Word: functional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other nations, while willing to sign the F.A.O. constitution, were unable to come to a clear agreement on F.A.O.'s rightful function. Should it have power to act in streamlining the world's distribution of food? Or should it be solely an advisory body...
...world continues free of serious epidemics. The fact is fortunate. The old League of Nations' Health Organization, now reduced to a staff of eleven, is still in Geneva putting out its Bulletin. But with so few men, it is no longer able to carry out its most valuable function: trouble-shooting in any nation where a plague strikes...
...revolution by decree. Neither the revolution nor the revolutionary government had yet been subject to the test of direct, secret elections. Last week there were elections of a sort in Czechoslovakia. But they had been arranged by the only four parties permitted to function. They were conducted at party meetings. The vote was by public acclamation; the purpose was to choose electors who in turn would choose members of a Provisional Parliament. The seats in this Parliament had already been allotted by the controlling parties...
...first was an economic and scientific section, headed by a New York department-store executive. Colonel Raymond C. Kramer. Its ultimate function: to see to the demilitarization of Japan's industry and advise the supreme commander on reparations. Its immediate task: to activate a minimum economy for Japan, where everything stood stock still...
Entitled "Let Freedom Ring" and signed by the Emergency Council, the stapled muzzle proclaimed in patronizing tone that the "function of Jester "is to be a humorous magazine, in the New Yorker Style, but the editor has chosen this issue as his personal medium for an adulterated discussion of a matter which has already been settled...