Word: basic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...River Rouge plant remains unorganized, has not been able to avoid all contact with organized labor. As local unions of the United Automobile Workers of America established contact with Ford management in regional assembly plants, potent Personnel Director Harry H. Bennett announced in Detroit that Ford's basic labor policy had not changed. Last week Mr. Bennett had occasion to say this again...
...Harlem were "marvelous," but that "jeeterbogs" were an unmitigated nuisance. He further concluded that a concert of jazz music was a "seely idea," that the rising generation of "cats" are mere kittens compared with the classic Louis Armstrong, "Bix" Beiderbecke and "Fots Wallair." His present favorites: Count Basic at the Famous Door, Sidney Bechet and Zutie Singleton, whose jamming is a nightly feature at Nick's Tavern, Manhattan...
...must have a planned economy it must be planned by public authority, but perhaps it is not necessary to have it at all. Perhaps we can still find a formula which, in the basic industries at least, will eliminate the evils of destructive competition while securing an adjustment that may be expected to stabilize employment and mass purchasing power. The search for such a rule is the task which has been committed to the Temporary National Economic Committee...
...exhibit has the double purpose of explaining through models, drawings and photographs modern architecture to the lay public, and presenting to the profession a "basic suggestion" for training architects in this new field, according to Walter F. Bogner, associate professor of architecture, who supervised the display. As yet there is no generally accepted plan for the teaching of architectural design from the modern point of view, he said...
...exhibition has been prepared because, due to changes in architectural education throughout the country, no generally accepted system for the teaching of architectural design from the modern point of view has established itself as yet. The system displayed is offered as a basic suggestion to the architectural profession and the architectural schools of the country and as a report of one experience in teaching modern architecture. It can be seen that this is not a way to destroy the past for the sake of building something new in its place but a method that aims to utilize all experience gathered...