Word: function
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...status of the National Council of Resistance. Now that the underground fight is over, the C.N.R. is struggling to assume a new function. Its Communist steering group wants it to become a kind of council of state, a watchdog to keep France on the path of social reform. The Government wants C.N.R. energies to be absorbed by the Assembly. ¶ The tension between the Provisional Government and the Communists. By disbanding the leftist Patriotic Militia, Charles de Gaulle had openly clashed with them (TIME, Nov. 13). Now he offered them a sizable sop. By special decree his Government pardoned Maurice...
...eight-man Committee, which will include two men each from Adams, Lowell, Standish, and the Navy group of Freshmen. Sometime in February it is expected that a permanent Class Committee will be elected, with a vote for temporary officers set for early in the summer. The Affairs Committee will function only until the Permanent Class Committee is elected in February...
Also moving out of University Hall are the Information and News Offices which go from the basement level to Weld's ground floor, and the Student Employment Office which is to adjoin them. As the Alumni Placement Bureau again commences to function, it will find a place in the remodeled Weld first floor, while the Committee on War Service Credit and Associate Professor Payson S. Wild's newly established Office of the Counsellor for Veterans move there as soon as possible...
...from its birth FEA's history has been one of dictation, though necessarily so because of its war function. It has dictated to private traders when & where they may ship their goods; it buys and stockpiles the millions of tons of strategic raw materials needed by the United Nations. This has given rise to some fears among private traders that FEA will not hurriedly cease its dictation. On this, the President wrote : "The Government should assist to the extent necessary to achieve this objective by returning commerce to private lanes as rapidly as possible." This indefinite promise alone stands...
...YOUR OTHERWISE HANDSOME WORDS ON ME, YOU INDIRECTLY QUOTED ME AS COMMENTING THAT A DIRECTOR'S CHIEF FUNCTION IS TO STAY ON THE SET TO SEE THAT THE ACTORS DON'T GO HOME TOO EARLY (TIME, SEPT. 18). I DID MAKE THIS STATEMENT REGARDING ONE DIRECTOR IN PARTICULAR, BUT ITS USE IN YOUR STORY AS A GENERALITY HAS CAUSED ME MUCH EMBARRASSMENT AND DISCOMFORT. WOULD IT BE POSSIBLE FOR YOU TO PUBLISH THIS TO MAKE IT CLEAR THAT THIS DISPARAGEMENT APPLIED ONLY TO ONE MAN, WHOSE NAME AND ADDRESS I WILL SUPPLY AT THE DROP...