Word: stetson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...back up his statement Chase referred to John Stetson Barry's "The History of Massachusetts--The Colonial Period," from which he selected the following extract...
...Sharply at 8:45 o'clock each workday morning the officers of the world's largest hat factory sit down at a worn, carved oak round table, go over the morning mail addressed "John B. Stetson Co., Philadelphia, Pa.", and discuss company matters. Since last June when Stetson's third president, George V. MacKinnon died, the president's chair has been vacant. This week it was occupied. Fourth head of the 74-year-old Stetson business was robust, grey-haired, 43-year-old George L. Russell Jr., former vice president and treasurer. After a miserable...
HARLAN T. STETSON...
Since sunspot behavior is irregular, it is sometimes impossible to tell that a peak or a trough has been passed until many months afterward. At a summer meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Ottawa last week, Dr. Harlan True Stetson of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, reported that the peak of the current cycle had been reached and passed in July 1937. The spots are now on the downgrade therefore, and the world can look forward to a minimum of magnetic storms and to uninterrupted radio communication for four or five more years...
...Stetson is the author of Sunspots and Their Effects (TIME, Nov. 22), in which he ventured the opinion that sunspots may affect human psychology through such channels as vitamin intake, electrical effects on nerve impulses, electrified particles in the air. Hence, since business activity is "fundamentally a curve of mass psychology," sunspots may affect stockmarket prices and other indices of prosperity. From 1929 through the Depression bottom of 1932 to the highs of 1937, the correspondence between active sunspots and booming business has been remarkably close. Last week it was also seen that the July 1937 sunspot peak preceded...