Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...letter was ill-timed, illadvised, unsolicited and out of keeping with his function as Ambassador." barked Indiana's Van Nuys, proposing that the Ambassador be called home to tell who his fascist billionaire...
Raymond Dennett '36, graduate secretary, voiced the appreciation of the organization for Clark's long and loyal services. He went on to say that the House could not function properly without Clark's cooperative, devoted, and consistent service...
With the announcement that a Council of Economics Concentrators has been organized, the question arises, "What is the function of such a Council?" Naturally, it is the more eager concentrators who form such a body, and it somehow works out that the more eager are the more radical. There is thus danger that the Council may gather together a fervid little knot of propagandists, eager for the Call, and bent on missionary work among the economic heathens. Any insistence on generally unaccepted doctrines would be bound to alienate great numbers of potentially valuable followers, and would end in futility...
...such financial cynics as Pundit John T. Flynn, securities speculation is the moral and practical equivalent of a crap game. By more moderate theorists it is conceded the useful function of keeping markets liquid. Last week after President Roosevelt's fatherly warning to Government employes to stay out of the market (see p. 15), New York Stock Exchange President Charles R. Gay found occasion in Chicago to repeat the old argument for speculative liquidity, observing that "calculating, measured speculation has been a constructive force. . . .'' Right back at Mr. Gay came the Securities & Exchange Commission's David...
...rank in the development and teaching of legal thought. Thus, in all fairness to the man and to the University to which he is to give his services, one can ask "Is he fitted to teach and to direct the teaching of lawyers?" For Harvard, besides its function as a laboratory for new thought and a reservoir for the preservation of old, ought also to be a training school in the practice of law by young...