Word: functionally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jersey City's Mayor Hague has recently put up a barrier against the C.I.O. organization as far as his city is concerned, and the Civil Liberties Union has been fighting the mayor on the ground that the labor group has a right to function in Jersey City...
Paradoxically enough, however, this opposition has rendered the nation a service. By demonstrating the President's loss of prestige, it has made more certain that in the future the function of the chief executive will be separate from that of Congress. Moreover, by putting the President in a bad light, it has become expedient for him to administer the bill well, if only to redeem himself in the eyes of the nation; and for it to be expedient that the administrative agencies be reorganized well is the best assurance the nation could have that this will be done...
...Reorganization proposed the first new department since Labor was created in 1913; Welfare, under which would function agencies like WPA, National Youth Administration and possibly the Social Security Board. It proposed also a National Resources Planning Board...
...despite the fact that Government has dipped into the public purse to make possible the granting of huge subsidies to industry, agriculture, banking and finance. . . . Our national internal economy has attained the amazing condition where it appears that practically all of our major enterprises are unable to exist or function on their own resources. . . . America is moving in economic reverse...
...money, plenty of colleagues whose affairs kept them traveling back & forth between London and Moscow. Miss X learned how to make photographic copies of documents for Mr. Glading, was sent by him on minor missions, finally rented with money he gave her a London flat which she equipped to function as a document-copying factory. Here Miss X worked with a couple who said they were "Mr. & Mrs. Stevens," could speak no English, talked with her in French, and one day were suddenly recalled to Moscow, where they "disappeared...