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...just about licked. Noting declines in industrial expansion rates and stock-market prices in the U.S., Sweden's Per Jacobsson, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, told the World Bank-IMF conference that the U.S. "has arrested its inflation" (see BUSINESS). And Harvard Economics Professor Sumner H. Slichter, a "limited inflationist," noted critically that in putting "stability ahead of growth," the Eisenhower Administration had made "the most important economic decision since the Roosevelt Administration decided to aid workers in bargaining with employers...
...like irresponsible labor leaders," he cried before the St. Louis Advertising Club last year. "Within the Teamsters international union . . . we have no room for dishonest people." As a guest lecturer at Harvard's Graduate School of Public Administration last year, he lectured Economist Sumner Slichter's class on the economics of collective bargaining...
...that the cost of doing this might be greater than the price of bearing inflation for a while, since the new inflation is a natural result of the economy's continuing prosperity. They feel that severe cures would hurt even more than the malady itself. Says Harvard Economist Sumner Slichter, who predicts a controlled inflation of 2% to 3% annually for the next decade: "In this imperfect world we are often compelled to choose between evils, and if the choice is between enough unemployment to halt the rise in labor costs, direct controls of wages and prices, and creeping...
...American War mementos include a rapid-firing cannon from the cruiser Harvard which now rests in the basement guarding General Education A offices. Carved panels on one wall of the dining room mark a project known as the Harvard Hall of Fame. Soon after Oliver Wendell Holmes and Charles Sumner had achieved their niches, alumni surrendered the project as being too expensive...
...drive to encourage savings has been attacked by Sumner H. Slichter, Lamont University Professor...