Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whether the placing of Huey Long's picture on the front cover of TIME'S April 1 number was by design or otherwise I wish to extend to you my congratulations. Argument avails nothing with this type of demagog, so one is driven to resort to the method you have so ably used here in meeting their libelous attacks that of holding them out to the public as plain fools...
...timid to arraign Germany by name before the League, the Conference shoved off that duty upon France (see p. 20) but vented its feelings thus: "It was regretfully recognized that the method of unilateral repudiation of the Treaty of Versailles] adopted by the German Government, at a moment when steps were being taken to promote a freely negotiated settlement of the question of armaments, had undermined public confidence in security of a peaceful order. Moreover the magnitude of the declared program of German rearmament, already well in the process of execution, had invalidated the quantitative assumptions on which efforts...
...worse than the last dust storm because it covered the whole country. Some men thought that they could make money out of handwriting, and they published copybooks with a stylized, vertical Germanic script, which were adopted in every school in the country. Every teacher had to learn the method, which consisted of slow, laborious finger movements. It used to take a child half an hour to write the same amount that he can now put out in three minutes...
...power rates were Premier Hepburn's excuse for tearing up Hydro's contracts. If Hydro lived up to them, it would have to boost rates to carry the costs of the power it cannot sell. Since someone must hold the bag and there was no visible method of passing it to the opposition, the Premier decided that it should be held by the securities holders of the private companies...
...whole thing a case of spite work instigated by discharged employes and disgruntled dealers. And he cracked back at a group of Chicago distributors with an injunction restraining their anti-Andrews activities. In Detroit, in a lightning move, he dismissed all office employes, "executive and otherwise," by the simple method of bolting the Hupp doors one morning last week before the employes turned up for work...