Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...CRIMSON takes great pleasure in announcing the election of Franklin Eddy Parker, Jr., '18, of Bay City, Mich., as President; of George Carey Barclay '19, of New York, N. Y., as Managing Editor; of Bryaton Fuller Wilson '20, of Cambridge, as Secretary. The CRIMSON also takes pleasure in announcing the election of Frederick Marcus Warburg '19, of New York, N. Y., and Nathaniel Lothrop Harris '19, of Dedham, to the Editorial Department; of Thomal Hubbard Gammack '20, of Fitchburg, Robert Byron Williamson '20, of Augusta, Me., Fifield Workum '20, of New York, N. Y., and Henry Dunster Costigan...
President Wilson's order for the reorganization of the Department of Labor means that the United States has learned one great lesson in the war. The Government now recognizes that this successful prosecution of the military campaign requires the mobilization, distribution and conservation of workers. It is a lesson we should have learned from the experience of other nations; indeed, we did have a value notion of the importance of intelligent supervision of labor when we entered the struggle. But the actual necessities of the case were not comprehended until our own errors and mistakes enforced them...
What the President has called on Secretary Wilson to do is tore-form his department and align it with the needs of the army, the navy, the nation. The new establishment will include a countrywide system of labor exchanges, all under one direction; a plan for the adequate training of workers, as agency to direct the supply of labor to the industries essential to the public welfare, instruments for the adjustment of disputes and machinery to safeguard workers at their tasks and in their homes...
...Roosevelt, after graduating from the University, took a degree at the Columbia Law School. Three years of practice on the New York bar preceded his election to the senate of the Empire state in 1910. He became Assistant Secretary of the Navy under the Wilson administration in 1913. At the last election for members of the University Board of Overseers, Mr. Roosevelt was one of the nominees chosen...
...supposed that President Wilson is so divinely guided that legislation proposed by him is neither to be added to nor taken away from, yet in this case it is essential that action be quick and that opposition be reduced to a minimum. There is, unfortunately, a great possibility that the same radical elements which have made themselves felt before will oppose the measure on the ground that many roads will continue extravagant management and dividends of unnecessary size; they may do their utmost to so reduce the compensation and restrict the owners that some roads will not be able...