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ARTICLES RELATED TO John Kenneth Galbraith | | | |  John Kenneth Galbraith: Encyclopedia II - John Kenneth Galbraith - LifeGalbraith was born in Iona Station, Ontario and was raised in Dutton. He earned his B.Sc degree from the Ontario Agricultural College (then affiliated with the University of Toronto, and now the University of Guelph) in 1931, and then received an M.Sc (1933) and Ph.D. (1934) from the University of California at Berkeley. [1]
During World War II, Galbraith was America's "price czar", charged with keeping inflation from crippling the war effort. He served as deputy head of the Office of Price Administration. At the end of the war, he wa ...
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| | | | John Kenneth Galbraith: Encyclopedia II - Arthur Schlesinger Jr. - Career
Arthur Schlesinger Jr. - Education.
1933 Phillips Exeter Academy
1938 Harvard University - Society of Fellows, 1939-1942
Arthur Schlesinger Jr. - War time service.
1942–1943 Office of War Information
1943–1945 Office of Strategic Services
Arthur Schlesinger Jr. - Educator.
1946-1961 professor of history at Harvard
Elected to The American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1961.
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| | | | John Kenneth Galbraith: Encyclopedia II - John Maynard Keynes - Biography
John Maynard Keynes - Personal and marital life.
John Maynard Keynes was the son of John Neville Keynes, an economics lecturer at Cambridge University, and Florence Ada Brown, a successful author and a social reformist. Standing at approximately 6' 6" (200 cm), Keynes was very tall even by today's standards. In the early part of his life he had homosexual relationships. He had a series of relationships with men during his university days, and a serious relationship with the Bloomsbury painter Duncan Grant from 19 ...
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| | | | John Kenneth Galbraith: Encyclopedia II - Arthur Schlesinger Jr. - Writings He won a Pulitzer Prize in history for his 1945 book The Age of Jackson.
His 1949 book The Vital Center is considered a landmark work of political analysis which made a case for the New Deal policies of Franklin D. Roosevelt, while harshly critical of both unregulated capitalism and of those liberals who advocated cooperation or sympathy with totalitarian ideologies such as communism.
His 1986 book The Cycles of American History was an early work on the relationship of cyclical generations of politics in the United States, and influenced Will ...
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| | | | John Kenneth Galbraith: Encyclopedia II - Wall Street Crash of 1929 - Timeline of the Crash
Wall Street Crash of 1929 - September.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average ("the DJIA" or "the Dow") reached a high of 381.17 on September 3, 1929.
"In September, the tariff bill reached the Senate, the same month stock prices peaked." [2]
The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act eventually "imposed an effective tax rate of 60% on more than 3,200 products and materials imported into the US. Tariff rates had quadrupled." See also:Wall Street Crash of 1929, Wall Street Crash of 1929 - Timeline of the Crash, Wall Street Crash of 1929 - September, Wall Street Crash of 1929 - October, Wall Street Crash of 1929 - What caused the Crash?, Wall Street Crash of 1929 - Boom-bust theory, Wall Street Crash of 1929 - Explanation from supply-side economic theory, Wall Street Crash of 1929 - Official investigation of the Crash, Wall Street Crash of 1929 - Footnotes, Wall Street Crash of 1929 - Other artices, Wall Street Crash of 1929 - Further reading, Wall Street Crash of 1929 - External links Read more here: » Wall Street Crash of 1929: Encyclopedia II - Wall Street Crash of 1929 - Timeline of the Crash |
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| | | | John Kenneth Galbraith: Encyclopedia II - Louis Mountbatten 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma - Career Mountbatten served in the Royal Navy during the First World War. He accompanied Edward, Prince of Wales on a 1922 royal tour of India (where he met Edwina Ashley) and consolidated a firm friendship with the Prince which cooled substantially during the Abdication Crisis of 1936, when Mountbatten's loyalties as between the wider Royal Family and the throne, on the one hand, and the then-King, on the other, were tested, with Mountbatten coming down firmly on the side of Prince Albert who was to assume the throne in his brother's place. In the S ...
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| | | | John Kenneth Galbraith: Encyclopedia II - Lang Hancock - Prized love Hope Hancock died in 1983, at the age of 66. She had been married to Lang for 35 years. In the same year, Rose Lacson (now Porteous) arrived in Australia from the Philippines on a three-month working visa. With the assistance of Hope's daughter Gina Rinehart, Porteous began working as a maid for the newly-widowed Hancock.[13]
Lang Hancock and Porteous became romantically involved over the course of Porteous's employment, and were wed on 1985-07-06, in Sydney. The marriage marked the third ti ...
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