Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This is the most cockeyed piece of tax legislation ever imposed in a modern country. And if I am elected, I shall recommend immediate repeal of this vicious method of taxation...
...talk with Mr. Hearst. As proof of his journey, he offered a letter Mr. Hearst had written him confirming their conversation. From this document Secretary Ickes quoted Publisher Hearst as follows: "The average politician around him [Landon] is continually urging him to get out and talk. Talk is the method of the average politician, but ... this is a campaign in which speechmaking might do more harm than good. At present the Democrats have nothing to criticize Governor Landon about. You can see that in their attempts to criticize him. Too many speeches might give the Democrats their eagerly wanted opportunity...
This system was also probably the first step toward the introduction of the percentage method of marking into America. Under Quincy, the perfect recitation or examination scored eight points. The marks for all the recitations and examinations of a student were added together each year, and if at the end of the Senior year he had a sufficient point "aggregate" he graduated...
...deed affecting 46,000 firms and the daily lives of 1,300,000 workers was done last week by Benito Mussolini. Shrilled Italian newsorgans: "This is II Duce's method of proving to Italian workers that they would have nothing to gain from Communism and are better off under Fascism...
...pleased were the two officials by the results of the new traffic control method that they announced it would be used every Sunday until the end of summer...