Word: basically
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Institute. The book is a thoroughgoing survey of church federations of 24 cities and two States. The federations had asked the Institute to inspect their condition. Dr. Douglass found their condition unsatisfactory. After more than 20 years activities there is a "general avoidance of any attempt to find a basic philosophical and religious ground-work" for the federation movement. As a rule worshippers are more willing than ministers to cooperate in federations. The clergy "are afraid of the warm-hearted irresponsibility of their lay constituents-perhaps also of their own better natures." It was to ferret out the cause...
...separate issue officially came to a close last spring when the University authorities announced a thorough investigation of the whole employment problem. Until some report of this survey is made public, it is unlikely that any further publicity about the scrubwomen can contribute towards the solution of the basic issue involved...
...referred is Edward C. Finney, now the Department's solicitor, formerly (1921-29) Assistant Secretary, the man who saw nothing wrong when the Elk Hills and Teapot Dome scandals were in the making, the man most directly attacked by the Kelley charges. In 1928, Mr. Finney wrote the basic decision which Kelley protested as nullifying the "discovery" provision of the old mining laws and thereby validating countless paper claims of oil companies to shale lands. Mr. Finney was accused of brushing aside as "very embarrassing" certain geological evidence brought him by Chief Kelley which would have upset his ruling...
Giving a reverse twist to the same basic idea, Kroger Grocery & Baking Co. (5,200 stores in the midwest) approached publishers last year with the proposal: "The average chain grocery is handier to the home than the average drug store. Why not sell through us?" Alert Editor George Horace Lorimer promptly seized upon the plan for Curtis Publishing Co. Last February, Saturday Evening Post and Ladies' Home Journal were on sale in a few Kroger stores; last week in 1,459; next month in 350 more. Each magazine is rolled inside a wrapper bearing the Kroger name...
Beneath Gray's prosperity lie basic patents for pay telephone equipment, of which it is the sole manufacturer. Western Electric Co. Inc., takes the entire output, keeps Gray's plant running at capacity. A subsidiary makes locks for metres and metal manufacturers, but the telephone equipment is the major money maker...