Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...could be induced by the persuasion of Mr. A. W. Shaw to exhibit themselves and their troubles as clinical material--walking cases. In the meantime, teaching of the established type could go on in the subjects that already had some academic traditions, pending alterations. And in other subjects, the matter of the course could be dissected and outside specialists brought in to handle the severed members. But suppose these eminent business practitioners from whom you asked a talk on Revelations insisted on filling their allotted time with a discourse on Genesis? Then here was simply another kink to be straightened...
...science of management: here is the real center of business. This is the thing which business men of the older fashion meant when they said executives could not be trained outside of business. Now they are realizing how little business itself knows of this delicate and difficult matter. It applies not only to the factory but to all activities of business; it deals not merely with machines and methods, but with all the ordered work of human beings. It has still to develop its wider applications; it has yet to make of the factory nomerely a mechanizing evil necessary...
...made his disciples discard. Theatre and cinema houses are banned in Zion. So is tobacco in all its forms. Opposed to all scientific attainment, Overseer Voliva nonetheless operates one of the most powerful broadcasting stations in the U. S. He explains: ''Our radio station is a matter between God and the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church. It was conceived and born in prayer." Despite its solvency, Zion City remains unattractive. The houses, except for Overseer Voliva's rococo mansion, are low and cheap. The streets are dusty, with incredibly deep thank-you-ma'ams. A monster billboard...
...drafts on his Telluride bank. He filled out these drafts for large, round figures, presented them to the Chase bank for Chase certification. Inasmuch as a certified check has always been considered the closest possible relative to actual coin of the realm, the certification of these drafts was a matter of no small moment. But the Chase cashier did not hesitate, for only the day before the Chase bank had received from six other Manhattan banks instructions to hold for the Bank of Telluride credits amounting to $500,000. The six Manhattan banks, in turn, had received wires from their...
...routine matter appeared this transaction until the six Manhattan banks advised their six Denver correspondents that their telegraphed orders had been executed. Promptly the six Denver correspondents informed the six Manhattan banks that they had sent no such telegrams, had ordered no credits for the Bank of Telluride...