Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...steel posts put up which saved his life next time some trucks crashed down. Meantime he had become vice president of the local automobile union, one of the so-called "Federal unions" which the American Federation of Labor was chartering under the aegis of NRA. He learned one method of fighting unionism in 1934 when he and 25 other members of his union were abruptly discharged. Rehired, he was fired again when he became president of the union. Said he to his foreman: "You'll regret putting me on the street. When I work nine hours...
...summing up John Skillman's "Squash Racquets", next to the contents of the book itself, perhaps the most important item is the arrangement and method of teaching in the volume. The whole work is thoroughly outlined in the simplest fashion. It is written in a form which is easy to memorize and understand. In my experience, it is the very best book on squash racquets in the field...
...excluded from the athletic budget, or else would have to show a marked reduction in yearly expenditure. The latter course was chosen and the new budget figure was adhered to, although with great difficulty. At best this was and is a temporary solution to the problem, and a new method of raising money had to be found...
...since about the turn of the year. Many of those strikes do not seem to have been called in any regular fashion by submitting the question to a secret ballot of Union members. In several plants a few employees seem to have started the strike by the "sit down" method, thus stopping the flow of work and preventing the rest of the plants from working. Apparently, this was true of the Fisher Body Company in Cleveland, the Fisher Body No. 1 and No. 2 at Flint, and several others. Consequently, no one knows how many of the employees...
...placing on it a minute drop of wax. A human hair inserted in the wax was connected through a lever to a fine wire. The heart beats thus jerked the wire and a light beam passing across it translated them into a pulsating graph. The Department uses this method to study the cardiac effect of insecticides...