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...firm of Hart, Schaffner & Marx, the largest concern in the clothing industry, has attracted wide attention by its progressive labor policy. Since 1910, when it adopted the preferential Union shop system, it has had no strikes, although the clothing industry elsewhere has been troubled by constant industrial warfare. This firm employs at times a force of 10,000 workers...
...seems likely that the new Mexican regime realizes this as well as the necessity for negotiating help from the United States. If this be true we see no reason why we should not be able to assist Mexico to escape from the revolutionary morass and go forward on firm ground. Mexico greatly needs foreign capital and we cannot afford that other foreign capital than ours should predominate. We can afford to provide capital for Mexican development and thereby serve both Mexico's welfare and our own. There need be no exploitation, in the evil sense of the term. We have...
...this is both to say that we have here a volume of essays in the best tradition, marked by sympathy, quiet humor, and keen judgment, expressed in a style as nearly perfect as one could demand. "Every Man's Natural Desire" and "The Hibernation of Genius" are about as firm as anything we have in the field of English essays...
...Steel and Iron Company, and the Platt Iron Works of Dayton, Ohio. During the war be held the very responsible position of chairman of the war committee of the United States Chamber of Commerce. He is now engaged on the constructural side of banking as a member of the firm of Goldman, Sachs and Company of New York City...
...diplomats, however, are not to be too severely criticised. They are but playing the game as they have known it all their lives. Were America-participating in this first meeting, or had Mr. Wilson been a little more firm, matters might be different. But America is not as yet in a position to make suggestions; and Mr. Wilson, upon arriving in Paris with the Fourteen Points, entered (according to H. G. Wells' "Outline History of the World War") into the secrecy of the council-chamber, leaving Point One behind him at the door...