Word: sumner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...letter to the editors of all Boston newspapers, Professors Sumner Slichter, John Dunlop, James Healy, Douglas Brown, Charles Myers, and Saul Wallen, all labor relations experts and impartial arbitrators, made this observation about referendum no. 6: ". . . The practical effect of this provision would be to cause union members to arm their representatives with a strike vote before negotiations begin. As a result, negotiations will tend to be conducted in an atmosphere of hostility and tension. A similar provisions in the War Labor Disputes Act (Smith-Connally Act) tended to cause strikes rather than prevent them...
Harvard's sage, grey Sumner H. Slichter, who had rightly warned of inflation dangers while others mistakenly worried about a recession, finally thought that the boom was tapering off, but he saw no bust in sight. There were plenty of signs of the boom's end, he told the Mortgage Bankers Association in Manhattan, "in the slackening rate of increase in spending, in the slower rise in prices and wages, in the halt of the increase in bank credit, and in the drop in the net export surplus...
...opponents were formidable. One was Governor Horace A. Hildreth, who was heavily and generously backed by the regular Republican organization, the power companies and many large corporations. Another was former Governor Sumner Sewall, a man who had never lost an election. The third starter was Albion P. Beverage, a Congregational minister with no previous political experience (and, as it turned out, no subsequent political following...
...nominate the rest of the AEC team for staggered terms: Sumner Pike, four years; Lewis Strauss, three; William Waymack, two; Robert Bacher...
Although the committee, co-chaired by Sumner S. Chertok '48 and FrederickM. Fialkow '51, lines up 198 donors before the blood-letting began, 46 of these failed to appear, and, of the donors that did, 22 were turned down because of histories of jaundice, jungle fever, and recurrent colds...