Word: viner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin Roosevelt's hands the means of carrying it out in the name of preparedness. Gone was the Administration's peacetime notion of self-liquidating projects. Peace itself had been liquidated. Last week even Henry Morgenthau, who opposed public works spending, rehired Chicago's learned Jacob Viner, Princeton's Winfield William Riefler, No. 1 & 2 Treasury anti-spending brain trusters, and Princeton's Walter W. Stewart, to advise him how to spend for preparedness in the U. S.'s greatest crisis...
...Economics, thence to graduate work at Harvard. Duly Ph.D.'d, he taught Harvard boys from 1927 to 1934 that the purpose of business is profit. In 1934, Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr.'s then economic soothsayer (and still his privy counselor), conservative Chicago Professor Jacob (Balanced Budget) Viner, induced Currie to leave Harvard, made him his assistant. Later that year, Chairman Marriner Stoddard (Unbalanced Budget) Eccles of the Federal Reserve Board spotted Currie for his technical qualifications, made him Assistant Director of Research and Statistics and personal adviser...
...Stern Nancy McKelvie, Mt. Lebanon, Pa.Bayard C. Stone Jeanne Sipley, Elkins Park, Pa.John E. Tully Mary Grist, West RoxburyRichard N. Thomas Elinor Bennett, FalmouthCharles Thurlow III Constance Guitner, Columbus, OhioLeo W. Tobin Melva Whittemore, BostonLester H. Tobin Sylvia Goldsmith, Bridgeport, Conn.Philip W. Trumbull Peggy Seaver, New Bedford, Conn.Arthur W. Viner Jean Freeman, Winnetka, Ill.Jacob A. Walker Marion Baird, Montclair, N. J.Edward C. Weren Patricia Drew, West Roxbury, Mass.Donald C. Wetmore Virginia Clapp, CambridgeJohn R. White Nancy Kelly, New YorkRoyal G. Whiting Priscilla Crocker, BrooklineDavid B. Williams Virginia Floyd, MiltonLeonard W. Williams Alice Pinkham, BrooklineGrafton L. Wilson Charlotte Donald, Barnstead...
...Cadiz, Ohio (pop., 2,597). Reason: it "has had more citizens of wide renown than any other community under ten thousand population." Some famed Cadizians: Critic Percy Hammond, Cinemactor Clark Gable, Robert P., Charles S. and Thomas A. Scott, inventors of ''the peach parer, the pea viner and the pea podder...
...three steps back will cost an estimated $180,000,000 a year. Reason: In 20 months the army of Federal employes has been enormously increased by the New Deal. ¶ One day last week a distinguished gathering met in the President's office. There was Secretary Morgenthau, Jacob Viner, his special assistant, Acting Federal Reserve Board Governor Thomas and the Reserve Board's chief economist, Emanuel Alexander Goldenweiser. They were on hand to watch the President receive a distinguished oldtimer. Robert Latham Owen, 78, onetime Indian Agent for the Five Civilized Tribes, founded the First National Bank of Muskogee, Okla...