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...case histories of labormanagement relations, the time study has run up a long record for making trouble. The practice of clocking a worker began in the 1880s with Frederick Winslow Taylor, the father of scientific management, about the same time that Samuel Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor...
Tragedy of Errors. France was restless and unhappy in the 1880s and early 1890s. The army was still licking its wounded pride over Germany's blitz victory of 1870-71. Church and state intermittently sniped at each other. Sixteen Cabinets formed and fell in a dozen years. It was an edgy and suspicious age, and no one was edgier or more suspicious than the staff of the innocuously named Statistical Section, the French army's counterintelligence agency...
Harvard purchased it by subscription in that year. One gathers that students were boarded there for a while, but by the 1880s the alien mass of Austin Hall was crowding it into Kirkland Street from behind and Professor James Bradley Thayer, a latter-day saint of the Law School, was living there. At some now well-hidden date before the turn of the century, Holmes house was torn down, not to make way for Littauer, which didn't inflate the landscape until much later, but presumably because, like its garret's contents, it was slowly going to pieces...
What bothers the National Gallery almost as much is that it is expected to make new purchases on an annual government grant of only £10,500 ($29,400), very little more than it got in the 1880s,* plus other income that rarely exceeds £10,000 a year. Faced with today's soaring prices for old masters, the National Gallery is priced out of the market. More and more British masterpieces are leaving the country. "The hope of saving what remains of our national heritage and providing for expansion," said the report, ". . . must remain largely dependent upon the accident...
Papa was no king of the wild frontier, but for Utah Territory of the 1880s he was quick on the verbal draw. Mama was going on 18, with braided blond pigtails, when he fired these lines at her: "I love you, Tena Nielsen. I love you with the intensity of the desert sun. I love you with the sweep and grandeur of the mountain peaks. I love you with the humility of a peasant for a princess . . . Don't be afraid of the wrath of your people. My love for you will shield and protect you." Papa...