Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Federal Reserve System to enter the open market and buy up to $3,000,000,000 worth of U. S. securities. With the purchase money commercial banks would expand credit to their customers, help industry and business to get started again. Last year President Hoover tried this method of credit inflation to the tune of nearly $1,000,000,000. It did not succeed because the period was one of liquidation. Now that pressure has been relaxed, if not definitely reversed, President Roosevelt believes that with a strong and sympathetic man at the handle, he can make the Reserve credit...
...position of Adviser in Religion should certainly have been considered; assistance and advice should have been given publicly in deciding on the policy of distributing Freshmen in the Houses; and finally, the Council ought definitely to take a stand on what it considers to be the most satisfactory method of balancing the H.A.A. budget for the coming year. By meeting these problems and many others the Council might approach a fulfillment of the ends for which it was created, but in order to do so, it must at once reorganize its mode of procedure, expand, and open its actions fully...
...Tennessee Shad once used beer for Welsh rabbits, were unanimously excited by Crusader Clark's earnest explanation of the need for repealing the 18th Amendment and for "strict control of the liquor traffic," the evening's results were 100%. Dr. Abbott formed the First Battalion by a method which should prove useful in other schools. He said that those boys who did not wish to join might leave the auditorium. All remained, signed cards, agreed to pay 50? and receive a button. Then the seniors retired to Dr. Abbott's study and elected the First Battalion...
...Hemingray Glass Co. of Muncie. Ind. and also O'Neill Machine Co. of Toledo, maker of glass blowing machinery, adding to Owens-Illinois' large and ancient holdings of glass machinery patents. Last week up & coming Mr. Levis also announced another development: discovery by Owens-Illinois of a method by which red, blue, green or orange trademarks of dairy companies can be fused directly into milk bottles. Buying into National Distillers Products gives Mr. Levis not only mastery of 40% of U. S. bottles but interest in a company which makes 40% of U. S. medicinal whiskey, which packs...
...sphere), his motto from Elizabethan John Marston ("O frantick, fond, pathetick passion! Is't possible such sensuall action should clip the wings of contemplation? . . . Fie, can our soule be underling to such a vile con-troule?") and his subject from everyday life (a deceived husband), yet his method is modern, cinematic, "stream-of-consciousness." Poet of involved psychological states, he is usually not at his best in the comparative bluntness of prose. And in modern poetry, which has come far from Robbie Burns, gutlessness may be an advantage; in novels, however, it is still a defect. Conrad Aiken...