Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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With the idea and two assistants he started a $100,000 company to buy receivable accounts of manufacturers and wholesalers. The next step was to buy receivables of merchants covering their instalment sales. With it has grown instalment selling, which is estimated to involve several billion dollars a year. Ably Mr. Ittleson will argue that the growth in instalment selling has been only the increasing demand for new modern appliances- that previously instalment selling was restricted to such things as homes, chiefly because they were the only expensive products in demand. Without instalment selling, he can show, there would...
...promote the progress of a boy; where classrooms may be free from the formal ranks of desks fastened to the floor and made more appealing with chairs and tables; where the bright as well as the slower student can advance without the hindrance of a lock-step regimentation. . . . You may call it 'Progressive Education' if you wish-I don't care...
Proud indeed last week were followers of Nicholas Constantinovich Roerich, painter-explorer-mystic. In the 24-story apartment-house-museum which his disciples have built for him on upper Riverside Drive, Manhattan, there was happy talk about the Master's latest step in his mission of Unifying Humanity Through Art. From Roerich in Paris had come a cable saying that the League of Nations' International Commission of Intellectual Cooperation (TIME, Aug. 4) had endorsed an international convention suggested by him to ensure Art's neutrality and safety in wartime. The "Roerich Pact" was drawn...
Erection of a new penitentiary is the first step in President Hoover's prison-reform program, supported by Congress (TIME, July 14). Next structural step: site-selection and construction of a reformatory for men "west of the Mississippi River...
...days of fun preceded the test. The boys were shown through the Edison laboratories, shook hands with Henry Ford, Harvey Samuel Firestone, Lewis Perry (principal of Phillips Exeter Academy), Hubert S. Howe (Columbia neurologist), William Lowe Bryan (President of Indiana University). During this ceremony each boy was permitted to step up to a microphone and speak his name and State. There was a banquet at which they formally met last year's winner, Wilber Brotherton Huston of Olympia, Wash., M. I. T. sophomore. There was also a dance to which the Edisons invited 52 of New Jersey...