Word: warren
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Teacher from Cornell. George Frederick Warren, 59, Professor of Farm Management and Agricultural Economics at the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell, is an economist close to the soil. As a boy he herded sheep on his native farm in Clay County, Neb. After his degree from the University of Nebraska and postgraduate study at Cornell he settled down in Ithaca in 1906 as an assistant professor in the Agricultural College and as operator of his own 500-acre farm close by. There he raised six children, cash crops and a large herd of Holstein cows. Scornful...
...when Franklin Roosevelt was elected Governor of New York he named Henry Morgenthau Jr. to head a State Agricultural commission. Professor Warren was appointed a member of his one-time pupil's commission. Later Mr. Morgenthau headed the State Conservation Commission, and Professor Warren, again a member, surveyed the marginal and submarginal lands of the State, made recommendations on which Governor Roosevelt based his reforestation program. Thus the team of Morgenthau & Warren began to work together and Franklin Roosevelt to rely on them...
Meantime Dr. Warren was working on his gold theory. Early last spring he and Professor Pearson issued a book, Prices (which, revised and brought up to date, had sold 6,000 copies to last week), to prove his point that, as price-makers, Supply & Demand are not twins but quadruplets; that the price of a commodity is determined by the Supply & Demand for it along with the Supply & Demand for gold. Since to raise prices means to reduce the value of the dollar, Dr. Warren demanded to know whether trying to reduce the value of the dollar and still maintaining...
Committee for the Nation. While Dr. Warren was still sticking to his academic last, a group of businessmen got busy to find a remedy for Depression. James H. Rand Jr., head of Remington Rand, Lessing Rosenwald and General Wood of Sears Roebuck, Frank A. Vanderlip, Automan Errett Lobban Cord and many another formed the "Committee for the Nation," became uninvited disciples of Professor Warren, went forth to preach his doctrine to businessmen and politicians. Last week Committeemen for the Nation had almost a free run of the White House office where their frequent visits left their impress upon the presidential...
President Roosevelt was hardly back in Washington before Professor Warren, along with Professor Rogers of Yale who holds similar although not identical monetary beliefs, was named unofficial adviser to the Administration. Since then Adviser Warren has worked long hours in the office he shares with Professor Rogers on the ground floor of the huge Commerce Building. The two professors have a double desk (always clear of papers) and a stenographer. Dr. Warren keeps no files, carries all his papers in a brief case with which he slips in and out of the side entrance of the White House. Sometimes...