Word: creation
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...distress may be caused, few strikes can succeed without the backing of public opinion. As soon as popular sentiment has crystallized one way or the other, the strike is won or lost. Consequently, not only the most expedient but the faired dissaray of eliminating strikes would be by the creation of a government board of experts with full power to investigate industrial disputes and publish broadcast its findings. If this board consisted of experts of unimpeachable fairness--men like the late Henry D. Endicott--trusted by capital and labor alike, its recommendations would decide the issue. For either the employers...
...Curiously enough, those who were most eager for the program of an ambitious League were the first to criticise the creation of such commissions and their tasks. But if one of the chief objects of such a League is to promote world peace, surely the Franco-German frontier is an important point for it to watch. And if the League can ease the tension here by acting as a sort of shock-absorber, protecting at the same time the property rights of France and the personal rights of the inhabitants, it will serve another interest no less important than peace...
...literally gave his life in the cause for which during the last eleven years, he had made such a gallant and successful fight. The great buildings on the Cambridge bank of the Charles are his monument, the rank of Tech as the greatest scientific school in the country, his creation...
...Covenant is largely and essential-ally an American document. First, America led the way in the creation of the League. As Dean Haskins said recently in Sanders Theatre, we should ratify promptly in order to "save our self-respect." Very concrete evidence is at hand to show that the Covenant is essentially American. Article X is practically a verbal reproduction of President Wilson's fourteenth point. This Article has been called one "heart" of the Covenant...
...that the thing has another heart--that is, Article XVI. In his letter to Senator Walsh he says that he introduced into the program of the League to Enforce Peace the third provision relating to economic and military sanctions, the teeth of the League. When the Commission on the creation of a Covenant for a League called for the programs of the League of Nations organizations of the various nations the program of the League to Enforce Peace figured very strongly and its essential features were incorporated into the document, Article XVI being part of the fifth plank...