Joins State Department

Professor Lloyd P. Rice of the Economics Department was called to Washington by Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, early in February to serve as Chief Economic Analyst in preparation of trade negotiations with the Philippines.

Professor Rice, an authority on Philippine-United States trade relations, has served on a number of other federal projects. He has been a member of the Economics Division of the Federal Farm Board, the National Land Use Planning Committee, and the United States Tariff Commission, on which he filled the post of Chief Economic Analyst. He has also served as chairman of a committee under the Trade Agreements Commission.

Professor Rice graduated from Wesleyan in 1913, subsequently receiving his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard. He was an instructor in economics and sociology at Tufts College in 1916-17, and from 1917 to 1920 taught at Wesleyan where he was made assistant professor in 1919. He came to Dartmouth as assistant professor of economics in 1920, and in 1934 was elevated to the rank of full professor, receiving an honorary M.A. from the College at the same time. He is a member of the American Economic Association, the American Farm Economic Association, the National Tax Association, and the Tax Policy League.