Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when they meet again to get the early returns in 1908. Ostensibly its three heroines are Louise, Helen, and Grace Elliott, daughters of Silver Bow's druggist, but before much footage has slid through the projection machines, it becomes apparent that Helen (Anita Louise) and Grace (Jane Bryan) function chiefly to preserve a semblance of the sorority pattern that served Warners so well in Four Daughters...
...order to allow the new Inter-House debating plans to function without competition, the Varsity debates are all scheduled away from home this semester. Two series of eight debates each have been arranged for radio broadcasts, the first of which will be called the "Harvard Forum...
...political favoritism from metropolitan government. It provides for the appointment by the Council of a paid administrator; he runs the city, prepares the budget, appoints subordinates according to civil service laws, while the mayor loses his powers of appointment and veto. The Council, reduced to nine members, performs the function of a board of directors, since it can remove the manager after a hearing. More important for the voters is that the Councilmen are elected at large by proportional representation, which eliminates the primary and reflects, in Dean Landis's words, "as accurately as human ingenuity can devise, the complexion...
Representative Bruce Barton, famed adman-into-politician who conceives that at present his most useful function is as articulator of his party's ideas, hung a national backdrop for Nominee Dewey with a speech about the New Deal's shortcomings and how Republicans would mend them. "The next national campaign," he key noted, "will not be fought between a liberal party and a reactionary party. There is no place in America for a reactionary party. The next national campaign will be between a Republican liberal party and a Democratic radical party...
...Plan No. 4, and also Henlein's additional demands, instead urged "ex-treme unconstitutional action"-i. e., Sudeten secession-so that by September 13 "the Reich had become the dominant factor in the situation; the dispute was no longer an internal one. It was not part of my function to attempt mediation between Czechoslovakia and Germany...