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Concentrated wealth on increase. Washington D.C. Concentration of wealth in the control of a few corporations has increased since 1931. Dr. Charles A. Beard, (right) told the Senate Judiciary subcommittee today. Dr. Beard, noted political scientist and economist, was testifying in defense of the O'Mahoney Corporation Licensing Bill, which, if passed, will require corporations dealing in interstate commerce to comply with specified standards to aqcuire a federal license. Senator Joseph O'Mahoney, author of the bill and Chairman of the Committee, is on the left

Concentrated wealth on increase. Washington D.C. Concentration of weal...

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Nelson Gaskill, Economist and Lawyer, Wash., D.C.

Nelson Gaskill, Economist and Lawyer, Wash., D.C.

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Tea and tomato juice cause marketing headache, consumers expert tells committee. Washington, D.C., May 11. Dr. Ruth W. Ayers, New York economist and formerly on the staff of the Consumers' Advisory Board of the defunct NRA, brought in three packages of tea and 21 cans of tomato juice to show the temporary economic committee today, and told members that deceptive sizes of cans and packages and lack of quality gradings cause housewives a good deal of shopping headache. She said that she bought all the food at retail stores yesterday, found 11 different brands and 17 sizes of tomato juice cans, with no way to determine quality except to try them all. Asking for 1 quarter lb. tea packages, she was given packages containing 1-2 oz. less than she had asked for. Even though the package was marked as to net weight. She pointed this out as being 'misleading,' even though the price may be adjusted to fit the eight

Tea and tomato juice cause marketing headache, consumers expert tells ...

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Former NRA Economist sees President, Washington, D.C., Aug. 10. Alexander Sachs, former Blue Eagle Economist at the White House today after a long conference with President Roosevelt. He declined to reveal the subject of their talk

Former NRA Economist sees President, Washington, D.C., Aug. 10. Alexan...

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Chinese economist at White House. Washington, D.C., Oct. 12. Visitors at the White House today were the Chinese ambassador Chenting Wang, left, and Dr. Hi-Shih, noted economist of the Chinese government who talked with the president today on affairs of China

Chinese economist at White House. Washington, D.C., Oct. 12. Visitors ...

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Miss Hesterly, FSA (Farm Security Administration) home economist, following Adkins family, FSA rural rehabilitation clients, into their house to help make out their home and farm plans. Coffee County, Alabama

Miss Hesterly, FSA (Farm Security Administration) home economist, foll...

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Appear before house rivers and harbors committee. Washington, D.C., Nov. 23. Stuart Chase, (left) New York economist, and L.C. Sabine, of Cleveland, Vice-President of the Lake Carriers Association, were the first witnesses called today as the House Rivers and Harbors Committee began hearings on a bill to create seven Regional Planning Authorities. Chase told the committee "that free competition no longer is operating over a broad part of the economic front." He predicted further dislocation of man and his natural resources unless there is planned economics and conservation. 11/23/37

Appear before house rivers and harbors committee. Washington, D.C., No...

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Violet Davenport and Almary Kelly canning squash during a canning demonstration give by home economist Rachel D. Moore at La Delta Project. Thomastown, Louisiana

Violet Davenport and Almary Kelly canning squash during a canning demo...

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FSA (Farm Security Administration) supervisors and home management specialists and the county agent and home economist attending the county land use planning committee meeting

FSA (Farm Security Administration) supervisors and home management spe...

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Wartime food demonstration. Demonstrating how to make a butterless, sugarless cake, home economist, Ida Lansden combines substitute ingredients before an interested group of Virginia housewives. Small groups like this are meeting daily throughout America to learn wartime ways to buy and cook, under supervision of competent nutritionists

Wartime food demonstration. Demonstrating how to make a butterless, su...

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[Heinrich Wilhelm Dahlen, German economist, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front] / L.W. Kurtz, Wiesbaden.

[Heinrich Wilhelm Dahlen, German economist, head-and-shoulders portrai...

No. 40,691. Signed on verso: H.W. Dahlen, Germany. Reference copy in BIOG FILE. In 1894, John Boyd Thacher requested portraits for a collection about judges and commissioners who served at the 1893 World's Col... More

Minnie Lewis, president of home demonstration club, with home economist Rachel D. Moore, showing and explaining weaving samples which they might be able to make on the project. La Delta, Thomastown, Louisiana

Minnie Lewis, president of home demonstration club, with home economis...

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Violet Davenport and Almary Kelly canning squash during a canning demonstration given by home economist Rachel D. Moore at La Delta Project. Thomastown, Louisiana

Violet Davenport and Almary Kelly canning squash during a canning demo...

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Murray M. Stewart. Economist, Dept. of Agrig.

Murray M. Stewart. Economist, Dept. of Agrig.

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Adam Smith, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Adam Smith, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Portrait, head and shoulders, facing right. Stipple engraving by MacKenzie. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions.

Washington, D.C., Dec. 3. Dr. Willard Thorp, Dun and Bradstreet Economist now with the Commerce Department, pictured as he listened to testimony before the Monopoly Committee today. He is a member of the Committee

Washington, D.C., Dec. 3. Dr. Willard Thorp, Dun and Bradstreet Econom...

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Nelson Gaskill, Economist and Lawyer, Wash., D.C.

Nelson Gaskill, Economist and Lawyer, Wash., D.C.

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Advisory Council on social security issues. Washington, D.C., Oct. 21. Important changes in the Government's vast social security program received consideration today by two groups of officials and laymen. The advisory counsel, created at request of a Senate Committee, heard reports from experts who have surveyed the possible extension of old age benefits to agricultural workers, domestic servants and employees of religious and charitable institutions, snapped while attending the meeting were left to right: T.L. Norton, economist professor at the University of Buffalo, N.A.H. Mowbrey, University of Calif. and George E. Biggers, Member of the Social Security Board, 10/21/38

Advisory Council on social security issues. Washington, D.C., Oct. 21....

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Ben W. Lewis, chief economist, Consumer Division, National Office for Price Administration (OPA). Former association: Professor of Economics, Oberlin College; chief economist, Consumers Counsel Division, U.S. Department of Interior

Ben W. Lewis, chief economist, Consumer Division, National Office for ...

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Bob Aden with one of his teachers, Dr. Le Rossignol, an economist. University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Bob Aden with one of his teachers, Dr. Le Rossignol, an economist. Uni...

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Labor statistician. Washington, D.C., April 27. A new informal picture of A. Ford Hinrichs, Chief Economist of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor. He is also acting in an advisory capacity to Temporary National Economic Committee

Labor statistician. Washington, D.C., April 27. A new informal picture...

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Involuntary unemployment dangerous to public health. U.S. Surgeon General. Washington, D.C., March 16. Appearing before the Senate Unemployment and Relief Committee today, U.S. Surgeon General Thomas Parran declared that involuntary unemployment "breeds pathological political philosophies, subversive to our present democratic institutions". Speaking as a doctor and not as an economist, Dr. Parran urged that employment be provided for all who are willing and able to work. Idle hands are dangerous to public health, Dr. Parran indicated in his statement, 3/16/38

Involuntary unemployment dangerous to public health. U.S. Surgeon Gene...

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A deputation from the far eastern Republic of Chita, formerly a part of Russia, who are in Washington to secure the voice of the arms conference in demanding that Japan withdraw her troops from Siberia. Reading from left to right the members of the deputation are: Mme. L. Skvirsky, B.E. Skvirsky, former Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Alexander A. Yazikoff, Head of the Deputation and Adviser on economic matters for the republic, P.K. Karavoeff, Economist and Editor, and Gustave J. Farman, 12/6/21

A deputation from the far eastern Republic of Chita, formerly a part o...

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Nelson Gaskill, Economist and Lawyer, Wash., D.C.

Nelson Gaskill, Economist and Lawyer, Wash., D.C.

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Pearl Cooper, secretary of home demonstration club, reading the report of the previous meeting to the group. Home economist Rachel D. Moore is seated in the background. La Delta Project, Thomastown, Louisiana

Pearl Cooper, secretary of home demonstration club, reading the report...

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Ben W. Lewis, chief economist, Consumer Division, Office for Price Administration (OPA). Former association: Professor of Economics, Oberlin College; chief economist, Consumer Counsel Division, U.S. Department of Interior

Ben W. Lewis, chief economist, Consumer Division, Office for Price Adm...

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Prof Irving Fisher, noted economist / photo. by Bain News Service, New York.

Prof Irving Fisher, noted economist / photo. by Bain News Service, New...

Full-length portrait, standing, facing slightly right. George Grantham Bain Collection.

Bob Aden with one of his teachers, Dr. Le Rossignol, an economist. University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Bob Aden with one of his teachers, Dr. Le Rossignol, an economist. Uni...

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UAWU leaders urge President to appropriate $130,000,000 for Michigan relief. Washington, D.C., Feb. 1. Led by Homer Martin, President, representatives of the United Automobile Workers Union called at the White House today and urged President Roosevelt to appropriate $130,000,000 for Michigan relief to avoid "mass starvation and mass misery". They also left with the President their recommendations and a statement on employment, unemployment and average wage of workers in the auto industry. Left to right: Richard T. Frankensteen, Vice President; Homer Martin, President; William Munger, Research Director; and W. Jed Louck, Economist

UAWU leaders urge President to appropriate $130,000,000 for Michigan r...

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Mr. and Mrs. Watkins, FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrowers, discussing record book with project home economist, Coffee County, Alabama

Mr. and Mrs. Watkins, FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrowers, di...

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Wartime food demonstration. A new and important home front activity, the wartime food demonstration is rapidly becoming a nation-wide institution. Wives of war workers in Alexandria, Virginia meet weekly to hear about best ways of ration-point spending, food conservation, etc., under the leadership of Ida Lansden, home economist

Wartime food demonstration. A new and important home front activity, t...

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... Simon Newcomb; astonomer, mathematician, economist; 1835-1909. [n. p., n. d.].

... Simon Newcomb; astonomer, mathematician, economist; 1835-1909. [n....

At head of title: Respectfully referred to the Electors of the Hall of Fame.; 1. Newcomb, Simon, 1835-1909.; On p. [8]: Gift Anita Newcomb McGee, 1935. Page Order: Multipage Available also through the Library ... More

... Simon Newcomb; astonomer, mathematician, economist; 1835-1909. [n. p., n. d.].

... Simon Newcomb; astonomer, mathematician, economist; 1835-1909. [n....

At head of title: Respectfully referred to the Electors of the Hall of Fame.; 1. Newcomb, Simon, 1835-1909.; On p. [8]: Gift Anita Newcomb McGee, 1935. Page Order: Multipage Available also through the Library ... More

Sir: When I undertook the editorship of the Political Economist, it was in the fond expectation that there would be no difficulty in procuring a sufficient number of subscribers to pay the mere expense of printing and paper ... [Signed] Mathew C

Sir: When I undertook the editorship of the Political Economist, it wa...

Political economist.; Imprint 2. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 152, Folder 21.

... Simon Newcomb; astonomer, mathematician, economist; 1835-1909. [n. p., n. d.].

... Simon Newcomb; astonomer, mathematician, economist; 1835-1909. [n....

At head of title: Respectfully referred to the Electors of the Hall of Fame.; 1. Newcomb, Simon, 1835-1909.; On p. [8]: Gift Anita Newcomb McGee, 1935. Page Order: Multipage Available also through the Library ... More

At Monopoly hearing. Washington, D.C., Dec. 1. Dr. Willard Thorp, left, Dun and Bradstreet Economist not with the Commerce Department. Leon Henderson, Secretary of the Joint Monopoly Committee, chat informally as both attended the opening hearing today. They will testify before the Committee tomorrow

At Monopoly hearing. Washington, D.C., Dec. 1. Dr. Willard Thorp, left...

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Monopoly Committee told huge corporations control American business. Washington, D.C., Dec. 2. Dr. Willard Thorp, Dun and Bradstreet Economist now with the Commerce Department, today by means of charts and graphs pictured to the Temporary National Economic Committee how American business is one of tightly concentrated power and assets in the hands of huge corporations. Thorp said about one fifth of the total business enterprises disappear each year at the rate of 1150 a day

Monopoly Committee told huge corporations control American business. W...

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SEAGER, HENRY ROGERS. ECONOMIST

SEAGER, HENRY ROGERS. ECONOMIST

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Sir: When I undertook the editorship of the Political Economist, it was in the fond expectation that there would be no difficulty in procuring a sufficient number of subscribers to pay the mere expense of printing and paper ... [Signed] Mathew C

Sir: When I undertook the editorship of the Political Economist, it wa...

Political economist.; Imprint 2. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 152, Folder 21.

... Simon Newcomb; astonomer, mathematician, economist; 1835-1909. [n. p., n. d.].

... Simon Newcomb; astonomer, mathematician, economist; 1835-1909. [n....

At head of title: Respectfully referred to the Electors of the Hall of Fame.; 1. Newcomb, Simon, 1835-1909.; On p. [8]: Gift Anita Newcomb McGee, 1935. Page Order: Multipage Available also through the Library ... More

Mrs. Lewis and children talking with home economist, Miss Maddox, on steps of their home. R.R. (Rural Rehabilitation) family. Coffee County, Alabama

Mrs. Lewis and children talking with home economist, Miss Maddox, on s...

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Wartime food demonstration. Using such substitutes as corn syrup and vegetable shortening, home economist, Ida Lansden shows a group of Alexandria, Virginia women how to bake the most succulent of sugarless, butterless cakes. This meeting is part of the wartime food demonstration program now underway throughout the country

Wartime food demonstration. Using such substitutes as corn syrup and v...

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Ben W. Lewis, Chief Economist, Consumer Division, National Defense Office for Price Administration. Former Association: Professor of Economics, Oberlin College; Chief Economist, Consumers Counsel Division, U.S. Department of Interior

Ben W. Lewis, Chief Economist, Consumer Division, National Defense Off...

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... Simon Newcomb; astonomer, mathematician, economist; 1835-1909. [n. p., n. d.].

... Simon Newcomb; astonomer, mathematician, economist; 1835-1909. [n....

At head of title: Respectfully referred to the Electors of the Hall of Fame.; 1. Newcomb, Simon, 1835-1909.; On p. [8]: Gift Anita Newcomb McGee, 1935. Page Order: Multipage Available also through the Library ... More

UAWU leaders urge President to appropriate $130,000,000 for Michigan relief. Washington, D.C., Feb. 1. Led by Homer Martin, President, representatives of the United Automobile Workers Union called at the White House today and urged President Roosevelt to appropriate $130,000,000 for Michigan relief to avoid "mass starvation and mass misery". They also left with the President their recommendations and a statement on employment, unemployment and average wage of workers in the auto industry. Left to right: Richard T. Frankensteen, Vice President; Homer Martin, President; William Munger, Research Director; and W. Jed Louck, Economist

UAWU leaders urge President to appropriate $130,000,000 for Michigan r...

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Home economist, Miss Maddox, discussing record book with Mr. And Mrs. Watkins. Coffee County, Alabama

Home economist, Miss Maddox, discussing record book with Mr. And Mrs. ...

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[An economist of life]. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

[An economist of life]. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

"Political economy. Uncle Abra'm (reading): De brack murdrer ob Jer'miah Johnsing pays de oxtreme pendlety of de law. Now, dat's w'at I nebber could ouderstan' no'how. Why d'ey wait till de murderin's all dun f... More

Mrs. Lewis (R.R.-Rural Rehabilitation) talking to home economist, Miss Maddox, about her canned goods. Coffee County, Alabama

Mrs. Lewis (R.R.-Rural Rehabilitation) talking to home economist, Miss...

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Ben W. Lewis, chief economist, Consumer Division, National Office for Price Administration (OPA). Former association: Professor of Economics, Oberlin College; chief economist, Consumers Counsel Division, U.S. Department of Interior

Ben W. Lewis, chief economist, Consumer Division, National Office for ...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

... Simon Newcomb; astonomer, mathematician, economist; 1835-1909. [n. p., n. d.].

... Simon Newcomb; astonomer, mathematician, economist; 1835-1909. [n....

At head of title: Respectfully referred to the Electors of the Hall of Fame.; 1. Newcomb, Simon, 1835-1909.; On p. [8]: Gift Anita Newcomb McGee, 1935. Page Order: Multipage Available also through the Library ... More