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...Said Beardsley Ruml, the famed expert on taxes, merchandising and public psychology: "I have heard people say that The Bomb bores them. I feel certain that it is not The Bomb that bores them, but what is said about The Bomb...
...world's biggest department store chains last week promoted one of the world's biggest and best idea men. Into the board chairmanship of Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co., Inc., went ebullient, 240-lb. Beardsley Ruml, father of the pay-as-you-go income tax, the Ruml-Sonne tax plan, etc., and longtime Macy treasurer...
...esthetic followers of "art for art's sake," Henley's boisterous, often crude vitality seemed both stupid and frightening. Esthete Aubrey Beardsley was so terrified by his first glimpse of the "pirate" that he turned and ran for his life. Arch-esthete Oscar Wilde was made of sterner stuff. In a scathing review of Henley's hospital poems (whose occasional beauties, said Oscar, were "very refreshing [bits] of affectation in a volume where there is so much that is natural"), he opened a running fight with Henley that lasted nearly 20 years. The fight ended indecisively...
Many of the recommendations, as the committee was well aware, are not new. But where the committee parted company with other planners, notably Beardsley Ruml, was in insisting on a budget balanced every year rather than over the business cycle. Its chief argument was that deficit spending is a "narcotic" which, once used, is a threat of progressive inflation...
...Bureau of Labor Statistics, shows how in general the views of such laborites as Clinton S. Golden (United Steelworkers), Marion H. Hedges (Electrical Workers), James Carey (C.I.O.), David Kaplan (Teamsters), George Meany (A.F. of L.), Walter Reuther (Automobile Workers), et al., compare with those of such managers as Beardsley Ruml, H. Christian Sonhe, Charles E. Wilson...