Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...still was assumed more project much as reduction of the British war debt from about $4,000,000,000 to around $2,500,000,000, will be examined before the June payment method is determined. Such a cut in the debt might be arranged by exacting repayment only of the capital borrowed, plus a very small interest rate on lines of the United States Italy funding agreement...
...Japanese militarists realized what was brewing. Conspirators Saito and Saionjii knew that fundamentally Minister Hirota is as ardent a nationalist as any Black Dragon could wish, but they hoped & prayed that his long service in the diplomatic corps would make him more discreet and softspoken. Minister Hirota's method of being discreet and soft-spoken while carrying on Japan's policy of expansion is to supply the words and let anonymous spokesmen voice them. Last week excitable Tokyo papers were demanding the resignation of his best-known, obedient Eiji Amau...
...Crime Doctor (RKO-Radio) is suave Otto Kruger. As a famed criminologist, he plans and executes the "Perfect Crime" to avenge his wife's infidelity. His method: 1) A pretty blackmailer (Judith Wood) is planted as a spy in an apartment adjoining that of his wife's lover (Nils Asther); 2) Kruger steals a pistol from Asther's apartment; 3) he makes the blonde blackmailer write Asther a threatening letter; 4) he kills her with Asther's gun; 5) he plants the blackmail letter in the fireplace as a clue...
Harvard lost plenty of ground in the Eastern Intercollegiate baseball League by not playing Saturday. Columbia smacked out a double win over Dartmouth and Cornell humbled Yale. By that method. Cornell kept its grip on the leadership and Pennsylvania moved into second place...
...most serious doubts as to the practicability of a compensatory economy must come when we consider our present democracy. Under popular rule the assumption is that the government should be governed by popular opinion. But the compensatory method of control requires that the state shall act almost continually in opposition to the will of the majority. Such a system is as incompatible with our popular democracy as is communism or socialism, but it is the only assurance that the transient majority will not injure the permanent interests of the nation...