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Employe stock ownership, voluntary compensation for injuries, "safety first", employe welfare-in the form of schools, playgrounds, clubs, gardens, pensions - and abolition of the twelve-hour day were policies embraced by Judge Gary before others forced them upon him. He read the times aright, saw that industry would be humanized and might better prosper by humanizing itself. In 1918 Judge Gary refused to receive Samuel Gompers resenting labor's attempt to unionize the steel industry for ends which the steel industry already had in view. A strike was called but failed. Judge Gary had proved himself as good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Judge Gary | 8/22/1927 | See Source »

Help us to honor Thee aright Until we see Thy Face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Dedication | 10/18/1926 | See Source »

...needed palliative for national over-confidence. Minority politicians may assert that the country is decadent, but they always imply that the remedy is simply to place them in power. Individual critics may make despondent observations, but usually they urge a pet reform to set the world aright. Even cynics of the Mencken variety who see little virtue in mankind alleviate the sting of their sneers by a tacit admission that their circle is not beyond saving...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRACTICAL PESSIMIST | 9/28/1926 | See Source »

...these terms but a few months ago. And then undergraduates at Harvard, originators of much that is worthy in American academic life, gave the public cause to hope that football would be restored to its rightful place. The standards of value in university life were to be set aright by direct action from Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BIG THREE TICKET RISE MEETS GENERAL FAVOR | 3/8/1926 | See Source »

...himself, Gilbert's old sweetheart and her unpleasant husband complicating matters, and everybody fighting for possession of the ranch and the oil that would make its owner rich. Into this atmosphere charged with hate and what not besides comes Pancho Lopez to show how one can set the world aright with a sense of humor, a Colt 45, and a Machiavellian philosophy...

Author: By H. M. H. jr., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 10/14/1925 | See Source »

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