Word: labors
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...which was the establishment of a profit-sharing plan for his employes involving a distribution of about $17,000,000 annually. He has also established a minimum wage of $5.00 a day throughout all his factories, domestic and foreign, which has brought him to the front of employers of labor. His remarkable way of dealing with the many thousands of men in his employ has won him a foremost position as a practical sociologist. His interest in prison reform has led him to offer jobs in his factories to men just out of prison, and he now employs...
...escape the brunt of the foregoing remark. "In Dawn" contains some very lovely lines. The vers libre of B. P. Clark '16 succeeds tolerably well until the last line, "And one star drifting in the east," for that one star in the east has had to do so much labor in the interest of the Muses, that the most of us feel it is time to give it a vacation. "Gypsy's Villanelle," by A. Putnam '18, and "Song of Night," by J. T. Rogers '18, are both excellent examples of meter, but there seems to be something lacking...
...editorials of this issue are of the regular Advocate style. They are carefully written, and unimpeachable, but the subjects are not important enough for the labor which they show. The one concerning examination time reminds one of an old maid of sixty attempting to masquerade as a debutante...
...biggest one-act sensation that the New York stage has had for many years. Mr. Walker has secured the exclusive American rights to Dusany's "The Golden Doom," and this play will be an important part of the repertoire. Other interesting plays will be Shakspere's "Love's Labor's Lost," Oscar Wilde's "The Birthday of the Infanta"; "The Golden Ball," by Alice Brown; "Six Games," by Anna Hempstead Branch; and new plays by Hortense Flexner, Grace M. Lewis, Eleanor Langdon Leeds and Gordon Bottomley. Strindberg's "Swanwhite" also will be given...
...Whoever on Lord's Day keeps open his shop, warehouse, or workhouse, or does any manner of labor, business, or work, except works of charity and necessity, or takes part in any sport, game, play, or public diversion, except a concert or sacred music, or an entertainment given by a religious or charitable society, the proceeds of which, if any, are to be devoted exclusively to a charitable or religious purpose, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $50 for each offence, and the proprietor, manager, or person in charge of each game, sport, play, or public...