Word: steps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fully than in the United States the recognition by law of "joint control" goes back several years. In England, for example, the Miners' Minimum Wage Act of 1921 gave statutory powers in the matter of fixing wages to joint boards of miners and mine owners. In Germany the first step toward the legal recognition of the workers' right to participate in management dates from 1891 when an act was passed amending the Industrial Code...
...will be seen that it is but a short step from this interest by the employee and his representatives to a popular demand for what may be termed scientific methods...
...seems hardly credible that this should be the case,--that those who are best able to know the good work the school is doing should be so poorly represented in its membership. The only reason which can be ascribed is that it is considered so easy a matter to step over to University Hall and register that it has been quite as easily postponed...
...close touch with Yale rowing, ever since the Yale-Cornell race. Far-reaching and very vital changes in the system are expected to result from the appointment of Mr. Corderry, changes both in the type of rowing and in the rigging of the Yale shells. Many considered it a step backward, for instance, when Mr. Nickalls reintroduced the thole-pin in the outriggers in place of the lock now in universal use in this country; his insistence on the flat slide has also been criticised...
...incorporate it with the welfare proposal into a combined Department of Education and Welfare? This is not ideal, but at least it offers a common-sense way of satisfying the demand for a closer organization of the welfare activities of the Government and at the same time takes a step forward in national leadership and encouragement of education. Congressional leaders interested in education are agreed upon such a compromise; General Sawyer has said he would accept it, and it should not prove difficult to convince the President that if there must be one department, with welfare included, it should...