Word: concernedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...between employer, and employee. It is precisely that. It is government in the factory, mine or mill. It is a structure of conference committees which, in the best prevailing practice, are composed in equal numbers of elected representatives of the management. It is an organization, local to the particular concern in which it is set up, whose function and purpose is to so correlate the mutual interests of employee and manager as to produce the most harmonious working relationships, the most effective production methods, and the best teamwork between the two often hostile factors in industry, labor and capital...
...education. Congressional leaders interested in education are agreed upon such a compromise; General Sawyer has said he would accept it, and it should not prove difficult to convince the President that if there must be one department, with welfare included, it should at least have education as its primary concern. New York Evening Post...
...University accepted can go to France unless further funds are provided. Certain of the alumni will undoubtedly help supply the necessary amount; but this does not mean that present Harvard men should have no hand in an affair that is surely very much a matter of undergraduate concern...
...considerable interest in the present status of American investments in that republic. Some critics have gone so far as to imply that much of the agitation in favor of the treaty was due to the pressure from American interests, especially banks and petroleum corporations, which are of course especially concerned oyer any issue affecting the future attitude of Colombia toward American enterprises. An appraisal of the present status of the latter is, therefore, a matter of timely concern...
...Transportation Act of 1920 should be given a fair trial. "Railroads," he said, "are suffering little more than other industrial institutions. There are, however, fundamental differences which affect the analogy. In the first place, the railroads are public utilities which must operate whether they pay or not. An industrial concern may shut down if the losses thereby occasioned are less than those which it sustains under operation in these subnormal times. In the second place, the typical industrial concern made abnormal profits during the war and so gained a surplus to carry it over the lean years. The railroads...