Word: boarded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Owen D. Young, board chairman of the General Electric Co., a vast open-shop organization, did not speak in person. President Green quoted him; quoted from a speech Mr. Young once made at Harvard, when Mr. Young said: "Slowly we are learning that low wages for labor do not mean high profits for capital. What we need to know is the limits within which men may work with zest, spirit and pride of accomplishment." Just as Mr. Young's speech had originally startled old-fashioned employers, by its proximity to Labor doctrine, so did the quotation of Mr. Young...
Back to Babel. By far the most important topic of the convention was the withdrawal of the A. F. of L.'s Building Trades Department from the National Board of Jurisdictional Awards. The latter, now collapsed, was a board composed of civil engineers, architects, contractors and other employers, and of workers in the building trades, which was formed to settle disputes as to what workmen should do what sorts of work and how. Labor accused the other members of the Board of failing to carry out the Board's decisions. Secretary of Labor Davis deplored Labor...
...Chief of Chaplains Axton was last week ordered to Walter Reed Hospital for physical observation, preliminary to appearing before an Army retiring board. Citizens wondered...
...submit the best fragments completing Schubert's famed "Unfinished Symphony". Of such efforts Ossip Gabrilowitsch, conductor of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, disapproves. Last week he wrote to the Committee in charge: "Several weeks ago the. . . Committee invited me to become a member of the Artists' Advisory Board. Believing the purpose was a dignified tribute to the memory of the great composer, I gladly accepted. ... I am now informed of... the competition for completing Schubert's masterpiece. . . . This seems, to me, like adding a pair of arms to the Venus of Milo. ... I request that my name...
...trial for "insolence, insubordination, and the possession of a domineering attitude," School Superintendent of Chicago William McAndrew said: "They [the School Board] will fire me all right, but they'll have to stage a burlesque show to do it" (TIME, Oct. 10). After a week's adjournment of his trial, the second act was presented...