Word: function
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Summers of the House Judiciary Committee declared that Senate proceedings in the twelfth impeachment, of California's Federal Judge Harold Louderback in 1933, had been "the greatest farce ever presented." At one point 93 out of 96 Senators were absent from performance of their rarest and highest Constitutional function. Washington still believes that Judge Louderback was acquitted partly because many a Senator declined to vote guilty on evidence which he had not heard. Last week, stung by Chairman Summers' rebuke, 82 Senators were in their chairs when the Ritter trial began...
...planned on a long term basis, the W.P.A. could justify its existence on an economic as well as charitarian point of view, though it should of course be flexible enough to hire and discharge its employees as business conditions vary. In any event the workers' agitation serves a useful function in calling attention to the whole relief problem, and cannot be smoked out with a fusillade of "anti-red" propaganda...
...Coordination" is a word obviously more fitted to catch the eye than the mind, and this is the function assigned the National Committee by the authors of the letter. If a control over the policies of the local chapters is to be rigorously eschewed, coordination will answer such crying needs as setting a common date for peace meetings and demonstrations of other sorts. The annual dues of the chapters will have to be very low indeed if such a service is to have a just price...
...function of the national organization is one of the coordinating where possible the groups on the different campuses rather than one of determining and imposing a policy from above. The tendency "to be all things to all men", which the Editor observed in the national program, indicates a democratic tolerance of the convictions of other members and member organizations in the loose intercollegiate federation rather than an acceptance of those convictions on the part of every individual member. To be a loyal citizen, one need not approve of every policy of the United States Government...
Loss of carbon dioxide occurs through the lungs. Carbon dioxide is both a product of breathing and a necessary stimulant which the lungs need to keep functioning. Because of this shortage, the lungs function inadequately, the patient pants, gasps, loses his breath. For lack of carbon dioxide in the lungs the red blood cells in the arteries and veins hold back their oxygen thus causing air hunger throughout the tissues...