Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...been definitely decided by the Executive Committee of the Harvard Dramatic Club, in consultation with the Advisory Board, that the club will suspend all activities for the duration of the War. No dues will be collected and no elections, either of officers or members, will be held during the period. When the normal life of the College is resumed after the War a production will be made under the direction of one or more of the present officers and new officers and members elected immediately afterwards. Thus the organization will be kept intact...
...discharged and new men taken on in an equally careless way. This creates a very large turnover of labor that is wasteful to the employers and demoralizing to the men. Now that the Government is an unusually large employer and has on hand, the business of winning the greatest war in history all avoidable waste of material and time and all needless stirring up of the laborers are not to be tolerated...
...lend your money to the Government, you may be quite sure that it is going to be used for some national purpose--to prosecute the war successfully, to care for, equip, arm, and supply our soldiers in France, to be used by our Navy in ridding the seas of the murderous U boats...
First, you have withdrawn from the supply of material of the Nation something to replace which in the market will require labor and material which should be devoted to war purposes...
Second, the person to whom you pay your money may also use it to purchase things requiring material and labor which should be devoted to war purposes. And the person to whom he pays it may repeat the operation...