Word: retreatant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Publisher Stern was bustling into New York last week, the Curtis retreat from Manhattan was having significant consequences in Philadelphia. There has always been a polite family feud between John Charles Martin and the other Curtis heirs who run the profitable Satevepost and the Ladies' Home Journal. Last week Publisher Martin resigned from the directorate of Curtis Publishing Co. to devote himself exclusively to the Curtis-Martin Morning and Evening Ledgers and the Inquirer, his three remaining papers...
...system of grading and examining is entirely alien to the spirit and purpose of tutorial work. The tutorial system was set up in the belief that coercion and tangible reward were unnecessary, and that there was such a thing as study for the sake of knowledge alone. Any retreat to systems of grades and examinations is a tacit admission of defeat in this high purpose. Before that admission is made, a more restricted system of tutorial work ought to be tried...
...been to throw one more unnecessary shiver into the already tremulous limbs of the banking fraternity. And now Roosevelt has advised that revisions be made to alter the psychological impasse thus created by removing much of the stringency attached to the administration of the Act. If this tactical retreat does not achieve the end it seeks--the inducement of more credit into active employment--then the bankers may shiver the more and with better reason, as it is unlikely that Roosevelt will again treat their feelings with such sweet regard...
...Adoption of a high tariff and embargo policy to correct Turkey's unfavorable trade balance. Successful retreat into economic nationalism...
...licensing system because a) it does not eliminate the profit motive; b) such systems invariably get mixed up with politics; c) licensed traders are not interested in curbing overindulgence and drunkenness; d) once the system is in force and capital is invested in licensed property there is no retreat. When the W. C. T. U. read the Rockefeller plan, it snorted. In a sarcastic bulletin from Evanston headquarters it recalled that taking the profit out of liquor had been advocated 40 years ago by the trustbusting, anticapitalistic Populist Party. Said the W. C. T. U.: "The Populists were looked upon...