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College Station, Texas
Tuesday, December 10, IS®
SCONA
Presents
U.S. Monetary & Fiscal Policy
/
A Taxpayer's View
Distinguished Keynote Speakers
Wednesday, December 11, 2 p.m. Wednesday, December 11, 8 p.m. Thursday, December 12, 8 p.m. Friday, December 13, 8 p.m.
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Saturday, December 14,1 p.in.
MB. EDWARD P. NEILAN,
President, U. S. Chamber
of Commerce
MB. HERBERT J. MILLER,
Former Executive Director,
The Tax Foundation
Mr. Neilan was born in Mason
County, Michigan. He received a B.A.
in 1928 from Rice Institute and at
tended the South Texas School of Law
for two years. He earned the A.B.A.
from the Greduate School of Banking
at Rutgers University in 1987. He
worked in investment department of
the Houston Bank and Trust Co. from
1928 until 1933 when he moved to the
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Texas.
After three years he went to the Fed
eral Reserve Bank of New York City
as a field examiner and a year later
served in the same capacity at Federal
Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. He
joined the Bank of Delaware in Wil
mington in 1940 as associate trust of
ficer. He has held the posts of vice
president, executive vice president,
director, and is currently president and
chairman of the board of that institu
tion.
Mr. Miller founded the Minneapolis
Taxpayers’ Association in 1924 and
two years later, organized a similar
organization for Minnesota. In 1939,
he was named executive secretary of
that state’s Resources Commission and
served as vice chairman of the Min
nesota Defense Council and chairman
of its division on industrial and natural
resources. From 1924 until 1948 Mr.
Miller headed research and field oper
ations for the Citizens’ National Com
mittee in Washington, D. C., which
supplied information to 37 state tax
payer organizations. Mr. Miller is now
federal affairs counselor of the Tax
Foundation, having retired in 1960 as
executive director, a position he had
held since 1949.
MR. PHILLIP S. HUGHES, Ass t
Director for Legislative Ref-
ference, Bureau of the Budg
et
Mr. Hughes was born in Chicago,
111. and received a B.A. from the Uni
versity of Washington in 1938. He
served in the U.S. Navy during World
War II and became chief of the re
search division of the Veterans’ Ad
ministration Office in Seattle in 1946.
He joined the Bureau of the Budget
in 1949 as an examiner handling non
medical programs. In 1953 he became
assistant chief of the Labor and Wel
fare Division in charge of social secu
rity programs. He was named assist
ant director for legislative reference
in 1958 after serving as deputy chief
of that division for two and one-half
years.
DR. C. LOWELL HARRISS,
Professor of Economics,
Columbia University
Dr. Harriss attended public schools
in Nebraska, received a B.A. summa
cum laude from Harvard and did grad
uate study at the University of Chicago
and Columbia University. He has been
a member of the faculty at Columbia
since 1938. He was on the research
staff of the Army Air Force during
World War II and also served as sec
retary of the Conference on Research
in Income and Wealth, Bureau of Eco
nomic Research. He has served as a
taxation consultant to the U. S. Treas
ury, the state of New York, the United
Nations, the New York Telephone Com
pany, Tax Foundation and the Joint
Council of Economic Education.
MR. MAX FREEDMAN, writer
of “In Perspective”
Mr. Freedman is a native of Win
nipeg, Canada. He joined the Edmon
ton Alberta Journal in 1936 and within
six months, was writing a political col
umn. After wartime service in the
Canadian Army, he turned down a $16,-
000 job with a Toronto brokerage firm
for a $6,000 newspaper post with the
Winnipeg Free Press. In 1949 he went
to Washington, D. C. as a foreign cor
respondent for the Manchester Guard
ian. He was rated “the best foreign
correspondent covering the U. S. capi-
tol” by fellow newsmen in Washington.
He now writes a political column “In
Perspective,” distributed by the Pub
lishers’ Newspaper Syndicate in Chi
cago.
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