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When in January the Seven Wise Men of the Economics Department contributed "The Economics of the Recovery Program" to Harvard's already well nourished reputation as a home for die-hard academicians schooled in the embalmed jingo of a dead era, it was not Professor Taussig nor Professors Carver nor Burbank nor any other of the great Civil War school, but a new-comer, Joseph Alois Schumpeter, J.U.D., ex-finance minister of Austria, internationally known economic theorist, and no fool, who showed his hand...
...North Whitehead, 72, one of the three "geniuses" whom Gertrude Stein has known (others: herself, Painter Pablo Picasso). Ill health made William Zebina Ripley, 66, railroad expert, retire last March but economics in 1932 acquired brilliant Josef Alois Schumpeter, onetime (1919) Finance Minister of Austria. Since 1882 Frank William Taussig, 74, tariff authority, has been one of Harvard's proudest possessions...
After his graduation in 1894, Professor Sprague studied for his M. A. and Ph.D. under Professor Taussig, and did not come to the Business School until 1908. Throughout his career he has been noted for his judgments on current economic trends; after the War, he led an attack on the Federal Reserve Board. During the War, he favored the plan of meeting government expenses through the proceeds of increased taxation rather than through borrowing...
...them had to be altered because of sternpost trouble. They were severely criticized by Admiral William Veazie Pratt, naval adviser at the 1930 London Conference, who called some of them "tin clad" because their gun turrets were not fully protected with steel plates. But Rear Admiral Joseph K. Taussig, assistant chief of operations, last week explained that the Chicago's turrets were armored and had helped prevent the Chicago's prow from being cut clean off. "Not even a battleship has armor where the Chicago was struck, and would have experienced a similar result," he declared...
...came into being in Philadelphia last week a new investigating agency sponsored by the American Foundation. It was called the Committee on Russian-American Relations and its membership included such potent figures as Morgan-Partner Thomas W. Lament, whose son Corliss is a near-Communist; Harvard Economist Frank W. Taussig; Lawyer Paul D. Cravath, a Russian recognitionist; President James D. Mooney of General Motors Export Co., whose trading field is the world at large; Dean Roscoe Pound of Harvard Law School, a liberal of the first water; Engineer Hugh L. Cooper who built the Dnieprostroy...