Three documents, two letters and one detailed report. First, Elton Mayos letter to G.A. Pennock dated February 9, 1931, concerning the status of the Western Electric experiments and the importance of studying how fatigue, morale, preoccupation...
Describes the results of the test began April 25, 1927, concerning the effect of rest periods on the productivity of six girls who performed relay assembly work. These six participants were moved into the test room and their productivity was...
Unfinished rough draft that concentrates on determining under what conditions people perform their best work. Records were kept of each test employees amount of sleep, diet, attendance, comments, physical examinations, and earnings. The temperature...
Text of two interviews of two employees, just as they were leaving after being laid off. They both feel they were treated fairly regarding the layoff and both would like to return when times are better. The second interviewee complains about his...
April 13, 1931, G.A. Pennock sent C.W. Bergquist a report titled: An Account of the Work of the Industrial Research Division. The Industrial Research Division was established in January, 1929 to centralize the test room study, the employee...
Kroff enlisted in Company ""F"" of the 11th Indiana Infantry Volunteers on July 12, 1861, at the age of 23. The diary describes his experiences during four years and one month of service: the battles, the news he heard about...
A proposed act asking William Bryant, Principal Chief of the Nation, to request of the Secretary of the Interior a complete copy of all claims under the 12th article of Treaty of 1855. Passed House March 18, 1872. Passed Senate and was approved...
Spencer Academy was to be governed by and under the control of the said Board of Missions in compliance with the laws of the Nation. Approved in November 1842. Passed and approved October 23, 1876
Bill No. 5. A proposed act making requisition for certain funds under the judgment of the Court of Claims as the U.S. in favor of the Choctaw Nation. Passed and approved February 25, 1888.
A proposed act making provision for the payment of amounts due under the contracts made by the delegation of 1853 with Luce, McKee and Blunt, and directing the National Treasurer to pay to said persons the amount due each. Passed and approved...
A proposed act making distribution of the Net Proceeds money arising under judgment of the court of claims of the U.S. Passed Senate November 5, 1888. Passed House and approved November 6, 1888.
A proposed act to amend the act making distribution of the net proceeds money arising under the judgment of the Court of Claims of the United States. Approved November 6, 1888. Passed Senate January 17, 1889. Passed house and approved January 18,...
An act for the protection of the interest of orphans in the money arising from the sale of the leased district under an act of Congress. Approved March 3, 1891. Passed and approved April 11, 1891.
An act authorizing distribution per capita of the money due the Choctaw Nation for the sale of a portion of leased district under act of Congress approved March 3, 1891. Passed and approved April 11, 1891.
Bill No. 1. An act making appropriation for compensation of the Choctaw and Chickasaws for their interest in the lands lying south of the Canadian River, and occupied under executive order of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians. Passed and approved...
Bill No. 17. An act fixing the salary of the trustee under the Atoka Agreement. Passed House October 24, 1899. Passed Senate and approved October 25, 1899. Approved by McKinley December 8, 1899.
A letter from J. George Wright to Mr. S.J. Homer concerning "" an act fixing the salary of the Trustee under the Atoka agreement."" Dated December 19, 1899.
A resolution dissenting from the statutory allowance of $50.00 per mile as compensation for right-of-way of the Gainesville, McAlester and St. Louis Railway Co. through the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations under the act of Congress. Approved March 1,...
An act authorizing the appointment of allotment commissioners whose duty it shall be to assist citizens under the direction of the commission to the Five Civilized Tribes. Passed and approved October 29, 1903.
Bill No. 27. A resolution authorizing the Principal Chief to take definite action to insure the delivery of the patents to the allottees under the treaties. Passed and approved November 21, 1905.
Bill No. 97. Proposed act providing for the paying of Freedman per capita as set apart under the 3rd act of Treaty of 1866. Passed and approved November 5, 1885.
Bill No. 2. An act providing for the compensation and expenses of McCurtain and Hill, as General Council, for the Choctaw Nation employed under section 28 of the act of congress, approved April 26, 1906. Passed House and Senate October 15, 1907....
Bill No. 24. Resolution requesting the Secretary of the Interior to revoke the order withdrawing pine lands from allotment and to permit citizens to file on the same under certain restrictions. Passed by Senate and House and approved October 28,...
Two copies of a letter from Paul McKennon of Clarksville, Arkansas to R.L. Kidd, a former newspaperman in Poteau, Oklahoma. This letter contains explanations of how criminals were punished under Seminole law (1940).
Letter 1940 1 item Collector. A letter (1940) written by Paul McKennon, recounting his experiences in the Seminole Nation (1894-1896) with an explanation of how criminals were punished under Seminole law.
Does insensitivity underlie continuing discrimination against women; The changing population characteristics ; Why Nordstrom's must fail; Who are the market-value leaders in retailing?; Policies on figts to employees; Short shorts; The 1984...
Automated collections; Griffin Bell condones corruptness in E.F. Hutton; A specialty may be great, but it doesn’t last forever; Bad handling of numbers; Good handling of numbers; Are debit cards a good deal for retailers?; How customer-oriented...
How do you classify The Broadway?;Thanks to TRW for words we should never forget; Corporations have had it too good under the tax law; Speaking of households and families; Do we have a 5-year plan for us, the society?; Circle K operates with little...
What About Sunday Openings?; Leased Equipment and Property Taxes; The F.T.C. and Inducing Discriminatory Allowances; The Ethics of Data Accumulation—Revisited; What Attracts a Clerical Worker?; Constitutional Rights When There is a Citizen's...
Ethics at Federated; Giant Stores Revisited; Bringing the F.B.I. under Control; Retailers Love to Gamble; Costly False Advertising; The Risk of Selling Credit Customer Lists; Commercial Bribery; Carter's Token Female as Secretary of Commerce; Do...
Irresponsibility at AT&T; The high cost of interactive retailing; New Year resolutions worth repeating; Are you surrounded by "yes-men"?; More from great-grandfather Baum's diary; What is your "market value added"?; The...
Not enough retailers are active in NOD; Who will take the next step; Although this was written before Christmas…; A good turn that deserves recognition; Who coined the term "associate"?; Should we accept the conclusions of these...