Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germany has the kind of leadership she wants. So have we (God help us). England had the kind she wanted in Chamberlain and now she has what she wants in Churchill. The people, not the times, are pregnant and produce their man. The times simply perform the male function...
...290th Commencement of Harvard's 305th year on Thursday, June 19, as the climax of a week full of the activities connected with the closing of the College year. President Conant's Raccalaureate Sermon on Sunday, June 15, signifies the opening of the week, and the last official function occurs the following Friday with the meeting of the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa...
...still the fourth estate; it is almost a fourth branch of government. It is not, as in Germany or the U.S.S.R., a branch of the government, .but a part of our constitutional system. It is impossible to imagine governmental processes in the U.S. without a press. Its first function is to inform, its second to criticize. Censorship is a direct threat to both functions and hence a direct threat to effective democracy...
...Suggestions from Davis were that the Board be given the power to pick its own cases, that the Government quit giving defense contracts to manufacturers who have no collective bargaining agreements with their employes. Other suggestions: enlarge the Board, or create regional boards and let the overworked Dykstra Board function as a final supreme court in labor squabbles...
...relative strength of the two groups in a period of social change, Burnham implies in two casually grim sentences: "The position, role and function of the managers are in no way dependent upon the maintenance of capitalist property and economic relations (even if many of the managers themselves think so); they depend upon the technical nature of ... modern production." "The position, role and function of the most privileged of all groups, the finance-capitalists, are, however, entirely bound up with capitalist property and economic relations...