Word: functionally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tools have been jealously guarded and sharpened since Bill Martin succeeded Thomas McCabe as head of the Fed. A banker's banker, Martin has educated a whole new generation of Federal Reserve officials in the classic function of U.S. central banking: keeping money in balance with production with as little direct Government interference as possible. Says FRB Governor (and Truman crony) J. K. Vardaman: "Martin has a better mastery than any man I know of the intermingling of private enterprise and federal supervision in this mixing bowl of the system. He has done more than any man to ensure...
Nixon: "The vice hatchetman" of the Republican Party (Clement); "the chief function of the Vice President should not be that of a political sharpshooter for his party. It should not be that of providing the smear under the protection of the President's smile" (Candidate Estes Ke-fauver); "the White House pet midget, Moby Dick Nixon and his whale † of a pup, Checkers" (Kerr...
...last place wherein to seek the means of gaining national triumphs." He made passing reference to Nasser's much quoted Philosophy of the Revolution (see box) and its implicit threat of an Arab withholding of oil, "the sinew of material civilization without which machines would cease to function." To guard against such threats, Dulles proposed an international board to run the canal...
There remains the third source: oil, a sinew of material civilization without which all its machines would cease to function. The great factories producing every kind of goods−all the instruments of land, sea, and air communication; all the weapons of war, from the mechanical bird above the clouds to the submarines beneath the waves−all would cease to function, and rust would overcome every iron part beyond hope of motion or life...
...represent a villa porch, to which a row of suspended colored lanterns contributed much. Steps led down to the other part, which served as the garden. Beyond this, in the space usually belonging to the entranceway, he removed a portion of the wall and built another platformed area to function as a garden kiosk...