Word: mr
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mr. Castle was born in Honolulu, and his father was King Kalakaua's minister in Washington. He was graduated from Harvard in 1000 and was an instructor and assistant dean here from 1904 to 1913, During the American participation in the World War, he was director of the bureau of communications of the American Red Cross. Entering the state department as a special assistant in 1919, he was gradually promoted until he reached his present position of assistant secretary of state...
...living pianists whose sense of humor is frequently manifest in his playing. For the past season he has been in charge of the teaching of piano at the University School of Music at Ann Arbor, Michigan, in addition to giving about 50 joint recitals with Mr. Pattison...
...Mr. Watkins has been observing conditions in the coal industry in the Illinois and West Virginia fields. He described the miserable circumstances which surround the lives of some of the miners in West Virginia as disgraceful to the United States. He presented, however, a bright picture of the alleviating influence exerted on the miners by what he termed "family paternalism" on the part of some operators. He protested against the prevalent belief that all American laborers possess automobiles radios, and all modern conveniences. He remarked that in the course of his survey he had found localities where men and women...
...explained that, up to the present time, the expansion of industry and the mobility of labor, which follows demand, have served to prevent unemployment from growing into a national problem such as it is in England. Though reliable governmental statistics relative to unemployment in the United States are wanting. Mr. Watkins predicted that it will become a great problem within a few generations and will seriously affect prosperity
...concluding his talk. Mr. Watkins presented two alternative futures for American industry. He admitted as possible the success of the "New Capital", which involves labor stock holding and profit sharing. But he favors the view that overproduction and unemployment will combine to place American Industry in a state of decline