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...American Federation of Labor, largely a national alliance of workers by crafts, is heir to the old-fashioned apprentice and guild systems. Many a U. S. Labor theorist for many a year has advanced the idea that the workingman's cause would be more effective if workers organized by industries, regardless of their craft affiliations. Thus, instead of loom mechanics belonging to the National Machinists Union, along with machinists in the furniture, paper, bottling and publishing industries, they would belong to a textile workers union. Because of the failure of the oldtime Noble Order of the Knights of Labor...
Among the male guests was Robert Walter Bruere, a social theorist from Sneden's Landing, artistic colony up the Hudson from New York. He is chairman of the cotton textile code's advisory board. David Coyle is a theoretical writer on business & finance as well as a consulting engineer, graduate of Princeton and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He worked on the New York Life building, the Roerich Museum and built a home for himself at Bronxville, N. Y. with no heating arrangements on the second floor because Mr. Coyle believes that people should sleep in very cold rooms. Just...
...affected by the monocled, white-jacketed bureaucracy of the Foreign Office, but at the same time incapacitated by the climate of the country, barrister Schumpeter was forced by tropical fever to remove to London, where, in 1908, he published the first book which made his reputation as an economic theorist, "Der Wesen and der Hauptinhalt der Theoretischen Nationaloekonomic...
...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...
...affected by the monocled, white-jacketed bureaucracy of the Foreign Office, but at the same time incapacitated by the climate of the country, barrister Schumpeter was forced by tropical fever to remove to London, where, in 1908, he published the first book which made his reputation as an economic theorist, "Der Wesen and der Hauptinhalt der Theoretischen Nationaloekonomic...