Chronology of Stuart Chase - Part I: 1888 - 1927

Copyrighted 2006
By Richard Vangermeersch
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Richard is a Professor of Accounting at the University of Rhode Island.  His book, The Life and Writings of Stuart Chase (1888-1985) From An Accountant’s Perspective was published in 2005 in the Development of Accounting Thought Series of Elsevier Press, Volume 8.

Richard also published a book in 2002 on Stuart Chase’s father, titled An Analysis of the Life and Writings of Harvey Stuart Chase (1861-1946 along with Selected Readings.  This book is available from Richard Vangermeersch at P.O. Box 338, Kingston, RI  02881 at a cost of $20 which includes postage.

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1888    (March 8) S. Chase was born in Somersworth, NH, son of Harvey Stuart and Aaronette (Rowe) Chase.  He was a descendant of the Englishman Aquila Chase, who settled at Hampton, NH, in 1640, (The National Encyclopedia of American Biography (NEAB)). S.Chase was raised in Haverhill, MA, (Boston Globe, obit, Nov.18, 1985). His grandfather was a shoe manufacturer and banker in Haverhill (NEAB for Harvey S. Chase).

1893   Harvey S. Chase invented the “Chase Magnetic Ore Separator,” (N.Y. Times, Apr.10, 1946, obit.).

1894   (June) Clifford Hoffman Chase, S. Chase’s uncle published, “The Critical Hour” in New    England Magazine, pp. 413-423.

1895   (Jan.) Clifford Hoffman Chase published, “Thomas of Parkworth’s,” in New England Magazine, pp. 628-640.

1905   Firm of Harvey S. Chase & Co., auditors and examiners of accounts founded (NEAB).

1906 - 1908   Stuart Chase attends M.I.T. -- the school from which his father graduated in 1883, (NEAB). [According to his father’s plan, was booked for the first two years of college at MIT ‘to learn how to work’ with two years at Harvard to broaden his knowledge of business, banking and economics.] (The Redding Times, April 26, 1956).

1907   S. Chase quoted by Norman Sibler (Sept. 29, 1977, p. 4):  “’07 and ’08, yes.  I graduated from Newton High School in ’06.  And that fall went to MIT, ’06 - ’07, ’07 - ’08.  Probably the most educational thing that ever happened to me was after I’d finished my freshman year at MIT, father took the family abroad.  We had a walking trip through Switzerland, and we went down to the Italian lakes, and on down to Rome, Naples and Brindisi.  Here we took a yacht—it was one of these educational outfits that cruised through the Grecian island, and went to Constantinople then down to Egypt, Cairo—we climbed the Pyramids. I really got an education out of that summer, I tell you!”

1908-10   S. Chase attended Harvard, contributed to the Harvard Lampoon, graduated cum laude, (The Redding Times, April 26, 1956) John Reed, the radical American journalist buried in the Kremlin wall, and columnist Walter Lippman were in his class, (Hartford Courant, Nov. 17, 1985, obit). No attribution to Chase noted in Harvard Lampoon for those years.

1910   S. Chase published “Credos” in his diary.

1910 - 1917   S. Chase was employed by his father’s firm as a public accountant. “S. Chase wanted to be an architect but instead practiced public accounting… He disliked it but was good at it.” (Current Biography 1940).

1911   Harvey S. Chase appointed by President Taft as one of the six commissioners of the President’s Commission on Economy and Efficiency of the National Government, (NEAB).  S. Chase joined his father in Washington on the project.

1913   S. Chase joined the Boston Fabian Club, (N.Y. Times, obit, 11/17/85). Fabian Societies, founded in 1883, were a group of British socialists who advocated a non-revolution to attain a more socialistic society, unlike Marxists.  Famous Fabians were George Bernard Shaw and the Webbs (Sidney and Beatrice) (Encyclopedia Americana, Vol.10, 1996, p.823).  (Lanier, 1970).

1914   S. Chase published “On the Threshold” in Forum, vol. LI, pp. 710-7.  (Lanier, 1970).

1914   (July 5)   S. Chase married Margaret Hatfield. (WWW in Am).

1914   (Dec.5)   S. Chase published a poem “Bread Line” in Survey, 33:239-40, (RGPL).

1916   S. Chase became a CPA in Massachusetts, (NEAB).

1916   S. Chase became a partner in his father’s firm, (The Redding Times, Apr. 26, 1956).

1916   S. Chase and Margaret Hatfield Chase “… spent their honeymoon representing themselves as an out-of-work couple and became acquainted at first hand with the unemployment problem. They published their experiences on job-finding, factory conditions, etc., in a book A Honeymoon Experiment” (1916), (Current Bio, 1040).

1916 (April)   S. Chase published “Budget Building” in Good Housekeeping 62:508-15 (RGPL).

1916 (May 16)   S. Chase’s portrait, as well as his wife’s, was in Bookman 43: 249, (RGPL).

1917    S. Chase had comments in “Class of 1910 Third Report.”  “Since graduating from college, I have been largely engaged in mastering the profession of expert accounting. This work has taken me into many types of business, and over a considerable area of geographical territory….” (pp. 74-75)

1917    S. Chase spent six months working at Jane Addams’ settlement house in Chicago, (“The   Stuart Chase Story” Redding Pilot, 10/28/82). The Hull House was the best known settlement house in America. “It offered a comprehensive program of civic, cultural, recreational, and educational activities and attracted admiring visitors from all over the world”. (Collier’s Encyclopedia).  (Lanier, 1970)

1917 (May)  S. Chase published “Budget for Three” in Good Housekeeping 64:124, (RGPL).

1917 (April)  S. Chase “joined a pacifist group, traveled with it to Washington, and, as a sign of protest, stood all day on the steps of the Capitol feeling ridiculous and impotent.” (Lanier, 1970).

1917 (Aug. 4)  S. Chase published “War Budget for the Household,” in The Independent 91: 169-70 (RGPL).

1917-1921   During all of this time the office of the F.T.C. in the Conway Building, under his instructions and with his active consent, became the headquarters of all the active members of the Fabian Club, including such men as (Irwin St. John) Tucker and (Victor) Berger and other socialistic members of the F.T.C.” (Senator Watson, Oct. 20, 1919).

1917-1920  The FTC memo “Analysis of Senator Watson’s Charges Against the FTC and Members of the FTC’s Staff” lists SC publications in New Majority, Independent, New Republic, Reconstruction, New York Call, and the Liberator.  These items should be found, if possible.

1917-1921  In 1917 he joined the F.T.C. and was sent to Chicago take charge of the investigation of Armour & Co., which was part of the general meat investigation. A year later (1918) he was transferred to the Food Administration and placed in local charge of the Control of Packer’s Profits. … After the War (1919?), he rejoined the F.T.C., wrote the volume on Profits for the Meat Investigation, and then took charge of the accounting features of the Milk Investigation (Wilson Bull. For Librarians). His critical report , he said later, “led to his being dismissed,” (NY Times, obit, 11/17/85).

It is interesting to note that Veblen also worked for the Food Administration in 1918. His report (with its first draft written by Isador Lubin, later very involved in the New Deal. Lubin was a student of Veblen at the University of Missouri.) entitled “Farm Labor for the Period  of the War” was an unmitigated attack on the “leisure class” in general and bankers in specific. Veblen’s message was bluntly and brutally “send the leisure class back to the farm to work.” (Essays in Our Changing Social Order by Thorstein Veblen.)

1917-1921   SC was a part of the long struggle to arrive at the Packers and Stockyards Act of 1921.

1918 (Jan.)   S. Chase “was also instrumental in organizing a meeting at the Chicago Theater, at which Lincoln Steffens spoke.  That anarchist had just returned from Russia and his address was delivered for the purpose of aiding in the recognition by our Government of Lenin and Trostsky,” (Senator Watson, Oct. 20, 1919).

1918 (June 11)   SC part of the FTC team interviewing Swift & Co. (Maximum Profits Limitation Meat-Packing Industry, pp. 40-68) and Morris & Co., (Ibid., pp. 138-179).

1918 (June 12)   SC was a part of the FTC team interviewing Armour, Wilson, and Cudahy (Ibid., pp. 68-138).

1918 (June 18)   SC presents Exhibit III, “Regulation of Packers’ Profits” (Maximum Profits …, pp. 25-39).

1918 (June 24)  Walter Y. Durand (FTC Economist), Perley Morse & Co., and SC signed Exhibit I (Maximum Profits… pp. 11-19).  It is noted that Harvey S. Chase (SC’s father) was a consultant for the FTC for this report (p. 12).

1918 (June 28)   The FTC reported to President Wilson that the 5 great packers were making excess profits based on net worth.  Three exhibits were attached.  SC signed the final exhibit and wrote an attached individual report.  (See Meat-Packer Legislation, Part 6, pp.380-381).  (See Maximum Profits, … p. 2).

1918 (June 29)   The FTC’s “Report of the FTC regarding Profiteering” was sent to President Wilson and became Senate Doc. No. 248, 65th Cong. 2nd Session.  This was reprinted in Meat-Packers Legislation, Part 25, March 24, 1920, pp. 1835-1850.  Swift & Co. protested and attached a 4 page response.  The meatpacker section of the FTC report (pp. 1844-1845) seems to be the work of SC.

1918 (June to November)   SC and the accountants for the great packers meet many times to work    on an uniform accounting system (Memorandum on Uniform Accounting, FTC, National Archives SC Papers Container #2).  See Lanier, pp. 31-32.

1918 (July 8)  Herbert E. Hoover, then head of the Food Administration, wrote to President Wilson that the June 28th FTC report should have used total liabilities and   equities as its investment base to determine excess profits.  (See Meat-Packer Legislation Hearings, Part 6, pp. 381-385).  (See Maximum Profits…, pp. 5-10).

1918 (July 20)  William Colver, Chairman of the FTC, rebuffed Hoover’s letter in
another letter to President Wilson.  Three reports of the expert accountants were attached. (See Meat-Packer Legislation Hearings, Part 6, pp. 385-387).

1918 (Sept.) SC had John Reed speak to SC’s Fabian Club in Chicago.  Reed also spoke at a Chicago theater, in the process of his coverage of the I.W.W. trial in Chicago.  (Hicks, John Reed, 1936, p. 310).

1918 (Nov. 25)  Operative Midler of the APL reported:  “As to the Radical Book Shop, while I don’t think they held formal meetings there, there are always from one to half a dozen radicals, I.W.W.’s or Bolsheviks; in this store every evening.  …”  (NA+RA File #373887 in Roll #821).

1918 (Nov. 4)  S. Chase wrote F.T.C. Chairman, Francis Walker, that the Herbert Hoover proposal for treating the excess-profits tax as a means for regulating companies was in error (Bradley and Merino, 1994, p. 195).

1918 (December)   SC and MHC were 2 of the 7 signers of What Happens in Military Prisons:  The Public is Entitled to the Facts.  Three people sent this pamphlet into the Bureau of Investigation (NA+RA File #340948 on Roll #766.)

191 (Jan. 17)  SC testifies before the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry on its Hearings on Government Control of the Meat Packing Industry (Part I, pp. 164-176).  This testimony is later on (Jan. 24, 1921) printed as an exhibit in the Congressional Record (pp. 1921-1943).

1919 (Feb. 13 or 14)  SC appears as an assistant to FTC Commissioner Victor
Murdock, who presented S. Chase’s summary report on profits of the packers.  S. Chase was grilled by Representative Winslow about other industrial companies’ profits.  S. Chase thought the Big 5 Packers’ profits were just a little higher (p. 2330).  Repr. Winslow wanted a much more detailed study (pp. 2331-2332).  See Part V “Governmental Central of Meat-Packing Industry Hearings House Committee on         Interstate and Foreign Commerce, 65th Cong. 3rd Session.”

1919 (Sept. 24, 1919)  The FTC letters and Hoover’s letter were published in the
Congressional Record.  (also see Meat-Packer Legislation Hearings, Part 6, p. 380).

1919 (Oct. 21)  The Bureau of Investigation produced a report on the CONFIDENTIAL INVESTIGATION of subjects mentioned in Senator Watson’s Speech.

1919 (Oct. 21)  Jas. O. Peyronnin interviewed George Thompson, janitor in SC’s
apartment house, remarked that he found it “Funny” for a Government investigator to be a socialist of the kind Chase was.  “Thompson spoke freely, without much questioning, and employee was particular to take down his remarks verbatim in shorthand” (NA&RA File #373887 in Roll #821).

1919 (Oct. 22)  It was reported in the N.Y. Times from Chicago (19:5) that two of the “radicals” said this about SC.  Basil M. Manly met SC only twice on official business when SC was with the F.D.A.  Victor L. Berger--a real radical and later a member of the U.S. House-- said he never head of SC.  Berger classified SC as a non-radical.  “If it is an off-spring of the English Fabian Society, whose major spokesmen are H.G. Wells and George Bernard Shaw, then it must be about as radical as Secretary of War Baker and Senator Watson himself.”  Berger also said;  “Senator Watson’s attack is a sordid bit of propaganda in behalf of the meat trust.”

1919 (Oct. 23)  The FTC attacked Senator Watson:  In a formal statement the FTC
charged Senator Watson with having relations with the Chicago Meat Packers, and     declared that his allegations against the Commission’s employees were part of the      warfare of the packers against the Commission and the Dept. of Justice with the purpose of subverting justice.” (NYT, 11:1)

1919 (Oct. 24)  Jas. O. Peyronin reported about the Fabian Club:  “Representatives of the Police Dept, familiar with the radical situation in Chicago and vicinity and detailed on this class of work, do not believe the Fabian Club, though having a membership principally of conscientious objectors, their relatives, and a good many socialists, is affiliated with any radical organization. (NA & RA File # 373887 in Roll #821)

In same file:  “It is further understood that these meetings, which are, usually held in the business district of the city are attended by a class of people who do not attend the meetings of the radical organizations.  Several persons with whom employee talked to concerning the club state that a great many debates take place at these meetings on the subjects which the speakers talk on.

Unless further investigation is requested, matter will be considered closed.”

1919 (Nov. 10) George Ruch reported to J.E. Hoover that George Thomson, janitor of SC’s apartment in Chicago, reported that the Chases were very radical in their conversations. “Mr. Chase at one time wrote an article about the packers, but on account of his strong radical language, he was compelled to change the wording before it could be published.” Ruch said this about SC’s Fabian Club:  “This Club had a membership consisting principally of conscientious objectors, three relatives and a good many socialists.  It is not believed by the Chicago office of this Bureau that the Fabian Club is affiliated with any radical organization.  …  (NA+RA File # 373887 in Roll #821).

1919 (late)  The FTC prepared an informal response to Senator Watson’s charges.  S. Chase was mostly defended but the FTC noted SC’s Fabian Club and his support of Jane Addams and his attendance with her at the speech by Lincoln Steffens.  (Container 2, S. Chase Papers at LOC).

1919 (July 5)  S. Chase “wrote an article for the New Majority, an extreme radical paper, in which he excoriated this Government for having failed to recognize the Russian Government,” (Senator Watson, Oct. 2, 1919). 1919 (Oct. 20)  “Senator James E. Watson, a right wing Republican from Indiana and a frequent spokesman in Congress for the meat packers, publicly charged that Stuart Chase was an extreme socialist devoted to the overthrow of capitalism and the government,” (Lanier, 1970).

1919-1921  Senator Kenyon (William Squire, Republican, Iowa, April 12, 1911 to Feb. 24, 1922) led a two year struggle, using the FTC’s report on the Packers--including SC’s efforts to arrive at the Packers and Stockyards Act of 1921.  This story, including a consent decree, is worthy of a book in itself.

1920 (Jan. 28)  U.S. Senator Charles Townsend--as chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce’s subcommittee on investigating FTC employees--requested the U.S. Attorney General for relevant information.

While the members of the subcommittee were not noted, the membership of the full      committee were:  Albert B. Cummins, Chairman; Charles E. Townsend; Robert M.     LaFollette; Miles Poindexter; George P. McLean; James E. Watson; Frank B. Kellogg; Bert M. Fernald; Joseph S. Frelinghuysen; Davis Elkins; Ellison D. Smith; Atlee        Pomerene; Henry L. Myers; Joe T. Robinson; Oscar W. Underwood; Josiah O. Wolcott; and Augustus G. Stanley (NA+BA File #207699).

1920 (Feb. 8)  An unsigned memo noted SC “is stated to be a leading member of theAmnesty League for the Release of Political Prisoners” (NA+RA File #272887 in Roll #821).

1920 (Feb. 10)  Robert E. Mickles of the Seattle office of the Bureau of Investigation stated he was with the FTC in Chicago in 1917.  He was told of subversive remarks by a William W. Days but hear none there.  However, Earl S. Haines was overhead in Kansas City. Mickles concluded “I feel that if the radicals referred to by Senator Watson are eliminated no other department of the government has a greater opportunity of serving the people.”  Mickels wrote this to Charles W. Miller, Counsel for Subcommittee on Interstate Commerce, U.S. Senate (NA+RA File #373887 in Roll #821).

1920 (Feb. 20)  The U.S. Attorney General wrote to Victor Murdock, Chairman FTC, about his Feb. 2, 1920 request on information on the “reds in the FTC”.  The Attorney General stated SC had no present radical activities disclosed at the date of Oct. 23, 1919 (NA+RA File #373887 in Roll # 821).

1920 (Feb. 21)  J.E. Hoover notes a report on FTC employees.  Report indicates theAmerican Protective League (APL) as being a major source (NA+RA File #373887 from Roll 821).

1920 (Feb. 27)  Edward Brennan, Division Superintendent in Chicago for the Dept. of Justice, wrote Frank Burke of the Bureau of Investigation--ATTENTION MR. HOOVER--that SC and MHC both held one share of the Radical Book Club.  This was done under a search warrant.  SC was on the Director list but rarely attended and resigned on  March 12, 1919 (NA+RA file # 373887 in roll #821).

1920 (March 1 and 2)  E.C. Lasater of the Farmer’s National Committee (Chairman of) testified brutally against the packers.  It was in his March 2 testimony that the references to SC were made. (See Meat-Packer Legislation, Part 5, pp. 375-387).

1920 (March 24)  J.E. Hoover received an unsigned report from the files of the American Protective League that Irwin St. John Tucker spoke in Chicago on April 14, 1918 and that there was a Radical Book Shop in Chicago (NA+RA File #373887 in Roll #821).

1920 (May-June) SC was referenced by the National Archives (File #180980 in Roll  #581) as sending President Wilson a request for amnesty for WWI protesters.

1920 (May 18)  In a long speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate, Senator Walsh of MA
noted that Basil M. Manly of the FTC published “War Profits of the Patrioteers” in The Searchlight of April 1920 (Congressional Record, p. 7193). This article was reprinted as Searchlight Pamphlet No. 1. “The Searchlights staff constitutes a great truth telling machine that turns the bright white light of publicity into the dark corners in Washington and reveals to the people what is actually being done by the government” (back page).  Manly does reference the meat packers (pp. 9-12).  Manly bases his study on return on the $ amount of capital stock--about as wild and non-uniform a base--and just seethes hatred in a “Yellow-Journalism” manner. (My opinion).

1920 (June 10)  J.E. Hoover transmitted to a Mr. Latimer of the U.S. Department of
Justice a report on the National Popular Government League.  SC was noted as being   associated with Basil Manly and other socialists in the FTC (NA+RA, File #379228).

1920 (Sept.)  Odell noted that FTC commissioner Colver asked President Wilson not to be reappointed to the FTC, as the Senate--Colver believed--would not confirm him (Odell, 1921, p. 37).

1920 (Sept. 14)  James P. Rooney, agent in charge of Chicago for the Bureau of Investigation, reported to the attention of Mr. J.E. Hoover about various issues of The Socialist Review. SC was listed as one of its Contribution Editors in its May 1920 issue, as was S. Nuorteva--a man with a long record (NA+RA File #384507 on Roll #844).

1920 (late)  Odell reported that SC was in charge of a study on canned milk companies.  The study indicated a refund of $200,000 to the federal government.  The firing of SC greatly threatened this refund (Odell, 1921, p. 36).

1920 (Dec. 8)  The U.S. Dept. of Justice summarized its care against SC.  SC was tied to Basil Manly in that Manly was a member of the Fabian Club and “a conferee with other socialists at Chase’s office.”  Agent W.N. Rudd found SC and his wife “belong to the intellectual university group and have been engaged in socialist experiments.  Both subject and his wife are college people of high grade.”  “Subject’s father-in-law is said to have remarked that he hoped that they would not get into jail but feared that they would and stated that they would have no one to blame but themselves if they did.”  Liet. R.M. Cunningham reported that SC is “a socialist in that he does not believe in wealth but is a strong supporter of the Government at this time…  From what I can learn there is no question as to his loyalty to the Government at this time.”

A.R. Webb concluded that the Fabian Society of Chicago was a vestibule to a racial anti war coterie of which Chase and his wife were, because of their education and wealth, presiding geniuses.  …”

Liet. G.L. Conley found that SC and MHC are “intellectual freaks.”  “…They are simply a harmless people who possibly have been misunderstood by the complaintant, but as far as I can find out, there is nothing dangerous regarding their doctrine, because the average person will take them as a joke.  I understand that the Fabian Club is one of those clubs that stand for this utopian existence and ideal form of government.  I do not think it is necessary for us to go any further in this case”  (File #207699).

1920   S. Chase was quoted by Norman Silber on September 29, 1977, p. 10:  When I was working on The Profits of the Packers for the Federal Trade Commission, I noticed that while they had a lot of publicity about how miserable their profits were, I saw that their profit on their sales—percentage of profit on sales—seemed low, but if you transferred that, as a good accountant should, to the profit on net worth, it was very substantial, right through the war.  And when I found that out, I telephoned Mr. Hoover in Washington and said that I wanted to see him.  He said “Well, come on down,” so I went down, and I showed him these figures, and he went over them, and he said “Well, Chase, the boys in France are getting their meat, aren’t they?”  I said “Yes, they’re getting meat all right.”  “Why bother about it?”  I’ll never forget that phrase, “Why bother about it.”  So I went back to Chicago very much disillusioned.

1920 (June)  S. Chase published “What is a Reasonable Profit?” in the Journal of Accountancy, pp. 416-434 (Accts. Index).

1920   S. Chase was the unsigned author of Part V, “Profits of the Packers,” in the food investigation conducted by the F.T.C.  (Washington: USGPO).

1920 (Dec. 4 and Dec. 31)  S. Chase was dismissed from the F.T.C. for “lack of funds” O’Dell, 1921).

1920s (Early)  S. Chase “had been introduced…to the work of Frederick Taylor by his (Chase’s) friend and associate in the Labor Bureau, Otto Beyer.  Along with Beyer he joined a Taylor Society in New York City and incorporated the principles of efficient management into his vision of a functional society.”  (Lanier, 1970).

1920s  Stuart Chase “was an early member of the League for Industrial Democracy, an organization which grew out of the Intercollegiate Socialist Society and existed to   educate the public to the advantages of socialism,” (Lanier, 1970, p. 420).

1920 (Dec.)  S. Chase wrote a letter of protest over his treatment by the FTC to its chairman, Huston Thompson, as reported by George T. O’Dell in The Nation, Jan. 12, 1921 (p. 37).

1921 (Jan. 24)  SC was mentioned in the Congressional Record (p. 1939) in the testimony of Mr. Swift as to the availability of figures for 1918 and was quoted (pp. 1941-1943) in Exhibit III as to the calculation of profits and return on investment of the packers. Exhibit III came from the Senate Hearings before the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry.  S. Chase’s testimony there was on Jan. 17, 1919.

S. Chase testified very much similarly to the Report on the Profits of the Packers. He also testified as to the “comedy” of the Federal Food Administration limits on profit per sales $ and on investment of packers.

1921    S. Chase had comments in “Class of 1910—Fourth Report.” “In respect to my war record, I should like to say that I was bitterly opposed to the entry of the United States into the war, and would have been a conscientious objector had I not been exempted because of my family.  I think the treaty and its disastrous effect upon Europe has more than justified the philosophical stand I took in 1917” (p. 64).

1921 (Jan. 21)  G. T. O’Dell published “The Federal Trade Commission Yields to Pressure,” in The Nation, pp. 36-37.  O’Dell wrote of the four men (S. Chase, A.S. Kravitz, S.W. Taylor, and Earl S. Holmes) “The persecution that these men were subjected to during the past year it is only necessary to indicate that the espionage of Mr. A. Mitchell Palmer’s band of ‘Red Raiders’ went so far as to examine every bit of trash which was taken from     the homes of these four men.”

1921   S. Chase “joined the Technical Alliance in New York City, an organization of progressive engineers, working on a program of industrial coordination, under the guidance of Thorstein Veblen,” (Nat. Enc. Of Amer. Bio.).

1921   “At this time he became keenly interested in the problem of waste from the wider engineering point of view.” (Wilson Bulletin…).

1921 or 1922-1939  S. Chase “became associated with Labor Bureau, Inc. having charge of accounting and auditing” (Nat. Enc. Of Amer. Bio.) (1921 date) and WWW in AM for 1922 date.

1921 or 1922-1939(?)  S. Chase “kept books for the Scott Company, the nation’s leading firm in the buying and selling of stamps, which happened to be owned by his father-in-law, Charles Hatfield,” (Lanier, 1970)

1921   “He visits New York only once a week to attend to his duties at the Labor Bureau, which he performs without fee.” (Wilson Bull…).

1921 (Feb. 23) S. Chase published “Challenge of Waste to Existing Industrial Creed” in Nation 112:284-7 (RGPL).

1921 (July 20)   S. Chase published “Waste and Labor”: in Nation 113:67-9 (RGPL).

1922   S. Chase published The Challenge of Waste, a 32 page pamphlet for the League for Industrial Democracy in NY. 28 page pamphlet published in 1925 (Nat. Un. Cat)

1922    S. Chase published “The Technician and the Future” in World Tomorrow, vol. V, pp. 366-68, (Lanier, 1970).

1922 (May)   S. Chase published “The Huge Wastes in Coal” in Labor Age, vol. XI, pp. 8-10, (Lanier, 1970).

1922 (July 19) S. Chase published “Are you Alive?” in Nation 115:68-70 (RGPL).

1923   S. Chase “became a charter member of a small, loosely organized group, the Regional Planning Association of America,” (Lanier, 1970).

1923 (Feb. 28)   S. Chase published “What Shall We Do to be Saved?” in the New Republic 34: 12-14 (RGPL).

1923 (March 7)   S. Chase published “Words” in Nation 116:269, (RGPL).

1923 (June 20)   S. Chase published “Miners Present a Plan ” in New Republic 35:93-5, (RGPL).

1923 (June 27)   S. Chase published “Junk” in Nation 116:747-8, (RGPL).

1923 (Oct. 10)   S. Chase published “Etiquette of Big Business” in Nation 117:383 (RGPL).

1924   S. Chase published Special Accounting Examination and Reports with an introduction by J. Lee Nicholson in Scranton (PA) for International Textbook Company and also as volume 377 in International Library of Technology, (Accts. Index).

1924   S. Chase published Financial Calculations, with an introduction by Edward P. Moxey in Scranton (PA) for International Textbook Company, 56 p. (Accts. Index).

1924    S. Chase wrote Coaching for CPA Examination, 34 pages for the International Textbook Company of Scranton, PA, (Accts. Index).

1924    S. Chase “won Life’s contest prize for his recipe for bigger and better wars; and a little later the Boni and Liverright prize of $500 for the best review of Gillette’s The People’s Corporation”  (Current Bio 1940).

1924    S. Chase published “Portrait of a Radical” in Century Magazine, vol. CVIII, pp. 295-304, (Lanier, 1970).

1924 (March 26)   S. Chase published “Pants vs. Plus Fours at Palm Beach” in Nation 118:344-5, (RGPL).

1925    S. Chase had comments in “Class of 1910—5th Report” (pp. 21-22).

1925    S. Chase was reviewed in an anonymous editorial, “The Wastefulness of Advertising” in New Republic, vol. XLIV, pp. 139-40, (Lanier, 1970).

1925    S. Chase published “Does the World Need Employers?” in World Tomorrow, vol. VIII, pp. 231-32, (Lanier, 1970).

1925    S. Chase published The Tragedy of Waste, Macmillan Co. in New York.  It “attracted worldwide attention,”  (Boston Globe, obit, Nov. 18, 1985).

1925    S. Chase was quoted about The Tragedy of Waste.  “…The Russians translated it,…” (Normal Silber, Sept. 29, 1977, p. 16).

1925 (May 1)   S. Chase published “Coals to Newcastle” in Survey, 54:143-6, (RGPL).

1925 (Aug. 5 – Sept. 2) S. Chase published “Tragedy of Waste” in New Republic 43:282-6, 312-16, 342-5, 44:11-16, 37-40, (RGPL).

1925 (Dec. 2)   S. Chase published “Upward and Onward” in New Republic 45:35-6, (RGPL).

1925 (Dec. 23)   published “Soups, Soap and Shoes” in Nation 121:728-9, (RGPL).

1925 (Dec. 30) and 1926 (Jan. 6) (with F. J. Schlink)   S. Chase published “Few Billions for Consumers” in New Republic 45:153-5, 180-2, (RGPL).

1926    S. Chase published Are Radicals Crazy? An Analysis of Their Main Tenets in Light of Modern Science, a 12 page pamphlet for the League of Industrial Democracy, NY (Nat. Un. Cat.).

1926 (Jan 27)   S. Chase published “Interesting Books of 1925” in Nation 122:93, (RGPL).

1926 (May 5)   S. Chase published “Success Dope” in Nation 122:501-2, (RGPL).

1926 (May 15)   S. Chase published “Channels of Waste” in Survey 56:251-4, (RGPL).

1926 (July 21) S. Chase published “Henry Ford’s Utopia” in Nation 123:53-5, (RGPL).

1926 (Sept. 1) S. Chase published “My Great-Great Grandfather and I” in Nation 123:190-2, (RGPL).

1926 (Sept.)   S. Chase published “Dogma of Business First” in Harper’s 153:481-9, (RGPL).

1926 (Sept. 29)   S. Chase published “One Dead Level” in New Republic 48:137-9, (RGPL).

1926 (Dec.)   S.  Chase published “God and Mammon” in Nation 123:563-4 (RGPL).

1926 (Dec. 1)   S. Chase published “Wasting Women” in Survey 57:268-70 (RGPL).

1926 (Dec. 8)   S. Chase published “Gasless America” in Nation 123:586-7 (RGPL).

1927   S. Chase published “Violence in Labor Conflicts” in World Tomorrow, vol. X, pp. 108-11, (Lanier, 1970).

1927   S. Chase published “Salesmanship and Consumption” in Proceedings of the Academy of Political Science, vol. XII, pp. 694-97, (Lanier, 1970).

1927   S. Chase went to Russia as a consulting economist for an unofficial American Trade Union delegation (Nat. Enc. Of Am. Bio.).  It was then that he met with Joseph Stalin.  S. Chase wrote “Perhaps my most interesting adventure of all was interviewing Joseph Stalin for several hours in Moscow, in company with an American trade union delegation.  He spoke a little English, and laid his philosophy on the line in words I have never forgotten – and never agreed with,” (Redding Pilot, 10-28-82).

1927   S. Chase “was co-founder with Frederick J. Schlink and first president of the Consumer’s Research, Inc., an organization designed to give its members information from approved research bodies and testing laboratories covering the merits of many articles which the consumer purchases” (Nat. Enc. Am. Bio.).

1927    S. Chase co-authored with F. J. Schlink Your Money’s Worth:  A Study in the Waste of the Consumer’s Dollar in New York City by MacMillan (Nat. Un. Cat.).  “A book of facts for the consumer about buying and selling, it discussed the real value of things bought compared with their cost”  (Current Bio. 1940).

1927   S Chase wrote “The Practical Man and His World” in New Republic, LXIX, pp. 183-186.

1927 (Feb. 2 – Mar. 2) S. Chase (with F. J. Schlink) published “Consumers in Wonderland” in New Republic 49:293-6, 320-3, 345-51; 50:12-15, 38-41 (RGPL).

1927 (Feb. 6) S. Chase published “Averting Calamity” in Nation 124:168, (RGPL).

1927 (April) S. Chase had a portrait in The Technology Review, M.I.T.’s Alumni Magazine. The caption stated that “he lectured at the Old South Forum in Boston on ‘Fashion and the High Cost of Living.’”

1927 (May) S. Chase published “Short-circuiting War” in Forum 77:722-9 (RGPL).

1927 (May 25) S. Chase published “Park Avenue” in New Republic 51:9-11 (RGPL).

1927 (June 1) S. Chase published “Ask Somebody These” in Nation 124:609 (RGPL).

1927   S. Chase, James G. McDonald, and Rev. Edmund A. Walsh discussed “Soviet Russia after Ten Years.”  There was a stenographic report of the 99th New York luncheon discussion, November 19, 1927, of the Foreign Policy Association (Nat. Un. Cat.).