Word: forums
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Harvard's best known economists, and a noted M. I. T. professor spoke in the Dunster House Forum last night on "The Economic Outlook of Defense," before a crowd of 200 people...
Seymour E. Hatris '20, associate professor of Economics, presided at the forum, intermittently summing up the views expressed by the speakers, and conducting a question period from the floor at the end of the speeches and comments...
...Deal Policies fared far less poorly than in the first FORTUNE Forum, when only 2% approved all Roosevelt measures, only 18.9% approved any at all. This time members were asked to evaluate individual reforms. Some results...
Probed further on price philosophy, FORTUNE'S Forum tossed a cautious but impressive bouquet to Trustbuster Thurman Arnold. His statement that "The first concern of every democracy is the maintenance of a free market" brought 58.7% agreement (27.7% in toto, 31% in part), with utility and railmen again lagging behind. Asked to make a choice between General Johnson's defunct NRA pro-price-fixing policy, and the Arnold anti-price-fixing program, the Forum gave Arnold the edge: NRA, 22%; Arnold, 33%; "depends," 45%. More striking were its views on particular prices. A clear majority (from...
...principle of at least six New Deal measures: the anti-trust drive (72.5%), Housing and Home Loan Acts (70.9%), Wages and Hours Act (68.9%), the Hull trade treaties (67.2%), PWA (55.8%) and the Wagner Act (51.2%). Yet 94.1% agreed that such measures were preventing recovery. Some reforms which the Forum had approved in principle were also high on its list of deterrents: Wagner Act (74.5%), taxation policies (66.8%), Wages and Hours Act (48.5%), anti-trust drive (40%). Outstanding for unpopularity were taxation policies: considered an important deterrent to recovery (66.8%), they were also voted "always bad" in principle...