Word: methods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...necessary to have Rotary Clubs, Elks, Boy Scouts, Better Voters' Leagues, come and sit on the lawn. Then the officeholder or office-seeker would make a speech to them which would be broadcast through the land. But this summer, Mr. Coolidge has hit upon a new method of influencing the public-and a clever one too. His scheme has two essentials...
Entertaining indeed, this South Carolina political system. Of course, there is but one party- Democratic; and the State Democratic Committee controls the entire procedure, pays all bills, arranges speaking programs, allots expenses on a pro-rata basis. Aspirants speak seriatim the same night in the same place, a method obviously conducive to personalities and retorts discourteous. In this "joint debate" system the old-style ranters of the Dial-Blease ilk rave, rage, fume, spume, howl- over imaginary issues. Under these conditions Washington really expects long-haired sombreroed political buffoons-and that is just what Washington sometimes gets, although Senator Smith...
...more alert of the Cleveland citizenry know that Dr. George Washington Crile is one of the great men of surgery. They know that his method of blocking nerves to prevent the shock of operations (anoci-association) is as great a landmark in medicine as the first application of anesthetics, that he has improved the method of transfusing blood; that he is a world authority on goiter, that at his Cleveland Clinic they may get a physical examination of scholarly exactitude. Very few know that he and his associates have performed 2,670 experiments on animals, including man, and made countless...
...omened effects of secret treaty-making were demonstrated again last week by a flood of rumors containing dire hints of secret "war clauses." Though everyone knows that secrecy between nations breeds misunderstandings and wars, the Fascist Tribuna declared in an exultant editorial: "Following the good old method of secret diplomacy, a solid contribution to post-war European pacification has been achieved...
...Describe the Farrow method of recalling things that happened to you as a child of 6 months...