Word: economist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Economist Ayres drew deductions, cautiously: "The fact that all bull markets ... in the past 50 years have lasted only about two years does not necessarily indicate that the end ... is to be expected in the immediate future. It is, however, decidedly interesting to note that this present market has now completed its second year of upward movement...
Able theorizer Col. Leonard Porter Ayres of Cleveland, stubbornest bear, again prophesied a market break. Last summer (TIME, July 23) Economist Ayres saw the stockmarket as "a great national bet against the continuation of high interest rates, and since the Federal Reserve authorities can hardly reverse their policies . . . the decision will probably be against the stockmarket with ... a serious decline in stock prices before the end of the year." With only six weeks of the year left, Economist Ayres last week failed to mention the Federal Reserve, was far less emphatic, based his bearish innuendoes on precedent. He noted...
...usually an expert with creative theories of his own, or enthusiasm for Hoover theories, besides technical knowledge. He is likely to be an idealist with a social aim, rather than a practitioner of skilled self-interest. Typical Hoover men are George Barr Baker, publicist; Archibald Wilkinson Shaw, commercial economist; Dr. Vernon Lyman Kellogg, zoölogist. The latter, permanent Secretary of the National Research Council, may be taken as the ideal Hoover...
John Dewey's bust was fashioned by the able hands of Sculptor Jacob Epstein. Among those whose gift it was were Oliver Wendell Holmes, Clarence Darrow, Economist Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman, Sociologist Owen Reed Lovejoy, Educator-Scientist David Starr Jordan, Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise...
Among those whose last-minute declarations were for Governor Smith, was Professor John Dewey of Columbia University, economist, philosopher, outstanding U. S. student of pedagogy. Professor Dewey published his three reasons in The New Republic and followed them up by calling on the Nominee at the head of a college delegation that included Dean Christian Gauss of Princeton and representatives from 49 other colleges and universities...