Word: utilitarianism
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...nine young women entailed, the Dorrance triumph was a "Jungle Ball" in Philadelphia's Bellevue-Stratford hotel, where the ballroom was realistically decorated with coconut palms, tanks of tropical fish, a menagerie of monkeys, apes, bears, snakes and hundreds of birds singing in cages hung from the ceiling. Utilitarian Geist's big play was a party on his suburban estate, where 20 acres were converted into a "Versailles Garden" with electric stars in the shrubs. Mr. Kent waited until summer, then gave not one but two balls simultaneously in Bar Harbor. One was on a yacht, the other...
Last winter when President Roosevelt assigned his new Federal Reserve Board appointees to the staggered terms provided by law, he gave the shortest term (two years) to Ralph Waldo Morrison, a husky Texas utilitarian who had contributed $25,000 to the Democratic National Committee in 1932. Mr. Morrison's tenure proved shorter than the shortest term. Last week, after only four months in office, he sent his resignation to the White House. In his home town of San Antonio Mr. Morrison offered no explanation for his resignation, simply issuing this statement: "The obligations of the Federal Reserve Board...
Died. Virginia Van Vliet Insull, sister-in-law of onetime Chicago Utilitarian Samuel Insull; after long illness; in Orillia, Ont. Her husband, Martin John Insull was implicated with his brother Samuel in the collapse of the Insull utility empire...
These reports stand on their own merits and are not lightly to be dismissed. But it is permissable to raise some perennial questions which the roseate hue of the reports cannot entirely overcome. First and foremost, of course, comes the large but purely utilitarian problem, is graduate study truly an economic investment? Time was when this admitted only an affirmative answer, with statistical accounting used as corroborative evidence. But today there is considerable skepticism; the chill wind of depression has not swept over college graduates for nothing...
...Telephone & Telegraph Co., and Charles Franklin Kettering, 59, vice president in charge of research of General Motors Corp.; the Franklin medal of Philadelphia's Franklin Institute, awarded annually for salient achievements in phys ical science or technology, "without regard to country," from a fund established in 1914 by Utilitarian Samuel Insull...