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The 1920s were the period during which the businessman was, as Stuart Chase put it (Allen 1964), “the dictator of our destinies,” ousting “the statesman, the priest, the philosopher, as the creator of standards of ethics and behavior” and becoming “the final authority on the conduct of American society.”
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Nelson, S.B. (1980). Oceanographic Prescience: The Deliberations of the First U.S. Interagency Conference on Oceanography, July 1, 1924. In: Sears, M., Merriman, D. (eds) Oceanography: The Past. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8090-0_17
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