most fundamental causes of prosperity are all present. These factors are: 1) Increasing industrial production; 2) farm prosperity; 3) increasing exports ; 4) easy money conditions. Beginning last summer, these four prerequisites to prosperous business appeared together, and in all probability they will remain with us during...
...wrote to the General Electric Co. asking for a job, misdirected his letter to the Western Electric Co. This story, which has been often told of him, ends with the words "He got the job." In 1908, he was transferred to the American Telephone & Telegraph Co., made chief statistician-a position which he held until...
...ends of the world to fill the Post with daily tidings from afar. He has fattened and sleekened every page, stinting nothing to give his creature an air of brisk, full-blooded opulence and suavity. Where the Times drones and expatiates with the pensiveness of a scholarly, grey bearded statistician; where the Herald-Tribune stands brightly but carefully pat like a promising young member of the Stock Exchange; where the World, like a self-made man with brains, ideals and a deep vein of cynicism, cloaks terse and forceful thought beneath a lively flow of front-page vulgarity; where...