Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...complaint said that the defendants had managed the sales of nearly 69% of some $20 billion worth of securities issued by the syndicate method (several houses working together) in the last ten years. They did so, the Government charged, by 1) eliminating competition among themselves; 2) preventing the use of competitive bidding for new issues; 3 ) influencing and controlling the corporations issuing securities; 4) concentrating the business in Manhattan; 5) promoting expansions, mergers, consolidations, etc., to drum up more investment business...
...Cantril and his associates for the past decade. After Gallup's first national poll in 1936 proved that the Literary Digest was wrong, the Cantril concept of small sampling polls as against mass surveys, now utterly beyond question, began to take shape in the development of the spot-check method...
Princetonians themselves will be the guinea pigs in specific researches coming up. But it will all go on in a quite and unobstrusive way. Since no recommendations concerning methods of instruction or other matters of educational policy lie within the scope of the project, fact-finding for its own sake will be the order of the day. The method of attack will consist in "critical objective analysis, proceeding a step at a time from the simple to the complex as results accumulate...
Rucker claims his "share the production" plan is a method of removing "any ceilings on the incomes of workers." He declined to elaborate on the methods of sharing the production of a plant with the workers in it, inviting the questioner to the T.O.U. office for further information...
...Minor political figures, as in the Washington Hollywood probe," elaborated Hooton, "try to capitalize on the publicity value of the personalities they examine at the expense of the public." He put himself on the record as opposed to Communism, but did not believe that "investigations" were the best method of registering opposition...