Word: labor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...question of food, once academic and distant, has become intensely acute. Through the warning voice of Mr. Hoover, pronouncing the doom of starvation for the world, the people have come to understand that abundant sustenance for life is not a purely natural good, springing without labor from the ground. Such understanding was necessary to check the wastefulness and the shortsightedness which have gone with our opulence. We have, as is clearly shown, profited by the understanding...
College students will be employed by the United State Government to facilitate the construction of the wooden ships which are to be used in keeping the Allies supplied. The Shipping Board and Department of Labor have worked out a plan for the utilization of college men trained in various schools...
...University Law School, as an assistant to Secretary Baker of War, has been announced. Professor Frankfurter was former assistant attorney general, and was among the first to offer his services to the Government for the war. He has been aiding the War Department already for several weeks in adjusting labor disputes...
Leaving his work so near fulfillment, Captain Cordier undertakes a new and different labor. His promotion to the General Staff is a notable tribute to the ability he has here so clearly shown. As he has given the very best he might give to the complete success of the Corps, so he will give his very best to the larger and more national work which the General Staff must...
Walter Sherman Gifford '05 has been appointed director of the Council of National Defence, the body which was recently recreated by act of Congress to mobilize and unify the industries of the United States. The members of the Council are the Secretaries of War, Navy, Interior, Agriculture, Commerce, and Labor. Fifteen sections and boards of the Council report to the director and through him to the members of the Cabinet, and each member of the advisory council has industrial committees to assist...