Word: working
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...good pitchers, Coach Duff's task in developing a winning nine was unusually difficult this spring. W. T. Reid '01 was called to assist him about the middle of the season, after a long losing streak, and his aid was instrumental in bringing about a decided improvement in the work of the nine...
...University suffered its fourth successive defeat by losing to Holy Cross 8-6. Two bad innings, in each of which the visitors scored four runs, gave the Holy Cross nine the game. With the exception of the third and sixth sessions the work of the University nine was much improved...
There is always a great economic need for fresh capital, and just now the work of supplying enterprise with needed money, by reason of post-war conditions, take on new importance. We are the largest house of our kind in America, handling only the cleanest, high-grade financial investment. The sale capacity of the house runs into million annually. It has twenty-two branch offices and plans to expand to a total of seventy-five branches. We have forty thousand clients. Our aim is to increate this to one hundred thousand within a year. The last enterprise handled...
...sound to crumble like that of Russia and that Mr. Gompers was exaggerating to carry a point, nevertheless we believe national prohibition will involve grave economic consequences. According to the labor leaders of St. Louis, twenty-five thousand men in that city alone will be thrown out of work. Throughout the Middle West, in Missouri, Illinois, and Wisconsin, the same story can be told; thousands of men trained to a certain trade suddenly thrown on the mercy of the country. No handicraft during the period of the industrial Revolution was ever more thoroughly put out of business by the introduction...
Apart from all economic considerations the effects of national prohibition on the temper of the laboring classes will be most alarming. Whether it has been scientifically proven that hard work needs a stimulant or not makes no difference to the worker. He believes he needs that stimulant and resents bitterly interference with what he considers his personal liberty. Foreign agitators can seize this opportunity of pointing out that the government of the United States is as despotic as any in Europe and that the only means of salvation for working men is to do away with all government...