Word: labor
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...following Intercollegiate Civic League article on "The National Department of Commerce and Labor" is written by Hon. Oscar S. Straus, Secretary of that department. Mr. Straus was born in Atterberg, Rhenish Bavaria, but came to this country early in life. His first important diplomatic office after his graduation from Columbia was his appointment in 1887 by President Cleveland as United States Minister to Turkey. He was elected a member of the permanent court of arbitration at the Hague six years ago, and entered his present position last year...
...Department of Commerce and Labor...
...stage used for the previous production and for the Stadium Class Day exercises, is still available, and will save considerable labor and expense...
...President of the United States. This idea no longer accords with existing circumstances, since it ignores these four indispensable layers of democratic society; first, a thin, upper layer, consisting of a managing, leading, organizing class; second, a layer comprised of handworkers, who make their living by manual labor of the artistic sort, into which the nervous system enters; third, a commercial layer composed of men employed in buying and distributing; and last, a class in agricultural and forestry employ. Transition from one of these layers to the others should be kept easy. Opposed to this transition are two forces...
...asked to answer this question: Should a young man on leaving college go into politics? If so, how?' The most important works of man are: Government, or politics; Original scientific research; Creative labor, in art, literature or music...