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In 1928 he was appointed Director of Research in an effort to establish a Department of Economics at the Claremont Colleges in California that the trustees hoped would form the nucleus of a new undergraduate men's college; Frank Fetter of Princeton University was the other prominent economist hired, and served as Chairman.<ref>Malcolm Paul Douglass, ''Phoenix in Academe: The Birth and Early Development of the Claremont Graduate University, 1925–1952'', Xlibris, 2010, {{ISBN|9781450097659}}, [https://books.google.com/books?id=1yKv7CRyciwC&pg=PA33#v=onepage&q&f=false p. 33].</ref> See also [https://econjwatch.org/file_download/162/2007-09-editorsfetter-char_issue.pdf his signature on the anti-Smoot Hawley letter] and the publication details of his second banking book (also [http://stanforddailyarchive.com/cgi-bin/stanford?a=d&d=stanford19300724-01.2.35&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Stanford Daily]).