Word: economist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fighting form. They could point to a united Western Europe whose people, American observers believed, were now better off than at any time since 1914 (excepting a few short years of peak prosperity). That was perhaps the West's biggest asset. Wrote London's clear-eyed Economist: "If the victory at Berlin proves anything, it is that the way to deal with the Russians is to make stiff terms and to stick to them inflexibly . . . Firmness is now justified up to the hilt...
...appointment follows the retirement last year of Dean Roscoe Pound, who had served as University Professor since 1935, when the four posts were first established. The other three chairs are currently held by Werner Jaeger, Classicist; Summer H. Slichter, economist; and Ivor A. Richards, humanist...
...depression in the U.S. is just around the corner. With a little imagination, Russian newspaper readers could already see the nefarious U.S. capitalists selling apples on drafty street corners. Among Russia's bigwigs only 70-year-old Eugene Varga, once considered the Soviet Union's foremost economist, did not join the chorus that was sending the U.S. to the wringer...
...Economist BorisM. Stanfield: "[Communists] must be purged or reformed not by decrees but by the overwhelming force of an awakened citizenry . . . Our faculties must determine after careful scrutiny and in specific cases whether individual candidates or teachers live up to the standards of intellectual freedom and integrity and act accordingly...
...replace punctilious career diplomat Jefferson Caffery, 63, as ambassador to France, Truman and Secretary of State Dean Acheson wanted a man who was enough of an economist to keep abreast of French financial crises, enough of a diplomat to help Western Europe toward unity. For this job Truman picked David K. E. Bruce, chief of the Economic Cooperation Administration mission in France, a lawyer and Virginia gentleman farmer. Bruce learned economics managing Mellon interests (his first wife was Andy Mellon's only daughter, Ailsa), later took a postgraduate course as Assistant Secretary of Commerce. To succeed Bruce...