Word: wage
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...with the production of war materials. Professor Frankfurter will co-ordinate the industrial sections of the War and Navy Departments, the Shipping Board, the Department of Agriculture and the War Industries Board. Heretofore all these department have acted independently in obtaining their labor supply and in deciding wage problems...
Happy-go-lucky Americanism always has been speculative, but seldom a security investor. Here and there is the home owner. Overtopping him by a vast majority has been the renting wage-worker, the spender, the taker of chances and the come-easy-go-easy type of citizen. In a land of abundance, frugality and thrift have held their places only spasmodically and among the minority...
...rejecting by a vote of seven to two the nomination of Professor William Z. Ripley for membership on the minimum wage commission, the executive council acted as if it thought he were Professor Holcombe. Most of the criticism of Ripley would fit the prevailing estimates of Holcombe and his work on this body. Doubtless the latter did much to create the atmosphere, as to colleges and college professors, which has reacted against the Governor's latest nominee...
...believe Professor Ripley would make a good commissioner, and that Governor McCall would do well to renew the nomination with the new council soon to take office. Ripley has had varied experience in practical affairs as well as in academic life. He believes in the minimum wage idea, and we could hardly expect a board to do less than be sympathetic with the purposes for which it was founded. With one member representing the manufacturers and another labor, the occupant of the place for which the Governor nominated Professor Ripley virtually shapes the policy of the board and so should...
...appeal to the men of our colleges and universities to throw their energies into the winning of this war--which we are pledged to wage till "justice and mercy" prevail among the nations of the earth--would savor of the gratuitous. From our colleges and universities have gone forth thousands--thousands of our best, physically and mentally. Our student ranks throughout the country are riddled...