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Simonsen was heard with respect. He is no inexperienced theorist, but a self-made man, a pretty rare article in Brazil. Child of a British-born Santos bank manager and a Brazilian-Scottish mother, he started out at 21 as a civil engineer on the old Southern Brazil Railway. At 58 he is one of the wealthiest men in the country. He has been president or director of a dozen companies, now heads Ceramica São Caetano, the largest ceramic (tile, pipe) plant in South America, which employs 1,600 workers...
Died. Irving Fisher, 80, bearded Yale professor of political economy and prolific writer on economics; in Manhattan. A tireless theorist on such varied subjects as health, education, prohibition, and the mastication of food, he spent $100,000 (partly from his invention of the rotary filing system) campaigning to standardize the dollar and to force banks to keep a 100% cash balance for all funds liable to transfer by check...
Expropriation of the expropriators according to the Marxian formula for the last lays of capitalism has already come about declared Joseph A. Schumpeter, professor of Economics, in debate last night with Paul M. Sweezy, noted theorist on socialism...
...three speakers, all of whom have studied in China, are expected to present varying views on the problems which confront the oriental country. Professor Pound, outstanding legal theorist, will outline the development. Lindsay, son of Lord Lindsay, English political scientist, will describe the activities of the Chinese Communists...
Representing varying views on the situation in the Far East, the three speakers will discuss the separate parts of the overall issue which each studies while in China. Professor Pound, outstanding legal theorist, is to outline the development of a system of Chinese law, a project he has recently completed. Lindsay, son of Lord Lindsay, English political scientist, will describe the activities of the Chinese Communists during the war. The visiting lecturer spent two years with the Red forces during the far-cast conflict...