A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, 1789-1922, Volume 15Bureau of national literature and art, 1917 - Presidents |
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Page 7122
... Labor . This commission was engaged for several months in conference with a similar commission appointed by the German Government , under instructions , so far as practicable , to reach a common understanding as to all the facts ...
... Labor . This commission was engaged for several months in conference with a similar commission appointed by the German Government , under instructions , so far as practicable , to reach a common understanding as to all the facts ...
Page 7123
... Labor it was wholly unnecessary for the due collection of the customs revenues , and the attempt to defend it merely illustrates the demoralization which naturally follows from a long continued course of reliance upon such methods . I ...
... Labor it was wholly unnecessary for the due collection of the customs revenues , and the attempt to defend it merely illustrates the demoralization which naturally follows from a long continued course of reliance upon such methods . I ...
Page 7126
... labor and capital , and between the great corporations and the public . The Supreme Court has decided the employers ' liability law to be unconstitutional because its terms apply to employees engaged wholly in intrastate commerce as ...
... labor and capital , and between the great corporations and the public . The Supreme Court has decided the employers ' liability law to be unconstitutional because its terms apply to employees engaged wholly in intrastate commerce as ...
Page 7127
... labor . The rates of compensation and the regulations for its payment should be specified in the law , and the machinery for determining the amount to be paid should in each case be provided in such manner that the employee is properly ...
... labor . The rates of compensation and the regulations for its payment should be specified in the law , and the machinery for determining the amount to be paid should in each case be provided in such manner that the employee is properly ...
Page 7128
... labor cases . As regards the rights and wrongs of labor and capital , from blacklisting to boycotting , the whole subject is covered in admirable fashion by the report of the Anthracite Coal Strike Commission , which report should serve ...
... labor cases . As regards the rights and wrongs of labor and capital , from blacklisting to boycotting , the whole subject is covered in admirable fashion by the report of the Anthracite Coal Strike Commission , which report should serve ...
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Page 7135 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive...
Page 7136 - In the execution of such a plan nothing is more essential than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular nations and passionate attachments for others should be excluded ; and that in place of them just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated.
Page 7537 - An Act to enable the people of New Mexico to form a constitution and state government and be admitted to the Union on an equal footing with the original states; and to enable the people of Arizona to form a constitution and state government and be admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original states" approved June twentieth, nineteen hundred and ten, it is hereby provided: Section 1.
Page 7205 - Meyer, of the Bureau of Plant Industry of the United States Department of Agriculture...
Page 7338 - Bureau shall investigate and report * * * upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people...
Page 7171 - That any person that shall knowingly make a false affidavit for such purpose shall be deemed guilty of perjury and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by...
Page 7136 - The United States ought not to indulge a persuasion that, contrary to the order of human events, they will forever keep at a distance those painful appeals to arms with which the history of every other nation abounds. There is a rank due to the United States among nations, which will be withheld, if not absolutely lust, by the reputation of weakness.
Page 7211 - ... for the purpose of collecting such statistics and facts as shall show the condition and progress of education in the several States and Territories, and of diffusing such information respecting the organization and management of schools and school systems, and methods of teaching, as shall aid the people of the United States in the establishment and maintenance of efficient school systems and otherwise promote the cause of education throughout the country.
Page 7577 - To the Senate of the United States: With a view to receiving the advice and consent of the Senate to ratification...
Page 7459 - The convention providing for the settlement of international differences between the United States and Canada, including the apportionment between the two countries of certain of the boundary waters and the appointment of commissioners to adjust certain other questions...