Word: functioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Enforcement of the decrees of the board is left in the last resort to public opinion. This is infinitely preferable to any attempt to take away the "right to strike": and as the machinery of the adjustment boards begins to function, it is to be expected that an increasing proportion of labor disputed will be settled as most of them are at present, without an open break. But when the break comes, and public opinion begins to exert its pressure, it is of the last importance that an impartial board's report should be at hand by which people...
Having voted in November, 1918, to divide their Government in the midst of a world crisis, the American people now find themselves without a Government that can function. Partisanship has paralyzed its members. The commanding prestige that the United States won in the war has been frittered away, and the country, after all its superb achievements, stands before the world today discredited and without a real friend. This is the penalty of that betrayal of faith which is all concentrated in the repeated refusal to ratify the treaty of peace. So far as the United States Senate is concerned...
...formulate the principles involved for the use of the Committee on Planks and Platforms at the national convention in June. It is not the purpose of the Committee of Platforms and Policies in any sense to formulate the definite planks of the party platform. It is rather their function to furnish information, to present facts and principles which ought to be considered by those whose duty it will be to write definitely the platform...
...limtation of free speech since it would brand as criminal a vast, indefinable category of speech. Such legislation would, therefore, suppress all criticism of the United States government; would stop the necessary denunciation of existing evils; and would make impssible the advocacy of radical reform. The true function of government is to guarantee to its citizens the free exercise of these rights rather thatn to limit or deny them. The whole historyof repression shows us that all repressive measures have been inseparable from tyranny and that true progress has been away from such legislation...
...independence and courage to urge the election of a Congress that would work harmoniously with President Wilson. If the country had followed Mr. Hoover's wise and practical advice it would not today be the victim of a deadlocked Government which is virtually unable to function...