Word: firming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...explanation for Dr. Wunder's resignation was that he wanted to identify himself "with a larger ministry whose influence and field of service is national." He said he had time and again been invited to other pulpits, had invariably declined. But now he had been asked to join the firm of Ward, Wells & Dreshman, specialists in philanthropic, educational and religious financing. In the past ten years this Manhattan firm has raised...
Lest the thoughtless imagine he were leaving the church for business, devout Dr. Wunder explained why he called his new occupation a "ministry". Said he: "The members of the firm are Christian men of high ideals and deep religious convictions. They believe, as I do, that they are feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, visiting the sick as literally as Christ commanded His followers to do. They consider themselves to be engaged in religious work...
...Wunder, long acquainted with members of the firm, became closely associated with them in the work of financing the Baptist Temple. They discovered that he, aged 36, is a dynamo for work. The Baptist Temple project includes successfully operating a 14-story office building and a commercial restaurant, organizing a community service plan, adding 1,300 new church members. The Sunday congregations, whooped up by advertising, average 3,500, fill the auditorium half an hour before the service. The annual budget of the Temple amounts to $120,000. While Dr. Wunder made no mention of his new salary, congregation members...
...useful knowledge but it could not train executives. Business executives we were told, like Michel Angelos and Shakespeares, are born, not made. I remember well a question put to me, in the first year of the school, by one of these skeptical visitors. He was as it happened, a firm believer in West Point methods. "What, apart from mere technical knowledge, readily acquired and honesty, much more common than is sometimes thought are the qualities requisite for success in business?" I told him: "Judgment, courage, and that combining and balancing quality which may be called resourcefulness." Perhaps I might better...
...these deficits (TIME, July 22). An audit of the scrambled costs of maintaining the different classes of postal service is now in progress. Last week Postmaster General Brown prepared to call into an October conference the big users of first-class mail, particularly direct-mail advertisers. Quickly spread the firm belief that the Department would recommend as a deficit-extinguisher an increase in first-class postage from 2? to 2½ or 3?. Argument for the increase: Citizens pay the deficit anyway, either in higher postage rates or U. S. taxes...