Word: kineticism
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Compact, kinetic, quick-spoken, the new Secretary of Commerce is a typical high-pressure salesman, called to Washington to sell U. S. business the idea of economic recovery. Most Cabinet officers, including Mr. Lamont, have lapsed into cautious silence after.being badly burned by fruitless predictions of rapidly returning prosperity. Undaunted...
Talkative, easygoing, amiable Premier Herriot thus was seen to have expanded the Cabinet to 18 portfolios, whereas his curt, nervous, kinetic predecessor Andre Tardieu compressed the previous Cabinet to 13 (TIME, March 7). Probably most Frenchmen are vaguely pleased by the change. They nicknamed M. Tardieu somewhat contemptuously L'Americain...
Founder of the York Bible Class in 1925 was a rich, handsome (6 ft. 3) in., 215 Ib.) young man, Denton Massey, 31. grandson of the founder of Massey-Harris Co., Ltd., largest maker of farm implements in the British Empire. Graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Founder Massey is...
Indigent, remote and preacherless churches have been promised a boon in the talking cinema. Year ago the Presbyterian Board of Christian Education got up a cinema service, performed by Presbyterian leaders (TIME, Jan. 26). For commercial purposes last week RCA Photophone Inc. dangled enticing names before U. S. congregations, releasing...
To San Francisco last week to celebrate the 50th anniversary of C. E.'s founding went some 14,000 Christian Endeavorers. Fewer than at many a previous convention, they nevertheless represented an interdenominational organization grown impressively large: 4,000,000 members in 80,000 societies in 105 countries. If...