We then visited the persons named by these gentlemen, for our organization committee, and when we had found eleven willing to serve, a kind friend in West 22d St., Mrs. Hanford Smith, gave us the use of her parlors for our meeting. A more gloomy committee has been seldom seen. "Have you a room for a library?" was asked. "No." "Any money?" "No." "Any books?" "No." "Absurd! How do you expect to start such a work?" "On faith." Next a vote was taken whether to organize or not. It was decided to organize. Edward Chichester was elected president, Mr.英文原著 · 《Library Work with Children》
Then came a publicity of a different sort. Barnum became a legislator for his State, and even, in 1875, Mayor of Bridgeport. Why not? The man who can organize the amusements of the people may very well be trusted to organize a few of their laws for them.英文原著 · 《Life of Hon. Phineas T. Barnum》
So soon as General Sherman had concluded the expression of his views, Mr. Cameron asked, with much warmth and apparent irritation, "Where do you suppose, General Sherman, all this force is to come from." General Sherman replied that he did not know; that it was not his duty to raise, organize, and put the necessary military force into the field; that duty pertained to the War Department. His duty was to organize campaigns and command the troops after they had been put into the field.英文原著 · 《Memoirs of General William T. Sherman-1》
The movement can most clearly be discerned in the cities. Philadelphia claims precedence as the home of the first Trades' Union. The master cordwainers had organized a society in 1792, and their journeymen had followed suit two years later. The experiences and vicissitudes of these shoemakers furnished a useful lesson to other tradesmen, many of whom were organized into unions. But they were isolated organizations, each one fighting its own battles. In 1897 the Mechanics' Union of Trade Associations was formed. Of its significance John R. Commons says:英文原著 · 《The Armies of Labor》
'In the vast and complicated mechanism of our modern civilized life, the dominant note is the note of industrialism, and the relations of capital and labor, and especially of organized capital and organized labor, to each other, and to the public at large, come second in importance only to the intimate questions of family life.'英文原著 · 《Theodore Roosevelt》
And then I shall talk to my heart's content," he added. "When is the ball?"
"Why, to-morrow! Do you not know, then? A great festival -- and the local authorities have undertaken to organize it" . "Let us go to the boulevard" . "Not on any account, in this nasty cloak" . "What! Have you ceased to love it?" .英文原著 · 《A Hero of Our Time》
I recently lost all my money and the promise of a bright future, and I've organized that into a file in my head美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
Hey, genius organizer, why don't you put all that garbage in a file labeled美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》