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...following were news last week: Mustachioed, European-educated James Edward Taussig resigned unexpectedly from the presidency of Wabash Railroad and a subsidiary company to devote himself to personal affairs. For a time he will continue to advise; he remains a director. His resignation follows a move to acquire control of Wabash by Pennsylvania, which followed acquisition of Chicago 6 Alton, Wabash competitor, by B. & O. Presidency of Vabash will be added to the duties of William Henry Williams, board chairman of Wabash since...
Speaking before the first session of the annual meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs, and the St. Louis Chamber of Commerce at St. Louis, F. W. Taussig '79, Henry Lee Professor of Economics and W. B. Donham, Dean of the Business School, attacked present policies of the national government...
...Profesor Taussig advanced the idea that the United States could be prosperous whether employing a high or low tariff system. Dean Donham declared the government must either provide dole or jobs, with business powerless to help the present condition...
...Profesor Taussig said in part...
...popularity of Economics has been variously explained. Undoubtedly a number of Freshmen elect this field with the idea that Taussig and Pigou will guide them into the six-figure bank account. Yet at the opening meeting of Economics A a warning against this misconception is sounded, and is repeated frequently by instructors in the course; and the business school specifically states that it sees no distinction between the man grounded in the Classics and the concentrator in Economics...