Word: americans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Germany is not yet dead, and the sooner everyone realizes it the better. By just such tactics, by playing on the sympathy of "soft" American hearts will she, unless sternly checked, win back little by little that power which cost so many lives. Only a few weeks ago. It was reported that Von Hindenburg addressed a tremendous gathering on the necessity of concentrating attention on the next "test of strength." While the rest of the world is playing and striking, Germany is working and whining her way into power--a dangerous omen for the future...
This hold-up of the nation, -for it can be described as nothing else-is the most unreasonable measure ever undertaken by American labor. Never before in this country have the workers in a national industry struck for less than an eight-hour day. The professed aim of the American Federation of Labor had been the adjusting basis. A five-day week means cutting down the hours of operation still further and involving a tremendous loss in production. Mr. H. N. Taylor., president of the National Coal Association, stated under oath that the workers received from five to fifteen dollars...
...purpose to disavow Mr. Fleming's definition of the word "soviet." It is, however, extremely maladroit for him to attempt to establish any real connection between a soviet government and our own. Let us not quibble over words. Does Mr. Fleming mean, "Do you believe in American or Bolshevist government?" Then we conservatives, who, through some inexplicable idiosyncracy, still cling to the principles of our Constitution, feel bound to protest...
Patriots may well view with alarm the break in the National Industrial Conference at Washington. It is an event of grave moment in American affairs and may not be dismissed with a word and a hope. Labor has withdrawn from the conference muttering; the representatives of the public seem to side with labor; capital sits tight; and the country waits to see how badly it is to be ground between the upper and the nether millstones...
Following the decision of the Rhodes trustees to alter their methods of selecting American men to go to Oxford, students will in the future be chosen by ex-Rhodes scholars who live in the United States. A committee of these ex-scholars in each state will take the place of the presidents of the universities who have formerly chosen the scholars, but the committees in each case will be headed by some prominent college graduate...