Word: tucker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...piper missed a melodic trick, or if he allowed his reed to "choke" (stop vibrating for lack of air), he was docked a point or two by the judges. Last week's winners: stocky James Bremner of Kearny, Pipe-Major John MacKenzie of Brooklyn, Piper Ed mund Tucker of Manhattan...
Piqued by the saying that there was increased concentration of wealth, Dr. Rufus Stickney Tucker, rumbly-voiced associate economist for General Motors, year ago began studying The Distribution of Income among Income Taxpayers in the U. S., 1863-1935. His chief conclusions, which he presents in a mass of charts: There is a great concentration of wealth, but it is far less than it once was, for "persons with incomes equivalent in purchasing power to between 4,000 and 10,000 1929 dollars have become a much larger proportion of the population since 1916, and those with incomes equivalent...
...Tucker's "study of real wages of workingmen" convinced him that the most rapid improvement in their purchasing power occurred from 1864 to 1873, 1880 to 1892, 1922 to 1929. He found that the first and third periods were also marked by the greatest concentration of wealth. This led him to postulate that concentration of wealth derived from legitimate business profits is a concomitant of general prosperity, while concentration from speculation (as in 1929) or war profits (as in 1863-65) is not. His inference: "Any measures that may be taken to diminish the concentration of wealth and income...
...choice to set off the Century's, maiden jaunt was blonde, beautiful Model Virginia judd, who wore a frock of Twentieth Century grey. Public relations counsel for Pennsylvania was Ivy Lee, Inc., trained in less frivolous accounts like the Rockefeller interests. Counsel Lee countered with solidity: Sophie Tucker...
Shot Put (12 Pound)--Won by C. D. Dyer, 3rd '39 (Lowell) 45 ft., 10 1/2 in.; second--R. C. Downes '38 (Winthrop) 44 rt., 9 in.; third--J. G. Tucker '40 (Leverett) 44 ft., 6 1/2 in.; fourth--B. G. Ferris '40 (Winthrop) 44 ft., 2 5/3 in.; fifth--W. T. Ray '39 (Eliot...