Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although efforts and laws have been made to effect such restrictions, this rather obvious method of making the machine gun robbery more difficult has never successfully been followed up. In spite of the smuggling of such weapons that is bound to result, a concerted drive by government and state officials on checking up sales, licensing, and running down these arms, would not, at this point, be untimely...
...this method the artist knows pretty well in advance of the season about how much his gross income will be and on the basis of such calculations he incurs obligations and budgets his own financial commitments for business expenses and otherwise. This plan contemplates that local managers become entrepreneurs. They attend to all the necessary local arrangements, sell the tickets and keep the receipts over and above their expenses. They engage in business for profit...
...President was just ending when the New York Stock Exchange was founded under the buttonwood tree in Wall Street in 1792. No broker ever became President and few much of anything else. But in the last 142 years the members of the Stock Exchange have perfected a method of buying & selling securities which functions with mathematical precision and a code of financial conduct which is the highest in the world. Its 1,375 members, the best-dressed group of men in the U. S., have conferred on their officials absolute and arbitrary powers. The governors of the New York Stock...
...concern of government. The machine age has permanently changed our obligations. There can now be no doubt that those who find themselves, through no fault of their own, displaced in recurring periods of depression must be provided for by Government, with funds raised from the taxpayers. If no better method can be thought of, we are constrained to resort to the dole. But should not every effort be made to avoid this demoralizing form of public charity? The people of Massachusetts are willing to contribute to any stricken section of the country; but is there no limit...
...natural revulsion from the excessive regulation of the Prohibition era. In view, however, of the conditions that have prevailed during the last few months, I think that this attitude must be altered, and it must be admitted that what is needed is a maximum of stringent regulation. The ideal method, of course, would be to have the Federal government in complete control; for the machinery is ready in the form of the Code Authority, and national regulation would be both more effective and efficient than that of the states. That Mr. Roosevelt has not done this before...