Word: sweezey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Boston newshawks tried to goad him into saying something about the Walsh-Sweezey case, he declined, declaring that he didn't know anything about this case. "However," he mentioned, "I've observed a general tendency in universities that when a professor takes an interest in labor movements, trouble usually occurs...
...this particular case, it is understood that the Economics Department, because it feared the adverse publicity that might result, went ahead and recommended Walsh and Sweezey for the regular three year appointments. However, it is thought that the Administration definitely opposed making a special case out of the two men merely because their views were known, and stepped in to request that the usual procedure, that of giving concluding appointments, be followed in this case as in all others...
...Fainsod, instructor in Government, Felix Frankfurter, Byrne Professor of Administrative Law, Richard V. Gilbert '23, instructor in Economics, Henry M. Hart, Jr. '26, assistant professor of Law, Arthur N. Holcombe '06, professor of Government, Edwin Mims, Jr., instructor in Government, Sumner H. Slichter, professor of Business Economics, Alan R. Sweezey '29, instructor of Economics, and John H. Williams, Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy...
...user and producer of newsprint eyed the ailing company's assets with interest. When the bankruptcy ax finally fell eight months later, officers began to appear from such sources as Britain's Bowater's Paper Mills Ltd., a syndicate headed by Montreal's Robert Oliver Sweezey, newsprint users like Lord Beaverbrook, Lord Rothermere and William Randolph Hearst. For three years outside interests proposed and counterproposed, stockholders and creditors wrangled among themselves and with outsiders. Most likely plan was offered in 1934 by Bowater's acting for a Beaverbrook. Bondholders were offered new bonds for principal...