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...Economist Keezer's associates on the board was William Trufant Foster, first president of Reed College. When Reed was founded in 1911 by the widow of a steamboat tycoon as a cultural centre for the Northwest, William T. Foster had been called to get it going. He built a surprisingly intellectual college with no intercollegiate athletics, no fraternities, complete student self-government. In 1920 President Foster resigned* and thereafter Reed coasted along under competent but not always vigorous leadership. After Messrs. Foster & Keezer had been working on the Consumers' Board for six months, Mr. Foster...
Carleton Beals contributes a detailed criticism of the Montevideo conference, happily free of the old saws and penetrating on the real extent of the concept of good will. There is a salve, in story form, on the installment buying system by William Trufant Foster; and a very, very conventional restatement of the silver argument, this time called "Honest Inflation," by one Edward Tuck. The most valuable contribution to Scribners comes from V. F. Calverton. Mr. Calverton is concerned with a sane revaluation of Thomas Paine, and he shows that among the many ironies of Paine's life, the most bitter...
...pages of half-tones tipped in. Typical of the latter was "The Forgotten Man," an abject figure asleep in a cheap doorway. Contributors to the first issue included such famed economists as John Maynard Keynes ("A New Monetary Policy for England"), Sir Josiah Stamp ("Our Price Level Problem"), William Trufant Foster ("Is Fiat Money Any Worse than Fiat Poverty?"). Among a group who discussed Mr. Foster's article was gloomy Richard Waldo, president of McClure Newspaper Syndicate. Books reviewed included Wages and the Road Ahead by General Motors' James David Mooney, The Dow Theory by Robert Rhea...
...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...