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Some Veblenian titles, The Engineers and the Price System, The Theory of Business Enterprise, The Theory of the Leisure Class, will recall to the initiated that Thorstein Veblen was the mental sire of many a U.S. intellectual who grew up to be a technocrat. The initiated will remember, too, that Veblen has been praised and damned as the prophet of the New Deal. His influence on Rexford Guy Tugwell, George Soule, Stuart Chase and other New Deal economists has been profound. Anti-New Dealer Edgar M. Queeny (The Spirit of Enterprise), president of the Monsanto Chemical Co., has even gone...
...elections; bounding over the cane (see cut) by means of which he proved to Antwerp voters that at 58 he is still a man of no mean physical prowess. Councilman Frenssen was considered a harmless crank, hipped on the passe tenets of U. S. technocracy, until he and his "Technocrat Party" won 21,000 votes, enough to entitle them to six seats in the Antwerp municipal council. Since new councilmen will not take their seats until after January 1, perplexed Antwerp had a breathing spell last week. But bearded Leo Frenssen and his Technocrats presented an acute problem because...
During his recent fantastic but successful electioneering campaign, self-styled Technocrat Frenssen continued his latest method of making his living-peddling coffee from a tricycle. Last week he was still peddling coffee, displayed on his tricycle a sign reading: "Electors, I thank you from the bottom of my heart...
...back it once more came under critical discussion. First speaker was Senator Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma. No. i Inflationist of Congress. Next House Speaker Rainey flayed Hard Moneyman Sprague for flouncing out of Washington as a presidential ad- viser. Frank Arthur Vanderlip, ex-banker and onetime enthusiast for Technocrat Howard Scott, burbled his delight at the President's monetary experiment. To answer them up rose the fourth and last speaker, James Paul Warburg. 37-year-old vice chairman of the Bank of The Manhattan Co., himself no monetary conservative, who from March 4 to midsummer stood closest...
Philosophized Howard Scott the Technocrat : "It's just like every new movement. There are dissensions...