Word: function
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Before the Soviet power can fulfill its function it must be established throughout the world-that is what it was born for!" declared Stalin's Stetsky, "Our country is the shock brigade of the World Proletariat. We will continue to fight as a Proletarian Dictatorship for the World Revolution...
Sniffed Toronto's loyalist Mail and Empire: ''There is more than a suspicion that Toronto society doesn't care a particle whether there is a Speaker's tea or a Lieutenant Governor's dinner or any other social function up around the Parliament Buildings. The folks who come from 'the back concessions' and those who hope that some day they may come are much more likely to be disappointed than anybody in Toronto. They want to be noticed. Their friends back home expect them to be noticed. Sometimes the friends back home...
...opinion of Federal Judge William Irwin Grubb of Alabama, the Government has no right to engage in the power business except to dispose of a surplus incidental to the exercise of some other Constitutional function. So said the wiry little septuagenarian jurist last autumn during the legal preliminaries of an injunction suit to restrain the Tennessee Valley Authority from buying private Alabama power properties (TIME...
...elections of next year's officers for the Instrumental Clubs last night, a new office, that of Freshman Representative, has been instituted. The officer will help in selecting members of the Clubs from the Freshman class. While this officer is a Freshman when appointed, he will not exercise his function until his Sophomore year...
Thus, one is again forced to the conclusion that the Republican Party is nothing but an uncritical headless opposition. With no principles to guide it, and no leader to enforce them, it has been unable to adapt itself as a critical anti-administration party. This function, intelligently performed, is as essential to the efficient operation of our two-party democracy as able leadership by the group in power. Unless it can show its usefulness, which entails a complete reorganization, the Republican Party is doomed to oblivion...