Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...labor union was one of the first and most important agencies to support laws to prevent the abuses of woman and child labor. In addition the union started a campaign for better public schools, advocating that education until a certain age be compulsory, that text books be supplied free and that extension facilities such as night schools be introduced. Ever since then the trade union has carried on an active campaign to secure better education facilities...
...year for the support of the College for seven years, and it is signed by twenty-five or thirty of the inhabitants of Concord at that time. It represents one of the first attemps to raise money for the support of the College--a true predecessor of the Endowment Campaign of the present day. When it was put up at auction at a recent Harvard dinner in New York, it brought in $2000 to the present Endowment Fund...
...Fechner, lecturer at the Graduate School of Business Administration, calls attention to the wide-spread misunderstanding that exists as to the aims of labor unions. So much publicity is given their discreditable acts, that their usefulness is often overlooked. Among the aims mentioned by Mr. Fechner, is the campaign to carry on educational work among the workers. Not only do the unions advocate compulsory education for children, free text-books and the extension of night schools, but they would have opportunities for study so widely offered that all labor might avail itself of the chance to better its existence. Trade...
...following men, who have been appointed as class chairmen for this campaign, must report to Sheridan Logan at the Crimson Building today between 1.30 and 3.45 without fail: Gardner Forster, Class of 1921 Rupert Emerson, Class of 1922 E. S. Webster, Class of 1923 F. T. Baldwin, Class...
...were a thing of the future. Congress decided some time ago that an army of 280,000 was the maximum required for normal times; it provided for funds to pay only 175,000 of this number. Mr. Baker, instead of taking the hint, has indulged in a costly recruiting campaign which has brought the army up to 228,000 men. The bill for this action was $40,000,000 and how much more will be required to pay the extra men is not known...