Word: nationalities
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Federal House of Representatives has passed the Susan B. Anthony Bill, the first step towards the constitutional amendment enfranchising the women of the nation. During the past five years the suffragists have made a gallant fight for political equality. Some aspects of that fight have been condemned. Others have been praised. The net result was the passage by the lower branch of the National Legislature of the desired bill...
What the President has called on Secretary Wilson to do is tore-form his department and align it with the needs of the army, the navy, the nation. The new establishment will include a countrywide system of labor exchanges, all under one direction; a plan for the adequate training of workers, as agency to direct the supply of labor to the industries essential to the public welfare, instruments for the adjustment of disputes and machinery to safeguard workers at their tasks and in their homes...
Only now are some citizens awakening to the fact that in this war the whole power of the nation must be exerted. We cannot win victory in the conflict unless every atom of our energy is directed to one end. Mobilizing man power means more than putting armies in the field. It means that in all forges and shops, on all transportation lines, on all farms, the unified strength of every American will be exercised under competent guidance to the achievement of a common purpose. --New York...
...work which the President is trying to accomplish should not be held up by a few small boys in Congress who, for almost a year, have been making faces at the administration's proposals before they have been put through. Such antics are bad for both Congress and the nation; in the case of the new railroad legislation may they for once be avoided...
...nature are presented when attempts are made to improve our airplanes or detect the enemy's submarines. Indeed, it is hard to think of an important phase of the war problems of today without raising scientific questions that none but well-trained scientists can be expected to answer. The nation that has a large supply of such men has an immeasurable advantage in the present conflict on the outcome of which the liberty and tranquillity of the world in the future so largely depends