Word: milles
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clock,--"John Stuart Mill", by Professor A. E. Monroe. Harvard 6. (Economics...
There is at present a considerable protest by manufacturers, particularly in New England, against the existing immigration laws. Mill owners are beginning to feel the pinch caused by a shortage of labor. A Greater Boston manufacturer wrote recently, "Unless there is some relief in the shape of immigration, we will be forced to shut down our plant. . . . It is not a question of wages; the help is not here...
...some specific purpose often would be far more effective if applied in some other way. The object for which they were given disappears or is merged in something else, and unless some legal re-interpreting of the will can be done, the bequest unaltered proves to be a mill-stone around the university's neck. The object for which it was given must be revived or forcibly kept alive just to use the money of the gift. The McKay Fund left to Harvard, while not by any means an extreme of this sort, is an illustration of the legal complications...
...keep out of Labor implying more or less bluntly that the most suitable occupation for all such was reclining in the shade of Academies, making paper darts. Mr. Gompers' feeling reflects the old idea,--fonding to become a popular belief,--that a college education is rather a mill-stone about the neck of any one going into business...
...desire and need for a monopoly. Ghandi had two and half million spinning wheels manufactured and distributed throughout India,, this cutting off most of the English monopoly on cloth. It is only necessary to look at the unemployment situation today in Manchester, Birmingham, and the other great English mill towns, to understand the economic importance of India to England...