Word: movement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...steel, aluminum and other corporations-has repeatedly-failed to arouse major excitement for the simple reason that only alarmists have bothered to question Mr. Mellon's integrity. Mr. Mellon's spokesmen in the Senate let the McKellar resolution go through with patient annoyance. They expected the ouster movement would die a quiet death when the Judiciary Committee reports. For ten minutes during this brief session of the Senate, Vice President Curtis presided for the first time in his new capacity. He rapped with his gavel so often and so lustily that Senators began to grumble, to wonder whether...
...book proposes the next step in human progress. Mr. Denison realizes, with the late J. B. Bury, that to understand the causes of civilization and to direct its future development, the laws of its past movement must be ascertained from history with scientific precision. Assuming that civilization always depends on communal effort, the author argues that emotion is the only nexus powerful enough to hold men together. The emotions that have united human societies in the past he analyzes into two categories: patriarchal, which makes for perpendicular ordering of individuals as in the Roman Catholic Church; and fratriarchal, or horizontal...
Finally, Editor Kendall put Advertising & Selling back of the anti-testimonial movement with an editorial cheering for the Hollister suggestion that high grade publishers should ban the bought testimonial...
...Baker, board chairman of First National, is said to hold 20,000 shares (there are only 100,000 outstanding) the 1,200-point rise gave him a paper profit of 24 million dollars. Meanwhile shares in Chase, Equitable, and many another Manhattan bank also enjoyed sensational rises. The bull movement in bank stocks was based on the official ratification of the Guaranty Trust Co.-National Bank of Commerce merger (TIME, March 4) and the resultant activity of rumor-spreaders who busily reasserted and consolidated Manhattan's banking...
...Hadden Jr. and the present Mrs. William P. Pool. Banker Crowell Hadden, 88, is his grandfather. He went to the Hotchkiss School and Yale University (class of 1920). He edited both the school and college newspapers. During the War he was a leader in the R. 0. T. C. movement. Intense in all things, he had his hair close-cropped as an example in military efficiency to the battery of which he was ist Sergeant. The moment the age-limit was lowered to permit it, he was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, Field Artillery...