Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week the unusually well-informed London Correspondent Augur* insisted that at Geneva last week Sir Samuel Hoare told Premier Laval that "the British Government was ready to admit that the [Anglo-German] naval pact, or rather the method of its conclusion, had been regrettable and would prefer that it had not happened." This extraordinary statement, though entirely undercut in British fashion by its qualifying clause, seemed to mark the first admission by His Majesty's Government that in countersigning Adolf Hitler they may have historically blundered. The air having been cleared by this revelation, the British and French Governments...
...while his resignation was rumored hourly and Royalist slogans appeared, "Vote For Georgios II, A Democratic King!" The Tsaldaris Cabinet announced it would hold a plebiscite Oct. 27 on a restoration of the Monarchy-provided, of course, that a settlement of the issue by the trusty and traditional Greek method of a coup d'état did not occur before then...
...industry sometimes appears to have taken its motto from the words of a song popular in the U. S. a year ago. ''Here Come the British with a Bang, Bang." The Thirty-Nine Steps is the most effective demonstration to date of Director Alfred Hitchcock's method of artful understatement and its success, which has already been sensational abroad, should be a lesson to his Hollywood imitators. The film is an adaptation of a novel written 20 years ago by John Buchan, now Lord Tweedsmuir, who next month will go to Canada as that Dominion...
...method of caring for individual case records has been changed with a view to avoiding delays, to provide for a follow-up system, and to enable the staff to know on short notice many important details of work done and being done...
Many people may object to some conclusion reached by this method but they will never doubt its honesty and none will find fault with the Harvard tradition as outlined last night by Mr. Conant. With such a foundation, construction cannot go far wrong. Surely, it was an auspicious meeting...