Word: pointings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...known as employment managers. In spite of a certain overemphasis that has tended to make us regard somewhat cynically efficiency experts in general, the need for them in all matters pertaining to labor is becoming increasingly apparent. While the selling of material commodities has become organized to the highest point, the selling of labor has been done for the most part in a completely haphazard manner. Trade unions have had some effect; private and semi-public labor exchanges have helped towards efficiency, but they have in general signally failed to organize the labor market even in the skilled trades...
...convention will be opened at 3.30 o'clock this afternoon by Arthur Beane '11. At 4 o'clock Corporal George Steward, of Camp Devens, will discuss prohibition from the point of view of the soldier. The relation of the liquor traffic to other social problems will be taken up by Professor L. J. Johnson, of the Engineering Department at M. I. T., who will speak at 4.30 o'clock...
...most notable demonstrations of Saturday's parade, from the patriotic and historic point of view, occurred when the battalion of veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic marched up. Tremont street and approached the densely-packed stand at the corner of Boylston street. As soon as the old Boys in Blue came in sight (they were led by a drummer who was also a veteran of the Civil War), every person in the stand stood and shouted, while the men who fought for the flag and liberty more than fifty years ago paraded proudly, with eyes to the front...
...takes but a few words to point out the accomplishments of the year's time. A great army has passed through the beginnings of training and a considerable force is already in France. Twenty billions of our national wealth have been apportioned for our Allies and for our own participation in the war. Ships have been produced as never before. Our navy has become a real force of protection. We have come to supply huge populations with our food products and national resources. And so it runs in every phase of our national life. There have been many mistakes...
...other point is that, should the German army, in its next effort towards the west, succeed in breaking the line south or southwest of Amiens, it will then be faced by a problem which its method of advance renders especially difficult. The Germans, since 1870, have consistently employed the methods of what are known as linear strategy; that is, each group of the army advances along its own line of communication, along closely delimited and parallel battle strips. This virtually compels the army to advance in a straight line. And, if a change of direction, as is indicated...