Word: labor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Still another name was added to the list of Faculty members who have left the University to take up war work when Assistant Professor James Ford '04, Ph.D. '09, left Cambridge for Washington yesterday, where he will be connected with the Department of Labor. He was associated with the Social Ethics Department of the University, and it is in work closely related to this field that he will now be engaged. His duties will be connected with the Housing Bureau, which is concerned with bettering the living conditions of the industrial classes. Professor Ford will have charge of the Information...
...subject for the 1921 triangular debate with Yale and Princeton was announced last night by the University Debating Council. As tentatively phrased it is: "Resolved, That, constitutionality granted, the Government should conscript labor for war industries." Yale, according to previous agreement, may change the wording but not the substance of the subject as it stands. The question as finally amended will be announced Thursday...
First, you have withdrawn from the supply of material of the Nation something to replace which in the market will require labor and material which should be devoted to war purposes...
Second, the person to whom you pay your money may also use it to purchase things requiring material and labor which should be devoted to war purposes. And the person to whom he pays it may repeat the operation...
...when you lend your money to the Government instead of spending it, you will at once lessen the drain to a certain extent on our country's resources, its material, its labor, and its transportation facilities, and in addition you supply your Government with money to be used in winning...