Word: steps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During his undergraduate years, Mr. Lamont was President of the CRIMSON and prominent in many other college activities. After graduation he became a reporter on the New York Tribune and later secretary and treasurer of the Bankers' Trust Company. Some time after this step he became Vice-President of the First National Bank of New York and he has been a member of the firm of J. P. Morgan and Company since...
...League of Nations session at Geneva, there has been much debating on the question of international disarmament, during the course of which many theories, both practical and impractical, have been promulgated. But while suggestions were plentiful, no nation or group of nations offered to take the initial step toward carrying them out, and for a time it seemed as if the whole subject would and in mere talk...
...first step is an agreement on a constitution providing usually for a board of arbitration. Executive control is left in the hands of the employer but subject to the limitations of the agreement and the decrees of the board. The representatives of the employees usually labor union officials, strive through the board to extent these limitations to in hibit all acts of the employer which the employees or their officials conceive to be of any disadvantage to themselves. The system resembles a constitutional monarchy...
...successful they can then be tried elsewhere, and the nine years' success of this experiment now becomes a challenge to forward looking workers and employers who want to take the first step in the journey to industrial peace...
True to their pledge to put the country on a peace time basis the Republican majority took the first step by repealing almost all of the strictly war-time legislation. The resolution, which was adopted by a unanimous vote in the House, declares that acts which owe their existence to a state of war shall be "administered as if the present war terminated on the date when this resolution becomes effective." Trading with the enemy, Liberty Loan enactments and those connected with the War Finance Corporation are the chief exceptions to the laws that will go, and should have gone...