Word: trading
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...following subjects are offered in the program of instruction of the special session: accounting, law, marketing, industrial management, business statistics, general business problems, foreign trade, banking and finance, lumbering, and office organization and devices, the last of which does not count towards any degree. Men who have already taken the first half of full regular courses in previous sessions of the School will take the courses of the second half of the special session. During the academic year 1919-1920, beginning on September 22, 1919, it is expected that all courses previously given in the School and omitted during...
Three other prizes were given to undergraduates in the competition as follows: one of $100 to Martin Luther Hope '19, of Eldorado, Mo., for an essay entitled "Thomas Hardy"; one of $50 to Carl Schmalz '19, of Huntly, Ill., whose subject was "The Fur Trade (1600-1700)"; and a third of $50 to Robert Pierce Casey '19, of Dorchester, who wrote on "The Fatherhood of God in the Teaching of Jesus...
These men had something more to say to the trade-unionists of Great Britain and France than that organized labor in the United States is pledged to the last man and the last dollar in support of the war. Their mission abroad comprehended also the assurance to working-men everywhere that there is no sympathy in this country with the extremists and visionaries, deriving their inspiration chiefly from German sources, who hope by an inconclusive peace to instigate a war of classes and repeat on a larger scale the follies which in Russia have protrated industry and for the time...
...Jersey is the best known and the most comprehensive of the new acts, and differs radically from any previous economic legislation. All able bodied male residents of the state between the ages of eighteen and fifty years are required to be engaged regularly in some lawful and recognized employment, trade or profession until the end of the war. A minimum of thirty-six hours of labor a week is also set. But the law does not stop with the definition of the crime; it was enacted to be effective and severe penalties are included for non-compliance with its provisions...
...upon taking new and untrained men into their employ, are offering these beginners an opportunity to learn a job first and then start working at it. The Remington Arms, Union Metallic Cartridge Company, for example, has established a training school for new men, where the latter are taught a trade, and after they have completed a thorough course at this school they go to work at the machines...