Word: successes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...author feels that the future of parliamentary democracies rests with the success of their efforts to "salvage a limited degree of laissez-faire and to combine it with the management by the state of some elements of the economy." England has been aided in this effort by "the existence of a generation of industrialists who long ago accepted the principle of collective bargaining. . . by the existence of labor leaders who have accepted the principle of national responsibility...
That tests, like men, are fallible Dr. Thorndike readily admits, but they are better than guesses. His colleagues have often questioned his evidence but rarely with any success his conclusions. When Thorndike declared that "satisfiers'' (such as a reward of food) made animals remember the correct acts and thus aided their learning, and that "annoyers" retarded their learning, his contemporaries were skeptical. But many years later Thorndike confirmed his theory of the effect of rewards on learning with what he regards as his most remarkable and conclusive experiment. This was the "spread and scatter" phenomenon. Students who answered...
...Doubleday, Doran & Co. in July by Max Annenberg, a $125,000-a-year circulation director of the nation's best-selling daily, the tabloid New York News. The blustering Max Annenberg charged that a Rascoe autobiography. Before I Forget, which called Annenberg "a burly barbarian, endeavoring with conspicuous success to live down his reputation as a roughneck," maliciously defamed "a forthright, honest and faithful citizen [Annenberg] . . . always reputed, esteemed and accepted by and among all his neighbors...
Sharing credit with Wynn for the show's success is able Vincente Minnelli, trained in the hard school of movie stage-shows, who directed it and designed the scenery...
...under Hitz handling, it decided to give him control of other hotels it was stuck with in Depression. Created in 1932, therefore, was National Hotel Management Co., Inc. with Ralph Hitz as president. By 1937 N. H. M. was managing (not owning) eight hotels in seven cities* with a success that has made Ralph Hitz perhaps the most famed U. S. boniface. Last week, in connection with N. H. M.'s ninth hotel, Manhattan's Belmont Plaza, Ralph Hitz added to the Hitz legend...