Word: mutuals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arranged in order of preference). One might also mention the "social" clubs which for many constitute an absorbing interest. To members these represent excellent opportunities for making lasting friendships and associating with others having the same thing in common. To those on the outside the clubs may appear as mutual backslapping societies organized to protect the congenitally incompetent from their intellectual superiors. There are the kindred activities of house committees and class politics, engrossing but perhaps meaningless because of disuse...
About 1810 the Rev. Henry Duncan of Ruthwell, Scotland became worried by the thriftlessness of his parishioners. Persuading them to bring their surplus pennies to the manse each week, he finally hit on the idea of a mutual savings bank. The bank belonged to depositors; there were no stockholders. Long regarded as an excellent means of making the poor help themselves, mutual savings banks rooted quickly in the U. S., but never firmly either south of the Potomac or west of the Alleghenies. In those regions the poor either stayed poor or relied on stock savings banks, commercial banks...
...York savings bankers were quick to point out that these were no emergency agencies but permanent central banks for which they have drummed since 1925. But State Banking Superintendent Broderick bluntly observed: "The mutual savings banks . . . for the first time in their history have access to the resources of the Federal Government." With his banks in an impregnable position, he promised promptly to remove all withdrawal restrictions in force since March. Withdrawal limit is now $250 per week with exceptions for emergencies including vacations...
...member of Section K (Sociology) of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Last week a fellow member, the University of Indiana's Charles R. Metzger, trotted out one of the Lindseyan formulas, with a few-new furbelows but apparently identical in substance. He recommended divorce by mutual consent for couples who cannot be reconciled. Legalization of such divorces, stated Professor Metzger. would end "much subterfuge and perjury which is now prevalent in every divorce court in the United States." He said his plan had nothing to do with Judge Lindsey's "companionate" marriage, but Judge Lindsey...
...stayed with their companies (and joined Drug Inc.'s directorate), was that they knew best how to operate their own companies. Drug Inc. was to become an all-star team of drug manufacturers each continuing to play with all the skill that had made him a star-and mutual support was to make them better than ever. Last week's decision meant but one thing: that mutual support was no longer considered as great an asset as independence. To begin with, United Drug's chain-store profits have long since vanished , principally because of the effect...