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...signs all point to the conclusion that the battleship boys are playing on current fears to puff out their chests like Aesop's frog who burst trying to look like a bull. Our navy is now adequate for defense, and even Admiral Taussig doesn't claim it should be anything else. Americans love newsreel shots of new battleships, but Ann Sheridan is just as photogenic and not nearly so expensive...
President Lowell is honorary chairman of the Boston Committee conducting the poll, and Arthur N. Holcombe '06, professor of Government; Frank W. Taussig '79, Henry Lee Professor of Economics, Emeritus; and Walter B. Cannon, George Higginson Professor of Physiology are members...
Delegates include: President Conant; Dean Hanford; Dean Landis of the Law School; Arthur N. Holcombe, Chairman of the Department of Government; Keyes D. Metcalf, director of the University Library; Heinrich Bruening, lecturer in Government and ex-chancellor of Germany; Walter B. Cannon, George Higginson Professor of Physiology; Frank W. Taussig, Henry Lee Professor of Economics emeritus; and Granville Hicks, counsellor in American History...
...When Tugwell left his $10,000-a-year job as Under Secretary of Agriculture in 1937, his good friend, Charles Taussig, head of American Molasses Co., offered him a job as executive vice president. He accepted, admitted he knew little about the business. When his good friend Mayor LaGuardia next year offered him the planning job, which suited his tastes and paid $15,000, he accepted with alacrity...
...realized that comparative judgment of men in different stages of development is impossible. Further, the extent to which a man would diversify the interests of a department must be considered. Lastly, since no university can live apart from society, it fits a department of economics to deal with what Taussig called "social applications or implications...