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Nadav Safran received the Chase Award for his doctoral dissertation, "Modern Egypt in Search of an Ideology;" the Sumner Award goes to Stafford G.W. Johnston 7G for "The Primacy of Justice: A Study of Liberalism and its Role in World Politics;" and the Toppan Prize to Paul E. Sigmund, Jr. 6G for "Hierarchy and Consent: The Political Theory of Nicholas of Cusa...
...when the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. wanted to sell a large block this spring, it first split the old shares, selling at around $500, so that the price to the public was $44.50 a share. Even conservative underwriters think there is a time for companies to split. Says Sumner Emerson, partner of Morgan Stanley & Co.: "A company that is going ahead fast and thinks it is going to have to sell more stock to finance its growth should probably split when its shares go to a high price...
...SUMNER G. WHITTIER
...think there is a single sacred cow you haven't kicked," said Illinois' Democratic Senator Paul Douglas to Harvard Professor Sumner H. Slichter last week. Belligerent, grey-haired Economist Slichter's cow-kicking had thoroughly be-dazed Douglas' Joint Congressional Economic Committee at the start of its large-scale inquiry into how to achieve economic growth without inflation...
Nevertheless, almost every economist from New Dealing Leon Keyserling to the Rockefeller Brothers Fund experts and Harvard's Sumner Slichter would like to see the U.S. grow faster. They agree that the old 3% target is outdated, and that the goal should be 5% a year from...