Word: railroaded
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Smolev '15 won the Pasteur Debating Medal in the fourteenth annual contest held in Fogg Lecture Room last evening. Nine contestants spoke on various phases of the subject "Resolved, That a Strike by Postal or Railroad Workers in the Service of the French Republic should be deemed a Criminal Offense...
...these revolutionary instigators. But under the present condition of affairs such a plan would be impossible. There is, then, but one way to meet the baneful influence of this element, namely, make it understood that the government will consider a strike of postal or railroad employees in the nature of a crime, virtually treason against the state...
...Witkin '14 treated the question from a purely practical standpoint. Government employees acting in postal or railroad positions are identical with employees of private corporations, and as such ought to have the right to seek an amelioration of their condition. Past history has shown that parliamentary action is useless. Hence the only satisfactory method is by open strike...
...Kaplan '14, F. F. Greenman '14, I. Levin '14, J. A. Donovan '13, H. H. Breland '12, S. M. Seymour '13, S. S. Smolev '15, A. A. Berle, Jr., '13. Each contestant will speak for ten minutes on the following subject: "Resolved, That a Strike by Postal or Railroad Workers in the Service of the French Republic Should be Deemed a Criminal Offense." The judges will be L. J. A. Mercier, of the French Department; Professor I. L. Winter '86, of the Public Speaking Department; and R. M. Hull '04 of the Department of Government. Dr. A. N. Holcombe...
...Lecture on "The Unit System of Railroad Operating Organization" by Major Charles De Lano Hine in Emerson...