Word: assists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...create by means of an alliance among the specified organizations the means of mutual support, to assist any of the allied organizations in defending hours of labor, wage standards, in securing advancement of the standards of living or to take action to secure acceptance of and defend any principle of an industrial character which may be deemed vital by the allied organizations...
...committee is to assist the League's International Commission for Intellectual Cooperation. Members, whose headquarters are' to be in Washington: Elihu Root, George E. Hale, Charles H. Hastings, Herbert Putnam, Virginia Gildersleeve, Lorado Taft, James H. Breasted, Charles W. Eliot, Vernon L. Kellogg, Augustus Trowbridge, Charles R. Mann...
What Sir Josiah Stamp*- forthe semi-bald one was he-meant was, that the U. S., which is more interested in German reparation than any nation in the world (the U. S. is the world's greatest creditor), should shatter her tariff wall and assist the depressed European nations to increase their exports. But, above all, creditor nations under the Experts' Plan should not press for German payments quicker than that trade policy permits. Further, he warned that creditor nations, including the U. S., might have to curtail production if the Plan is to succeed...
...situation in outline was as follows: To assist the coal trade by reducing production costs and to decrease the ever-swelling army of unemployed, the mine owners decided to cancel a national wage agreement with the men and to call for an eight instead of a seven- hour working day. In effect, this raises the workers' weekly earnings...
...family," said Daniel Guggen- heim, famed copper man, in sending a $500,000 check, last week, to New York University for the foundation of a College of Aeronautics,* "has long been identified with exploration beneath the earth. We have tried to assist in developments which would make mining more safe as well as more profitable and therefore of the greatest economic value. I have learned through my son, Harry F. Guggenheim, who was one of the first civilians to enter aviation and was a naval aviator overseas during the World War, of the plans of New York University to establish...