Word: utilitarianism
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...national champion in 1934 and 1935, is considered likely to repeat this year) is the result of the addition of brains to its football teams. The knack which recent Minnesota teams have developed of producing touchdown plays at the proper moment, seems supernatural only because it is supremely utilitarian. Uram's 75-yd. run last week was actually the ultimate refinement of a well-stated and thoroughly rehearsed process which became the pattern of Minnesota football when Coach Bernard William Bierman took it in hand four years...
...when asked if he would resign the presidency of Affiliated Broadcasting Co., his first step over the sill of big business since his utilities empire crashed in 1932. Shortly after the first of the year, Insull friends put up $200,000 for A. B. C., gave the old utilitarian the presidency, let him pick three members of the five-man board. Profits of the chain (21 stations in the Midwest) stayed out of sight but the bottom of the original pot did not. Few weeks ago after Vice President Quisenberry shot away President Insull's control of the board...
Divorced, Charles Cutler Dawes, son of Utilitarian Rufus Cutler Dawes who headed Chicago's Century of Progress Exposition; by Mrs. Emily McCormick Dawes; in Chicago. Grounds: desertion...
Married. Samuel Insull Jr., 36, utilitarian; and Margaret Shearin Baynes, 30, millinery buyer; in Chicago...
...which it ever had from a U. S. President. The President alighted at Hot Springs, shook hands with Governor J. Marion Futrell and a delegation of distinguished citizens who promptly took him to visit one of the city's hot-bath houses. After a two-hour luncheon at Utilitarian Harvey Crowley Couch's luxurious summer home on an island in Lake Catherine, driving back in a summer shower, the tourists stopped at an old log church, watched 30 pious folk dressed as pioneers, Indians and soldiers put on an oldtime camp meeting...