Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Career: Born into a good family of social standing and abundant means, he was educated at expensive private schools. At 15 he started a juvenile newspaper of which his father, James H. Reed, bought every copy as a method of suppression. Sent to Princeton, he once ran away, hoboed his way to Washington, returned to his studies chastened by the experience. Graduated from Princeton in 1900, he studied law at the University of Pittsburgh, was admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar in 1903, entered his father's law firm of Reed, Smith, Shaw & McClay. The late Senator Knox, friend...
...object of the triumvirate is not to change the policy of the company but to arrange a method for meeting the obligations incurred by Cineman Fox. Assurance that the affairs of the company will remain in such conservative trustees' hands for five years will make lenders more willing...
...sold a large block of Central States Electric at a price considerably below the market. Seller, number of shares and price were not announced. But Blue Ridge assets showed a November appreciation of $12,000,000 and Central States on the day of the sale closed at 28. One method of giving Blue Ridge a $12,000,000 profit would have been to sell it 1,000,000 shares of Central States at 16 (12 points below the market). As to the seller, Harrison Williams' control of Central States and part sponsorship of Blue Ridge indicated him as Angel...
...amused Paris with his many sculptural stunts: a picador astride, concocted with stovepipes, pot scrapers, an egg beater, some fuzz and the lid of a pan; a statue of a cat and a woman made into one (called La Femme-Chatte), and a wire ostrich. His taille directe method (the cutting of a sculpture directly from its material without rehearsals in clay- "the releasing of the form from the fundamental block") has caused many a contemporary to imitate...
...This method of selecting the board is somewhat different from that employed last year. At that time, the entire board was chosen directly by the temporary Freshman Executive Council, which consists of the chairmen and treasurers of the various dormitory committees...