Word: functional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This extension of judicial activity led to such a mass of litigation and such elaborate fact finding that the courts have in recent years largely abandoned this function with the result that rate making has become a much more scientific and a much less time consuming process in the hands of regulatory commissions. Viewed in the light of the courts' past experience with complicated industrial matters, the currently pressing portal-to-portal pay suits appear to be grist for arbitrating bodies or labor-management conferences rather than material or judicial decision...
...that the courts have determined that certain types of workers should be paid from the time they enter the company gates, they have fulfilled the only function which they are physically equipped to perform efficiently. The amount of portal-to-portal pay in individual industries should be left to the parties concerned--labor and management--to be threshed out around the conference table and made a part of future contracts...
...choice was made finally in late November, and the story turned over to TIME'S Special Projects department, a division set up last year to fill a long felt need by Managing Editor T. S. Matthews. Its function is to handle well in advance of publication certain stories which by their nature obviously require a particular seriousness and deliberation of treatment not always possible in the hurly-burly of reporting the week's news of the world [e.g., Laurence Olivier in Henry V (TIME, April 8), Iowa Farmer Gus Kuester (TIME, April 29), Eugene O'Neill (TIME...
...present a special medal* to him, Stalin, Churchill and (posthumously) Roosevelt. De Gaulle approved the other three, but bowed himself out with giraffe-like grace. Said he, updating Louis XIV: "Governments do not decorate themselves. The acts that I accomplished were done at a time when I exercised the function of Chief of State...
...which is that we have come to the end of the post-Renaissance chapter of history which made man the measure of all things. . . . We are witnessing the death of Historical Liberalism . . . which, like a sundial, is unable to tell the time in the dark, and which can function only in a society whose basis is moral...