Word: function
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...news analyst should broadcast without editorial supervision of his script. . . . The analyst's function is to help the listener to understand, to weigh and to judge, but not to do the judging for him. . . . The public interest cannot be served in radio by giving selected news analysts ... a preferred and one-sided position in the realm of public controversy...
...United Nations took an unspectacular-but probably far-reaching-step toward postwar cooperation last week. They prepared to set up the first international executive agency to function in World War II: a United Nations Relief & Rehabilitation Administration to feed and clothe the people liberated by the advancing United Nations armies...
This, according to Jerry Voorhis, is all wrong, not because it is highly inflationary-the conventional reason-but because the issue of new money should not be a private banking function at all. Nor should the issue of new money involve the creation of debt. If the Government has to have more money over & above what it raises in taxes, it should be able to create it free of charge. This might be done, Reformer Voorhis suggests, by the Government's taking over the Federal Reserve System, creating out of it a super-monetary authority, and giving this authority...
...sticky atmosphere, in which anything could happen, cleared suddenly. The impossible became a fact. After three hours behind closed doors, the seven conferees announced that the French Committee of National Liberation had begun to function. By week's end it was clear that De Gaullism would dominate the central power. Peyrouton was replaced by General Catroux. Notorious ex-Vichyite General Auguste Noguès (he had opposed the U.S. landing at Casablanca) stepped out as Resident General of Morocco. The purging process, first of many hard tasks before the new France, had begun. This week, the seven-man committee...
...first two of these elements served a policing function: the British Navy kept war lords within bounds, gold taught finance ministers discretion. The Navy, through its support of constituted authority and lawful procedure, was usually successful in preventing the seizure or destruction of property by rioters, revolutionaries, or plain bandits and pirates. Supplementing this strong arm was the practice of extraterritoriality : the setting up of courts to administer British law so that entrepreneurs might be spared the more extreme abuses of the local legal apparatus. Law backed by force made the Pax Britannica the assurance of peace and fair play...