Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three years ago he made a study of the British income tax system for Secretary Morgenthau. He advocates: simplifying the tax laws to save taxpayers much needless litigation; putting the Bureau of Internal Revenue on a career instead of patronage basis; an entirely new method of taxing capital gains. Not since Congress in 1930 created the job of Director of the Bureau of Prisons has it been vacant...
...city's funeral, not ours," said Michael J. ("Umbrella Mike") Boyle, the bold boss who had called the strike. Long-time business agent for a Chicago local of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, "Umbrella Mike" Boyle is said to have earned his nickname by his method of collecting donations from electrical contractors and other citizens who sought his favors. Boss Boyle would hang his umbrella on the bar of Johnson's saloon, absent himself while the graftee plunked the agreed sum into it, then return and innocently walk off with the umbrella. In eight years...
Vacancies would be filled by gubernatorial appointment from a list of eligibles selected by a non-partisan commission. Said President Charles M'. Thomson of the Chicago Bar Association as he signed the report: "There can be no reasonable difference of opinion over the proposition that the existing method of selecting judges ...is about as bad as it could...
...tutoring schools to remark that the purpose of a college education is to "make you a gentleman", his definition of a gentleman being apparently one who pays another to do what he should do himself. This is not such a bad definition. But although the tutor's method of studying for the exam may not have yielded him the maximum intellectual return, it may be doubted that purely social ambitions drove him to seek further learning. If he went to learn, the tutee had better recant, for he is betrayed. It not, the Professor giving the course must feel very...
...management transition. Not to be decided until the Foundation's four administrators meet is whether Banker Hayden's millions will be spent in grants to existing schools and colleges, as many a bursar and overseer hoped last week, or by devising the Foundation's own method of making a nobler race...