Word: taylorisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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More than 500 authors and publicists. Last fortnight the Democrats announced an Authors' Committee of 149 names, including Sherwood Anderson, H. L. Mencken, Rupert Hughes, Anita Loos, John Erskine, Finley Peter Dunne, George S. Kaufman, Laurence Stallings, Deems Taylor, etc., etc. (TIME, Sept. 24). The G. O. P. list was by far the bestseller. It included Zane Grey, Harold Bell Wright, Kathleen Norris, Edward W. Bok, Bruce Barton, Earl Derr Biggers, Will Durant, Albert W. Atwood, Robert W. Chambers, Booth Tarkington, Thomas L. Masson, Hermann Hagedorn, Vernon Kellogg, Daniel Frohman, Don Marquis. The last, an oldtime Democrat, author...
Rubber Jerry Luvadis, Announcer Joe Humphreys and Estelle Taylor, who in comparatively private life is Mrs. Jack Dempsey, also appear in roles which approximate their normal occupations. Mrs. Dempsey is not, as commonly supposed, a star entirely of the screen; in her early youth an invalid, she grew up to be first a beauty-contest winner, then an actress in stock companies as well as the cinema. She and her husband both speak their lines in The Big Fight in a curious but not unattractive monotone...
...Mercantile Corp. won the non and lucrative U. S. stamped envelope contract, making a tidy profit for Stockholder Myron Charles Taylor, now a potent U. S. Steel executive.* Not until 1917 was the contract wrested away from the Mercantile Corp. In that year, the Middle West Supply Co. submitted low bid. And as this contract is not transferable, the only way for the Mercantile Corp. and Stockholder Taylor to regain it was to buy the Middle West Supply Co. This they did. They were not again disturbed in its possession until last week...
Henry Smith Thompson '99 has been renominated as president of the Cooperative Society, while Austin Wakeman Scott LL. B. '09, Walter Humphreys and J. L. Taylor have been renominated for the positions of Vice-president, secretary and treasurer respectively...
Nine years ago President Henry Sturgis Dennison decided that the time had come to set up some sort of health supervision for his 130 major and minor executives. He is a paternalistic employer. He put in the Taylor System of scientific management in his Framingham factories; he started a profit-sharing system, through which the employes now own a good third of the company's stock...