Word: stuarts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such statistics are not new. The late Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) recited similarly as early as 1921 when he published The Engineers & The Price System Economist Stuart Chase, Veblen's friend has been writing similarly since. But last summer a tall, middle-aged man named Howard Scott with a wide-brimmed hat and a prodigiously rapid, sharp, agile tongue, was being received and handed around by alert tycoons, notably Banker Frank Arthur Vanderlip. From one drawing room and dinner to another he moved everywhere causing gasps of amazement, scowls of worry, questions of deep and inquiring respect...
...next recordable appearance is in 1920 as director of the Technical Alliance a loose organization for the discussion of social implications of the Machine Age. The late Charles Proteus Steinmetz and Thorstein Veblen were members. Other, living ones, are Stuart Chase, Frederick Lee Ackerman (Manhattan architect), Bassett Jones (Manhattan elevator engineer). They erroneously believed Howard Scott a doctor of science from the Technische Hochschule, at Charlottenburg, Germany. The interlocutions of the Technical Alliance languished. But Howard Scott, in Greenwich Village, prated and ratiocinated...
...rationalization. We have to find excuses to justify the messes we get into, and the excuses must further the cause by casting credit upon ourselves. Thus in war both sides are equally righteous and unrighteous at the time, but subsequent critical reflection usually discerns a predominance of the latter. Stuart Buckins...
...many respects unique in the U. S. Croton-on-Hudson. N. Y. is a quiet village near Harmon, where New York Central trains exchange steam for electricity. The sprawling, bridge-playing, gin-drinking suburbs of New York have not yet entangled it. In Croton, seven years ago, settled Economist Stuart Chase, his wife Margaret Hatfield, Elizabeth Moos, a former teacher at Walden and other modern schools, and her husband Robert Imandt, violinist, onetime French Army man, camp director. Between them Miss Hatfield and Miss Moos had three children. They wanted to teach them. They went to it in a garage...
...AMERICA - Bernard De Voto - Little, Brown ($4). MEMOIRS OF HECTOR BERLIOZ - edited by Ernest Newman - Knopf ($5). MEMOIRS OF PRINCE VON BULOW - Vols. Ill & IV - Little, Brown ($5 each). MEN AGAINST DEATH - PAUL DE KRUIF - Harcourt, Brace ($3.50). MORE MERRY-GO-ROUND - Anonymous - Liveright ($3). A NEW DEAL - Stuart Chase - Macmil lan ($2). OUR TIMES : Vol. IV, The War Begins, (&-" - (,93-75;-1909-1914 - Mark Sullivan - Scribner (3.75) RETLTRN TO YESTERDAY-Ford Madox Ford-Liveright ($4). THE REVOLT OF THE MASSES-Jose Ortega y Gasset-Norton ($2.75). THE SAVAGE PILGRIMAGE : A NARRATIVE OF D. H. LAWRENCE-Catherine Carswell -Harcourt, Brace...