Word: functioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said Mr. Edge: "I want it to be clearly understood that it is in no wise a reflection on any of the individual members of the board ... I have had some experience in business administration and I can see nothing but confusion when a purely executive function has seven heads with equal responsibility. ... If there ever was a responsibility which required, in my judgment, one strong, powerful, executive head, it is the administration of the American Merchant Marine...
...fact that he was chosen to be President of the Emergency Fleet Corporation was indicative of a new policy. When the Shipping Board was created, it was expected to take charge only of the major questions of policy, exercising only quasi-judicial and regulatory functions. Instead it usurped in large part the actual responsibilities of operating Government owned merchant ships-a function that was expected of the Emergency Fleet Corporation. This has come about partly through the fact that the posts of Chairman of the Shipping Board and of President of Emergency Fleet Corporation were held...
...Riddle also announced the discovery of a hitherto unknown function of the thymus, a ductless gland prominent in young children (TIME, June 25), which atrophies at adolescence. A deficiency of thymus in female pigeons prevents their providing their eggs with shells and albumen. If they are fed doses of dried thymus, the eggs become normal...
...plan has never before fully been realized. In helping to keep alumni in touch with events at the University and more particularly in giving to schoolboys an acquaintance with colleges in general and Harvard in particular, the CRIMSON feels that it will be performing a new and valuable function. With graduates and clubs it does not wish to supplant but merely to supplement the Bulletin. With schools it does not wish to proselyte but merely to give the schoolboy, accustomed to the lurid and often unintelligent reports in the metropolitan press of the country, a truer picture of the facts...
...That the Department of Labor be given authority "to improve working conditions" (as is commanded by law) besides it present function of investigating, reporting and recommending...