Word: methodically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...duty. At present Mr. Johnson (himself a Lieutenant Colonel of Reserves) is concerned with the army's overgrown list of colonels and generals. The field artillery, for example, has 95 colonels, needs no more than 50. Some system of selective promotion to replace the present seniority method (and incidentally to weed out 7,200 World War holdovers) soon will be presented to Congress, will please even the West Pointers who dislike Louis Johnson...
...continuing slide of the market, Bill Douglas took over in September, soon let it be known that so far as he was concerned regulation had only begun. After three years on the SEC in lesser jobs, Chairman Douglas was all too familiar with the Exchange's standard method of passing the buck. Under the influence of Richard Whitney, no longer president but still boss of the board of governors' Old Guard majority, the Exchange would agree to any reform that was suggested, then evade it on a technicality. With typical boldness, Douglas decided that his best defense against...
...avara, an organization for the transfer of .capital of German-Jewish emigrants, five years ago succeeded in getting Germany to accept frozen German-Jewish funds to pay for exports. German exporters get paid for the goods they ship to Palestine out of earmarked emigrant funds (blocked marks). By this method, some 82,000,000 marks in goods have been transferred to Palestine in the last five years and 14,000 refugee families have been shipped there, who otherwise would not have been able to raise the needed capital...
...that he was bringing the A. M. A. before a grand jury for violation of the Sherman Act. Although there are 60 cooperative health organizations in the U. S., with a total membership of 1,500,000, Trust-Buster Arnold declared that he was not concerned with justifying their method of medical care. "There should be free and fair competition between new forms of organization for medical service and older types of practice. ..." The A. M. A. violated the Sherman Act, Arnold said, because it attempted to prevent "qualified doctors from carrying on their calling, and members of the Group...
Died. Dr. Charles Holmes Herty, 70, onetime president (1915-16) of potent American Chemical Society, editor (1917-21) of Industrial & Engineering Chemistry, adviser to Chemical Foundation, Inc.. discoverer of a method for converting the South's cheap slash pine into newsprint; of heart failure; in Savannah, Ga. Mindful of Dr. Herty's revolutionary developments in southern turpentine and pulp industries, grateful Georgians early this year named him "Man of the Year for Georgia and the South," dropped Court House flags to half-mast at his death...