Word: functional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...free to say that I should have far less hope for a significant product of the Court's functioning if we did not have also the League of Nations. For instance, the Court may give advisory opinions requested by the Council of the League of Nations. Senator Borah has been opposing this function, and apparently wants the United States to say that they must be abolished. Why? Because they don't work well? He does not say that. Indeed, I do not see how any informed student could say it. The fact that the United States Supreme Court does...
...Advisory Function Useful...
...Harvard Dramatic Club, especially since the official abandonment by Harvard University of courses in practical theatre art, seems to me to have an important function, the function of keeping alive or of awakening among students of the rising generation, a serious interest in the problems of the contemporary theatre, and of giving them, also, an opportunity to practice the arts of the theatre...
Foreign Censorship. The 56th birthday of King Vittorio Emanuele was celebrated at a reception tendered him by the Government and Premier Mussolini at the Capital. Foreign newspapermen were barred even from attendance at this function by the adroit form in which the official invitos were cast. It was specifically required that every male guest appear in uniform, and since even those foreign correspondents in Rome who are military men had left their uniforms at home, cables reported that all of them were refused admittance.† For good measure, numerous Italians who had outgrown their military trappings or allowed them...
...total of 941 votes cast, only 268 favored the measure. The reason was not far to seek. At present every exchange member knows that his "seat" is worth in excess of $130,000. Should more seats be added, the laws of supply and demand would function to lower that value. No exchange member wishes his "equity" to be affected. Therefore the present excessively heavy movements in securities on the exchange (TIME, Oct. 26, et seq) will continue to take place without an increase in the number of the opulently seated. The Governing Board's proposal was the first...