Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Allen, supervising agent of District No. 1 of the secret service, explained Parkhurst's method in check cashing last night. His forged checks were always endorsed in pen and ink, frequently under the alias-signature "John F. Lyons...
...technique used involved a specially contrived hocked instrument, which "fished" the $90 note out through the slit. This method, he conjectured, would be particularly effective if the check rested on a stack of Christmas cards and other uncollected Yuletide communications...
...everything from the Gare du Nord to the Himalayas right in Hollywood,* Producer de Rochemont is plugging for the revolutionary theory that everything-rooms, street scenes, shipyards, etc.-should be shot on the actual spot and not on phony sets. Some experts do not agree that the De Rochemont method saves any money, but there is no argument that his scenes have a look of reality seldom reproduced by a studio backdrop...
Gene Talmadge's death set off one of the biggest, oddest political rows in U.S. history. The new Georgia constitution provided no clear-cut method of determining his successor. Backers of incumbent Governor Arnall believed that he should continue in office, even though he was constitutionally barred from a second candidacy, and had not run in 1946. Others wanted the General Assembly to choose between the two highest general election write-in candidates: James V. Carmichael and Talmadge's son, Herman (pronounced Hummon to rhyme with summon). Still others tried to make a case for M. E. Thompson...
...test is not infallible. But on the basis of tests with serum from 75 patients, Roskin thinks his method shows great promise, not only of detecting cancer early, but of identifying cancer type...