Word: technocrat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...longer ago than October the Legion of Honor Palace gave California its first view of the work of Isamu Noguchi, about as "extreme" a sculptor as the U. S. contains. And on exhibition last week in the Palace was a pair of limbless little wooden figurines called "Mr. & Mrs. Technocrat" by Atanas Katchamakoff. On the other hand, star performer of the Progressives in their department store show was grizzled, close-cropped Beniamino Bufano, an artist of unquestioned ability who paints somewhat in the manner of Diego Rivera but whose sculpture looks like that of an Italianate Paul Manship...
...Francisco lay California's Governor James Rolph. infected at Sacramento. Ill in Manhattan lay Howard Scott, Chief Technocrat, whose wife (Eleanor Steele) attributes his disability to Technocracy...
...under professorial cover matters were getting hot at Columbia. In a few days Professor Walter Rautenstrauch, chief sponsor for Chief Technocrat Howard Scott, issued a countersigned manifesto: "We are withdrawing from association with Technocracy. ... A new organization under another name will continue research into natural resources and industrial changes." Thus Columbia put High Priest Scott and Technocracy off the campus...
After sending in a two-year subscription to TIME so that I could get my news complete, concise and readable, picture my dismay in trying to decipher your paragraph on Technocrat Howard Scott, The Man- "obfuscate," "rodo-montade," (my dictionary gives the adjective as "rodomont"), "ratiocinated," "transmogrified," "pupated...
Professor Walter Rautenstrauch, Columbia Technocrat, reasoned that machines have made "the substitution of kilowatt hours (energy hours) for man hours . . . inevitable." Dr. John Pease Norton, Suffield, Conn, financial writer, called for the use of an "Edison dollar"-one "Edison dollar" to equal 40 kilowatt hours. General Motors' Charles Franklin Kettering (see p. 55) cried: "We haven't 'overproduction' so bad as you think-every one of you wants a great many things he hasn't yet. But there really is 'under-circulation.' We have been measuring too much in terms of the dollar...