Word: utilitarianism
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...bronze, probably the oldest, certainly one of the most useful alloys in the world. Last week the Albright Art Gallery of Buffalo popped into the spotlight with an exhibition illustrating the history of bronze-casting from about 3000 B.C. to the 20th Century. Eschewing such utilitarian objects as Roman swords, motorboat propellers and bank tellers' cages, the gallery has assembled a collection of 173 statuettes, all of them of first rank, only one (a Degas figurine) the property of the Albright Art Gallery. Most liberal lenders were New York's Metropolitan Museum, which offered 33 pieces, the Boston...
...with selling gas to Chicagoans, gas made from coal and gas piped in from the Southwest. From this company James Simpson retired in 1935 because he felt management of gas arid electric companies in Chicago should be distinct. Last week, three days before he was 63, handsome, grey-suited Utilitarian Simpson went before a special meeting of Edison stockholders, asked for permission to put together all the old Insull utility companies in Northern Illinois except Peoples Gas into one great Chicagoland company reaching to the Mississippi River -a Commonwealth Edison Co. with $746,000,000 resources. Two court suits seeking...
Aside from these utilitarian aspects of the situation, Dick Harlow has carved a place for himself at Soldier's Field which no one else could fill. Always a genial, philosophic personality, he has the knack of making people wish to work for him. Crimson football players and fans are uniformly grateful for that continuity of purpose which has influenced Coach Harlow to remain in Cambridge...
...found for the job, the Papacy will take back to itself much of its medieval power. Neutrality legislation included, no one seems to have much faith in any existing method of preventing the young men from following the dollar to war. If it can fulfill its utilitarian opportunities, the Church may well return to provide that civilizing unity which was its to give during the Middle Ages, which the profit motive supplied for the expanding capitalism of the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, and which the League of Nations has failed to provide in our time...
...Claiming Utilitarian Samuel Insull...