Word: americans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Besides the opportunity on ship board, there is even a greater field open to the young man, who, through the Merchant Marine, is chosen to represent an American commercial house in a foreign port. With the present rapid expansion of foreign trade, and this country's growing program for shipping to be managed under the flag, there is a sharp demand for experienced men to fill managerial positions, and the Shipping Board is prepared to train such men on its squadron of commercial cruisers. For this, a knowledge of Spanish would be of great value, as the need in South...
...stay and work up to the command of a ship, or to a position of responsibility in a commercial house in a few years more. It is this spirit of adventure that is pulling so many young men away from the humdrum things of life, and that will establish American trade in the far ports of the earth...
...University debating team will be held Tuesday evening at 7 o'clock in Harvard 6. The contestants will speak for five minutes on either side of the following question: "Resolved, that the United States should establish a Federal Monopoly of all oceanic shipping (coastwise and foreign) under the American flag...
...have been advanced long ago. We have gone on long enough fostering these little nationalities in our midst, all but encouraging them to organize, sometimes even withholding the means of their becoming acquainted with our language and institutions. Employers have often found that ignorant foreign labor was cheaper than American labor. Through this indifference of ours to the process of naturalization arose a large part of the trouble which the Department of Justice and the Secret Service have had with the "hyphenated Americans" during...
...each state selections will be made by committees constituted for that purpose. A list of the names of the men to whom applications should be sent, together with a formal application blank will be printed in June. Copies will be sent upon application to Professor Frank Aydelotte, American Secretary to the Rhodes trustees, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass...