Word: associationism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wheat. To the wheat-marketing associations engaged in organizing the National Farm Grain Growers Association, the Board expressed hope that they would hurry up, present a final plan for the Board to approve.
His methods, however, were unique. He psychoanalyzed Chicago politics by the "word association" test. Specimen Chicagoans, from steer-stabbers to brokers, were told to blurt out their immediate reactions to the examiner's key words. "Alderman" suggested the professor. "Grafter," quickly replied one citizen. Another said "crook." Another said...
Actress Helen Hayes, wife of Playwright Charles MacArthur, lately withdrew from the play Coquette, then on the road, saying: "I am going to have a baby" (TIME, Sept. 16). Producer Jed Harris ordered the play closed without notice. Five members of the cast at once demanded extra salary, said that...
It was the problem of this maelstrom that was of chief concern to the members of the American Bankers' Association, meeting in San Francisco last week. Old, approved methods of banking have had to be revised under the new systems while equally important to bankers is the new personal...
Reading these phrases in the National Association of Retail Druggists Journal, 2,500 members of the association packed, started off to their convention.