Word: generalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With this rabbit punch at his foes, white-goateed Statistician Roger Ward Babson last week rudely suggested that famed Helen Keller be elected to succeed him as moderator of the general council of the Congregational and Christian Churches. Shocked bigwigs of the church council, which was holding its biennial convention in Beloit, Wis., hastily apologized to Miss Keller for "the public use which has been made by Mr. Babson of the name of Miss Helen Keller in a most unkind and undignified manner...
...odds with the church administration because he thinks it has introduced too much business into religion, Businessman Babson arrived at the convention with a plan to reduce the church officials' power. At the opening session Dr. Charles Emerson Burton, retiring general secretary, replied to Moderator Babson's charges, agreed that Congregationalist ministers' salaries (average: $1,663) are too low, but declared the remedy is more businesslike money-raising, added: "Our men are not whining much...
...General Motors Corp.'s Buick Division had paid some $50,000 to sponsor the broadcast, was committed to pay about $35,000 more for the first 15 minutes of air time, was prepared to pay proportionately for as many additional 15-minute periods as the broadcast might...
Postmaster General Farley (Wed. 10 p.m., NBC-Blue) addresses the University of Virginia Conference at Charlottesville. Subject: "Economic Stability and Government Investment...
...favorite thesis of Franklin Roosevelt (a thesis also of his severe critic General Hugh Johnson), is that steel prices have been too high and would have to come down to assist recovery. Neither this oft-reiterated suggestion nor the fact that steel production last December fell as low as 19% of capacity appeared to dent the steelmasters' contention that prices could not be cut without a slash in wages. But Franklin Roosevelt was also explicitly on the record against wage cutting. In the face of reduced sales and mounting losses ($1,292,151 lost in the first quarter...