Prologue: The Journal of the National Archives

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National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration, 1998 - Archives

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Page 8 - No triumph of peace is quite so great as the supreme triumphs of war.
Page 76 - I am a member of the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences which are respectively the oldest and next oldest learned societies in the United States today.
Page 146 - Any woman who is now or may hereafter be married to a citizen of the United States, and who might herself be lawfully naturalized, shall be deemed a citizen.
Page 128 - Whenever in the opinion of the Government of the United States, the coming of Chinese laborers to the United States, or their residence therein, affects or threatens to affect the interests of that country, or to endanger the good order of the said country or of any locality within the territory thereof...
Page 249 - During the campaign he said that it "was no time to be weighing the claims of old soldiers with apothecary's scales...
Page 153 - When any alien, who has complied with the first condition specified in section twenty-one hundred and sixty-five, dies before he is actually naturalized, the widow and the children of such alien shall be considered as citizens of the United States, and shall be entitled to all rights and privileges as such, upon taking the oaths prescribed by law.
Page 269 - President be, and he is hereby, authorized to receive into the service of the United States, for the purpose of constructing intrenchments, or performing camp service, or any other labor, or any military or naval service for which they may be found competent, persons of African descent...
Page 52 - Explosions of Ammonium Nitrate Fertilizer on Board the SS Grandcamp and SS High Flyer at Texas City, Texas, April 16, 17, 1947, Department of the Interior.
Page 36 - Cuba, including all ports on said coast between Cardenas and Bahia Honda and the port of Cienfuegos on the south coast of Cuba...
Page 36 - States and to call into the actual service of the United States the militia of the several States to such extent as might be necessary to carry said resolution into effect...

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