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Died. Annie Allegra Longfellow Thorp. 78, youngest and only surviving daughter of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; in "Craigie House," Cambridge, Mass...
...Joseph Hodges Choate Jr., 57, of Manhattan. His companions: Edward G. Lowry, special assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury, and Harris Willingham of the Department of Agriculture. Not present were: William Allen Tarver, chief counsel of the Department of Justice's defunct Prohibition unit, and Willard L. Thorp, director of the Commerce Department's Bureau of Foreign & Domestic Commerce. These five were the officers of FACA's control committee...
...President set up another potent governmental special bureau: the Executive Commercial Policy Committee. Purpose: to supervise negotiations of all commercial treaties, such as are now anticipated between the U. S. and Sweden, Portugal, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Russia. Personnel: Walter J. Cummings (Treasury); Assistant Secretary Dickinson and Dr. Willard Thorp (Commerce); Assistant Secretary Tugwell (Agriculture); General William I. Westervelt (AAA); Oscar B. Ryder (NRA); Commissioners O'Brien and Page (Tariff Commission). Chairman pro tempore is Undersecretary of State Philipps...
...Willard Thorp, 34, is the twenty-third college professor President Roosevelt has called to Washington as part of his ''Brain Trust.'' The new bureau chief was born in Oswego, N. Y., educated in Duluth. Amherst graduated him in 1920. He took his master's degree at Michigan, his doctor's at Columbia. He worked for the National Bureau of Economic Research, which published his Business Annals. Other writings include The Integration of Industrial Operation and Economic Changes. In 1926 he returned to Amherst, has been teaching economics there ever since. Tall chubbily handsome...
Under Chief Thorp the bureau will become more of a Home Guard than a Foreign Legion. President Roosevelt's new instructions called not for quick export orders but for "emphasis on basic research applying particularly to problems such as the estimating of production and consumption, the growth of productive capacity, the expansion of industry in terms of equipment, markets and employment, machinery depreciation and obsolescence, the future of American foreign trade and a wide range of similar topics." Rather than rustling up export orders, Dr. Thorp's efforts were designed to give ''a better sense...