Word: acted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Possible abuses in the operation of the act have been carefully and wisely safeguarded. The grasping employer cannot hold the laborer to his ill-paid job by threat of imprisonment or fine if the latter ceases work. Persons temporarily unemployed by reason of differences with employers, as the law phrases it, are not included in its provisions. The law-makers, however, have not exempted the so-called "idle rich." The receipt of income from property or other source is not considered the equivalent of "gainful employment." Students are the only other class of citizens excluded from the law's operation...
...Virginia the enforcement of the Compulsory Labor Law has been singularly successful since its passage a year ago. As a part of his punishment the convicted loafer must work upon the roads or other public works. A larger fine and longer imprisonment for delinquents are provided in the Maryland act. In their essentials, however, the laws of the three states agree...
...bitter struggle. It is through the long process of attrition, of wearing Germany out by sheer destruction of numbers, that the final victory is to be won. Serious as the events of the immediate past have been, they afford no basis for despondency. When interpreted in this light, they act rather as a prelude to the ultimate defeat of the Central Powers...
...entered the Italian Ambulance Service. In Standish Hall Wendell Davis, of New York City, has been changed from pianist to dormitory chairman in place of Seymour Wadsworth, of Middletown, Conn., who has also enlisted in the Italian Red Cross work. John Royce Meeker, of New York City, will hereafter act as pianist for the Standish chorus. In Smith Halls David Washburn Bailey, of Wollaston, has been appointed to fill the place of James Arnold Lowell, Jr., of Chestnut Hill, who has enrolled in the Royal Flying Corps of the Canadian Army...
...will be given an opportunity to pursue a course in the Hebert system of physical and either bayonet exercise, according to the British system, or grenade throwing, at Camp Devens in connection with the O. T. C. from May 13 to 25, inclusive. Volunteers, who will obligate themselves to act as assistant instructors in the University R. O. T. C. 1918 Summer Camp, are directed to sign up at Headquarters by noon tomorrow...