Word: come
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nine years ago President Henry Sturgis Dennison decided that the time had come to set up some sort of health supervision for his 130 major and minor executives. He is a paternalistic employer. He put in the Taylor System of scientific management in his Framingham factories; he started a profit-sharing system, through which the employes now own a good third of the company's stock...
...pride, after death, above the humble dust; when a famed man wishes to allow his admirers to satisfy their appetites for adulation; when a rich man wishes to indicate the extent of his domain and the individualities of its proprietor; such a person requires a portrait painter to come into his attendance and to reproduce, upon canvas, a face, in light and shade...
Because no person will agree with another person's view of him, few persons are satisfied with their portraits. John Davison Rockefeller expressed delight at seeing Sargent's portrait of him but Calvin Coolidge, when he had been painted by Philip Lazlo, sent for the artist to come and finish one of his hands. What emotions of embarrassment, scorn, amusement and despair Painter Lazlo must have concealed in the letter which he addressed to the President to inform him that the hand was finished...
...facts gleaned from the books were that the number of pupil hours during 1927 was nearly 1,000,000,000; that the estimated total cost of running schools in 1929 was $131,700,680,89, that the rental of burglar alarms next year would come to $3,691 and that repairs to fuel scales would cost...
Politics: Democracy, with all its faults, is the only possible system of government that helps the individual to help himself. The day will come when the experimental methods now used in the natural sciences will also be applied to social problems...