Word: actions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...November 1 and 2, a conference of the Student Volunteer Union of Greater Boston will be held in the Gordon Bible College, 30 Evans Way, Boston. Representatives of the University and of many other institutions interested in student volunteer work will gather there to discuss various plans of constructive action. The meeting will be addressed by many men prominent in the missionary field, among whom are: R. P. Wilder, General Secretary of the Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions, New York, H. C. Stuntz, resident Bishop of Nebraska; D. Brewer Eddy, Associate Secretary of the American Board of Commissioners...
...from the Middle West, and possibly from the less evident, but all-powerful gas and electric light interests. New York City, by passing its own daylight saving ordinance, shows that it realizes the manifold benefits accruing from the Federal enactment and that it does not plan to await Congressional action...
...majority must rule. The objection of many who decry chronological isolation is answered by those communities and industrial organizations which had daylight saving ordinances of their own in pre-war times and suffered not at all from the experience. Let us stand solidly behind Boston and Massachusetts in any action insuring for us those innumerable benefits which we have enjoyed during the past two summers...
...week, a six-hour day and a sixty percent increase in wages; these are the demands of the United Mine Workers of America. Unless they are satisfied in full, a strike is to be called on all the union bituminous fields in the nation. The result of such action can best be summed up in the words of president Wilson: "All interests would be affected alike by a strike of this character, and its victims would be not the rich only, but the poor and needy as well, those least able to provide in advance a fuel supply for domestic...
...clock this afternoon the undefeated University nine will play the sixth game of the autumn season when it meets the South Boston Collegians, a semi-professional team. Coach Slattery will have the first opportunity of seeing his team in action this afternoon, and he will be in full charge of the game...