Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Berlin, Funnyman Wodehouse last week began to function as trained seal for the Nazis. In a deep chuckling tone, he described his internment as "an agreeable experience," recounted for short-wave listeners the details of his capture by the Germans. Typical whimsy: "The scene was not one of vulgar brawling. All that happened as far as I was concerned was I was strolling along with my wife one morning when she lowered her voice and said: 'Don't look now but here comes the German Army.' And there they were, a fine body of men, rather prettily...
...ever to function efficiently, it must work through committees of working businessmen (on priorities, inventory control, etc.). Many industries have such committees, but so far only in steel, oil and the electric-supply industries have such committees any close tie with OPM. This week, to organize and deal with these industry committees, OPM named no industrialist, but small, gossipy Sidney James Weinberg, partner-on-leave from Goldman, Sachs & Co., some of whose friends call him Wall Street's Walter Winchell...
...second manifestation of Knox logic. If the Government has declared war, it may have military reasons for suppressing the news of a particular action. But in a democracy the people are presumably entitled to know when the shooting starts, particularly if the Government has not told them, and the function of a free, critical and informative press is to safeguard democracy by seeing that the people hear what they are entitled to know...
...these isms, says Author Barzun, people learned that "the riddle of the Sphinx had been solved." The solution might be a little technical and complicated. "Yet at bottom lay a simple principle" - the survival of the fittest, the theory of value and surplus value, the leitmotiv and its function. "The public could thus enjoy the double pleasure of simpleness and profundity. . . . Physical struggle led to survival, physical labor to value, physical object to musical theme, and at the end each system yielded the most exalted objects of contemplation; the adaptation of living forms; a perfect state, a religion...
There the National Defense Mediation Board had stepped into a three-weeks-old dispute that was blocking production of lumber needed in defense building. The board, taking on a new function, had appointed itself a fact-finding commission, and a panel which included labor's own representation had made public recommendations for a settlement of wage demands and grievances. But delegates of the striking C.I.O. woodworkers rejected the board's formula. At week's end no trees fell in the forests of the Northwest...