Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...There are two men who are absolutely necessary in this war if we are to win," continued the visitor, "one of these is the commander-in-chief, the other is the platoon leader. The former makes the plans for the army and issues orders. Then the various divisional, brigade, and regimental officers repeat these commands after camouflaging them in different ways. It is the platoon leader who carries out these orders, and he alone is responsible for the success of them all. If he knows his own job, and knows it thoroughly, backwards and upside down, as he should...
Labor is not entitled to any special privileges in its contribution to the winning of the war, but it is entitled to a square deal. Good wages and fair hours--long hours and hard work, all this is no more than what our boys are joyfully, cheerfully giving in camp and at the front. But Uncle Sam is doing everything in his power to make life wholesome and clean for these boys and the country has responded with unexampled generosity to every appeal. This is splendid and what it should...
Contrast this with the condition of mechanics who are giving equally of their best to win this war. They are not given even decent conditions under which to do their work. They rush to the yards and the factories in response to the call and find not only no place provided for them to live, but no protection from the sharks who take advantage of the demand for rooms and houses to raise all the cost of living. It is no wonder that we have a disastrous turn-over of labor. Nor is anything done to protect and care...
...York in 1902, Professor Frankfurter was graduated with highest honors from the Law School in 1906. In the summer of that year he was appointed Assistant United States District Attorney in New York, and in 1911 was appointed law officer of the Bureau of Insular Affars in the War Department, acting as chief legal advisor of the colonial administration. He was appointed in 1914 head of a new department in the University...
...last contest in which several of the University players will appear. No future efforts will serve to offset what defeat has brought them. They have entered a larger service than athletic activity. As they go, Harvard honors them and their leader, who have contributed so much toward establishing war-time sport and who now no longer participate in that which they have so created...