Word: americans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unusually attractive musical entertainment is to take place tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock at the Harvard Union, in the form of a piano recital by Guy Maier, the young American pianist...
...Castle was born in Honolulu, and his father was King Kalakaua's minister in Washington. He was graduated from Harvard in 1000 and was an instructor and assistant dean here from 1904 to 1913, During the American participation in the World War, he was director of the bureau of communications of the American Red Cross. Entering the state department as a special assistant in 1919, he was gradually promoted until he reached his present position of assistant secretary of state...
...lives of some of the miners in West Virginia as disgraceful to the United States. He presented, however, a bright picture of the alleviating influence exerted on the miners by what he termed "family paternalism" on the part of some operators. He protested against the prevalent belief that all American laborers possess automobiles radios, and all modern conveniences. He remarked that in the course of his survey he had found localities where men and women were denied even the elementary decencies...
...chief criticism of the attitude of operators in American industry is that concurrent with the willingness to discard all but the latest machinery there is an equal readiness to cast off human machinery when its efficiency becomes impaired. In developing his discussion of this aspect of American industry he made a few observations on the subject of unemployment. He explained that, up to the present time, the expansion of industry and the mobility of labor, which follows demand, have served to prevent unemployment from growing into a national problem such as it is in England. Though reliable governmental statistics relative...
...concluding his talk. Mr. Watkins presented two alternative futures for American industry. He admitted as possible the success of the "New Capital", which involves labor stock holding and profit sharing. But he favors the view that overproduction and unemployment will combine to place American Industry in a state of decline