Word: utilitarian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most famed family industry; Du Pont-in-law Donaldson Brown, vice chairman, financial and labor policy man of General Motors; the retiring president of N. A. M., courtly Howard Coonley of Walworth Co., whose valve business has not been doing so well in spite of recovery; barrel-chested Utilitarian Wendell Lewis Willkie, foe of TVA; President Clarence Francis, able little-publicized business pundit, and Chairman Colby Mitchell Chester, of General Foods; heavy-jowled Samuel Clay Williams, chairman of Reynolds Tobacco; Wisconsin's politics-minded Walter Jodok Kohler, of Kohler...
...succeed the late famed Utilitarian James Simpson, directors of Chicago's Commonwealth Edison Co. last week elected a new chairman: big, white-haired General Counsel Charles Yoe Freeman...
Furthermore, from a strictly utilitarian point of view, it is disadvantageous to move into these already overcrowded fields. The history of concentration fields shows that in periods of social or economic stress, such as the last ten years, students stampede into the social sciences. This recent stampede has led to overcrowded courses, insufficient tutorial staffs, and insufficient departmental budgets in the social sciences. For the University's funds are pigeon-holed; they cannot be shifted at will...
...vested intersts" (the Willkie Indiana pronunciation). He also mixed in politics: debated against the Ku Klux Klan, spoke for the progressive doctrines of Bob La Follette, the elder, fought the nomination of William Gibbs McAdoo at the 1924 Democratic convention because of the Klan issue. In 1926 aristocratic Public Utilitarian Bernard Capen Cobb wrote to an officer of his Northern Ohio Power & Light: "Do not let this young man get away from us. . . . He is a comer and we should keep...
...their first classes at 8 a.m., rarely knock off before 4:30 p.m. They are too busy for drinking, dancing, big-time athletics or campus chitchat (only one-third live in dormitories). Offering no snap courses, Rensselaer strips down even English and Philosophy to their utilitarian bones. English is studied by Rensselaer men primarily as a tool for writing business reports and selling their ideas. Almost their only un-antlike activity is stamp collecting, favorite Rensselaer hobby...