Word: trufant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...William Trufant Foster, Boston pedagog-economist, director of the Pollak Foundation for Economic Research, and Waddell Catchings, Manhattan manufacturer-financier (shoes, collars, cans, rubber, motors, fruit, cereals, dairy produce, drugs, magazines, cinema), collaborated lately on a book* in which they suggested that all U. S. markets would be steadied if the governmental agencies of the U. S.-federal, state, municipal-would map out and authorize large programs of public work which will be needed eventually though not immediately. Let these programs then be held in abeyance, said the collaborators, until such time as labor and fiscal indices show or predict...
Students of the Business School and any others interested in Economics have been offered a prize of five thousand dollars, to be given by the Pollak Foundation for Economic Research for the best adverse criticism of a book "Profits," by William Trufant Foster '01 and Waddill Catchings...
Roughly, this was what happened to Dr. William Trufant Foster, about ten years ago, when he was asked to start a college at Portland, Oregon. Reed College is the result,--an attractive little institution looking down on Portland and the Willamette River from one of the outlying hills...