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...prejudices. ¶ To act rather than decide. ¶ To disregard jurisdictional limits. ¶ To do what will get by. ¶ To rule arbitrarily-or at the other extreme, to fall into a perfunctory routine. ¶ To exercise of jurisdiction by deputies. ¶ To mix up the advocate's function, the judge's function and the enforcement function...
...Stanford White, all this would have been no particular commendation of Albert Kahn as an architect. But young architects today have heard and understood Le Corbusier's definition of a house as a "machine for living," Frank Lloyd Wright's statement that in ideal architecture "form and function are one." Lately, to his great surprise, indefatigable Albert Kahn has discovered that the industrial buildings he has been designing all these years are "modern architecture." To show how essentially modern they are, in logic, economy, and use of steel and glass, THE ARCHITECTURAL FORUM this week devotes its August...
...cold. By repetitions of this cycle, Dr. Giauque (pronounced gee-oke) has reached one-tenth of one degree above absolute zero. This is the U. S. cryogenic record. Since no imaginable thermometer could record such cold, it is calculated by the Curie law which gives magnetic susceptibility as a function of temperature...
...defined by Promoter Knoble's smoothly professional copy, function of the Alliance is first to collect information about the problems of the middle class and then to DO SOMETHING. What Cliff Knoble proposed to do, first for Detroit and then for other localities, he did not make clear. But the things about which he proposed to do something were made plain: 1) taxes, State and Federal; 2) labor disputes. Major emphasis was on taxation (in an M. C. A. pamphlet, eight of 15 listed objectives deal with reducing Michigan and Federal taxes and expenditures). Excerpts...
...ordinary workmen, Hollywood screenwriters compare in rarity and price as a window full of diamonds compares to a coal bin: only about 350 screenwriters function at any time; their wages are $150 to $5,000 a week. But they enjoy labor troubles in proportion to their pay. The National Labor Relations Board last week had to hold an election to find out which of two major screenwriting labor organizations, that for two years had bickered with each other, shall henceforth undertake the eternal bickering that goes on between screenwriters and producers...