Word: ward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...summer in Chicago's Union League Club (TIME, Sept. 23). On the extreme Left is the Methodist Federation for Social Service, whose guiding spirits are its big, shrewd, sarcastic president, Bishop Francis John McConnell of New York, and its wiry lit tle British-born secretary, Professor Harry Frederick Ward of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary. For 29 years the Federation has sniped at Capitalism with out attracting much attention. Last week, however, Hearstpapers were headlining PURGE OF PULPIT REDS DEMANDED as 75 members of the Federation sat down to a preConference meeting in Columbus. Conscious of suc cess...
...give you an inside picture of a man who gets $100,000 a year," exploded Montgomery Ward's President Sewell Avery last week at the company's annual meeting. "You shareholders turn over to me 100,000 cold dollars, which in your language is a hell of a lot. The income tax reduced it by about $70,000. If I were to save all that is left and the inevitable should come, the inheritance tax would be applied and I would leave my heirs an estate of something over $12,000. "Now, damn you, am I getting...
During this year Dr. Bock has instituted the policy of moving any serious cases into Boston hospitals. When this is done, the expenses for two weeks of ward care are paid by the Department. This winter 12 men have had appendix operations in the system and have not been required to pay more than a small fee for operating room expenses, and other cases have been treated free in metropolitan hospitals, through application of special funds...
GOLDEN PEACOCK-Gertrude Atherton -Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). An entertaining account of intrigue and adventure among the ruling cliques of Augustan Rome. The story, told by Pomponia, irrepressible ward of the poet Horace, manages to be more convincing than many a modern yarn...
...thin, wiry lowan of 49, U. S. Commissioner of Education John Ward Studebaker points with pride to the Public Forums, modeled after the oldtime New England town meeting, he ran three years ago as Des Moines' Superintendent of Schools. Adult education is Commissioner Studebaker's strongest interest, and he believes that public discussion is the foundation of any adult program. Last week in a little book called Plain Talk,* he wistfully told what he would do if the U. S. Government were to allot him $70,000,000 for experimental purposes. He would train 10,000 forum leaders...