Word: logicality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More important in the steelmasters' logic was the fact that the American Federation of Labor had marked their open-shop business as the next objective in its unionization drive under NRA. Confronted with a similar A. F. of L. drive, the automobile industry had materially strengthened its position with Washington by a voluntary pay increase. Perhaps the same timely strategy would work for Steel and postpone the inevitable day of a showdown with organized Labor...
...present system is justified by the assertion that if exercise were not compulsory some would not receive its beneficial results. This is the sort of logic upon which was based the old system of restrictions and regulations of all sorts. Dr. Eliot devoted himself to a destruction of this philosophy and the substitution of the current principles which place responsibility upon the individual and allow him maximum freedom to exercise his personal preferences. Compulsory physical exercise is in direct contradiction to this modern climate of opinion and should be abandoned. Freshmen should be offered facilities for exercise in informal groups...
Settlement of the controversy between manufacturers and laborers in the automobile industry brings into bold relief two guiding principles for future industrial relations: it outlines a method for choosing the representatives through whom the NRA entitles labor to bargain collectively, and it demonstrates convincingly the logic of the conference rather than the strike method of procedure...
...plan of hour-credits has more behind it than mere theoretical logic; its practicability has been proven in colleges all over the country and it is now the accepted system in nistitutions of all sizes. There is nothing in the present makeup of Harvard which would prevent the smooth working of such a system and there is no official objection to it in principle. The existing method of assigning course credits at Harvard is archaic and unjust; the suggested plan is equitable and practical, and only an excess of inertia stands in the way of its adoption...
There are a number of matters like the tariff, for instance, which will require a difference with the administration. Thus to Speaker Rainey's list of 21 who voted "wrong" there now might be added by the same logic about 90 Democrats who voted for the bonus, though it is not certain yet how many of these will vote to override a veto...