Word: function
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hitler was badly hurt. His hearing apparently has been impaired permanently. . . . Since then he often loses his memory . . . for days is unable to function. . . . Occasionally he swoons. Frequently speech fails him. . . . He snaps out of his fits of despondency" when he is shown movies of the conspirators, hanging naked, "deriving [from them] a vicarious, sadistic satisfaction...
...important function of radio's own governing body, Adman Smith thinks, should be to plug radio itself, on the air, with commercials defending commercials. Sample Smith plug which an announcer might read with seductive fervor: "Friends, just take a moment and look around your home for the various items that have made your life easier, happier. . . . Dozens and dozens of these things, you'll find, were recommended to you over your radio. ... So today, let's tip our hats to radio's forgotten man-the radio advertiser...
...editor of the London Times H. de Vere Stacpoole wrote: "Sir: What are powerless politics, and how do they function and what do they...
...labor must learn is that it, too, as a private government, must eventually be regulated. But first Ruml foresees a "period of serious conflict" to which the present turmoil over the union shop is only the prelude. Philosopher Ruml, admitting that the labor union has a proper and necessary function, approves the principle of the union shop: "It seems inescapable that those who benefit [by union bargaining] may fairly be required to share the burden...
Down Taxes. Another basic principle set forth by Ruml is that business can function consistently at a high level of productivity and jobs only if the U.S. adopts the proper fiscal policy. This means that the chief instruments of fiscal policy, the U.S. budget and taxes, should be planned primarily with an eye to maintaining purchasing power and employment. In effect, the raising of revenue through taxes should be a secondary object...