Word: economist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many an economist, condemning professional speculators, still supports the commodity exchanges. Most recent of important benedictions was the declaration of able Frank J. Cavanaugh of the National Bank of Commerce. Said...
Abbott Lawrence Lowell, economist, president of Harvard University, a millionaire, was chagrined last week. A Federal grand jury investigation revealed that swindlers had obtained $70,000 from him in farm loan frauds...
Exceedingly important in domestic life are reading lamps, hair mattresses, phonographs, canaries. Almost equally important are these same luxuries in the world of industry. For by the number of phonographs and canaries purchased by U. S. housewives, the vigilant economist may trace the trend of general prosperity...
...Cosmopolitan (Hearst) seem almost exclusively devoted to cosmetics. Every small town has its beauty specialist, its "parlors," where creams and lotions, pastes, lipsticks, rouges, powders are on sale. As an industry, cosmetics making has all the modern paraphernalia. It has its trade papers (Toilet Requisites, Toilet Goods Economist), its federal supervision (no health-destroying chemicals), its radio programs (Gimbel Bros. Station WGBS...
...Prohibition film matter was settled satisfactorily when the promoters of the film admitted their fault and agreed to make a correction. It was a film called Deliverance, a moral romance meant to advertise among Y. M. C. A. men the stirring statistics of Professor Irving Fisher, Yale economist and Dry propagandist. The script had called for a picture of Governor Smith signing a bill. The producer had clipped a newsreel "shot" of Governor Smith signing a tax-reduction bill and then implied by subtitles that the bill shown was the repealer to New York's Prohibition enforcement...