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Died. "General" Jacob Sechler Coxey, 97, eccentric businessman, sportsman and monetary theorist, whose stone quarries, racing stable, patent medicine, arsenic mines, ill-starred stabs at politics were all but eclipsed by the 1894 depression march on Washington of his "Commonweal of Christ" (known to posterity as "Coxey's Army"); after a stroke; in Massillon, Ohio. On Easter Sunday, 1894, seated in a phaeton drawn by his $40,000 thoroughbred pacer, well-heeled Employer Coxey and his unemployed tatterdemalions set out for the capital to pressure Congress into accepting his economic cureall: interest-free local bond issues for public works...
...rare survivor of a half-forgotten movement which flourished in the early '303. Technocracy was founded by Howard .Scott, an engineering theorist, on the principle that under the present price system the machine is destroying man's chance to earn a living. By "functional control" of production and distribution-including the substitution of energy certificates for money-the Technocrats still claim they can wangle a comfortable living for everybody...
...nowhere to be seen or heard was the top purgee, Secretary General Kyuichi Tokuda. Equally elusive were the usually vocal Ritsu Ito, ousted Communist theorist and spokesman, and Yoshio Shiga, leading party advocate of violent action, whose "tough" policy had brought on the MacArthur order. From shrewd, slippery Sanzo Nozaka, pre-purge chairman of the Japanese Politburo, came only ironic speculation. Said Nozaka: "Now that I have so much time on my hands ... I may try to become a movie critic. Or else, now that summer is here, perhaps I can start an ice candy [Japanese Popsicle] shop...
...Viereck,* Peter disowned his father's politics while still at Harvard, spent the war years as a sergeant with the Psychological Warfare Branch of the U.S. Army. Minus his flowing tie, 33-year-old Poet Peter becomes Peter Robert Edwin Viereck, Ph.D., a brilliant, right-of-center political theorist (Metapolitics; Conservatism Revisited) and associate professor of history at Mount Holyoke...
...great theorist himself, he is no advocate of uninterrupted theorizing, but believes that teachers and students should refresh themselves constantly in the practical aspects of music. Already in his course, he is forming a chorus which will start rehearsals for a concert of thirteenth and fourteenth century music in March...