Word: utilitarian
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...name and influence may extend no farther than his city limits. As time passes, however, he may acquire membership on more and more important directorships, may achieve standing as an "interest," may ultimately rank with Insull, Mitchell, Thorne. The progress of both the Congressman and the Utilitarian may be traced by their appearance in the newspapers, though the Congressman gets the front page and the Utility Man the financial section. Last week every metropolitan newspaper mentioned Floyd L. Carlisle, chairman of Niagara-Hudson Corp. Last week every utility-minded newspaper reader heard of Mr. Carlisle in connection with three important...
...leaving out of consideration the outraged feelings of the Tower, even a utilitarian motive for causing it such shame is by no means obvious. After two more House Units have been similarly adorned, the resulting emblem hung against the sky might conceivably be appropriate for the Business School, but they should have thought of that in 1926. And as for intramural flag-pole sitting, the weathervane would offer a well-nigh insurmountable obstacle...
...general division of art in Russia. Follows a statement of the health of that art in 1917; then the slow turning of chaos into the art-propaganda which today dominates Russian esthetics. The time is obviously not yet ripe for piercing criticism. Art in Soviet Russia is still strictly utilitarian, avowedly a tool for spreading Communism, educating the proletariat: ". . . every novel, poem and play can justify itself in the eyes of the Russian workers only if its author can demonstrate that it fits into the general cultural aims of the Soviet Union." These aims are fairly well known. Generally, they...
...Senate seated but severely condemned Truman Newberry for spending $195,000 in Michigan in 1918 to beat Henry Ford. After the 1926 primaries it ousted Frank Leslie Smith of Illinois for spending $458,792 (a large part of which came from Public Utilitarian Samuel Insull) and William Scott Vare of Pennsylvania for spending...
...last year production was much greater than demand, for two major reasons: 1) Manufacturers with plentiful money derived from sale of stocks had optimistically expanded their production facilities; 2) The public, over excited by 1927 and 1928 air exploits, was hedging on purchases, was beginning to buy chiefly for utilitarian needs. This hedging, aviation analysts find, is getting worse this year. However, factories are not expanding any more. Their owners are warily and in many cases fearfully watching the market...