Proceedings, Volume 49U.S. Government Printing Office, 1916 - United States Vol. 83 contains final report of the finances from 1949 to the closing of the organization in 1956. |
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... MEMORIAL DAY . Memorial Day seemed to be generally observed this " peace year with more than ordinary interest . The comrades are more and more in favor of keeping this day separate and apart from practices com- mon on other holidays ...
... MEMORIAL DAY . Memorial Day seemed to be generally observed this " peace year with more than ordinary interest . The comrades are more and more in favor of keeping this day separate and apart from practices com- mon on other holidays ...
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... memorial at this time . Senior Vice Commander in Chief CONNER . Just a minute . I have a duty to perform . As has been the usual custom , I will appoint as a committee on the commander's address , Past Commander in Chief James Tanner ...
... memorial at this time . Senior Vice Commander in Chief CONNER . Just a minute . I have a duty to perform . As has been the usual custom , I will appoint as a committee on the commander's address , Past Commander in Chief James Tanner ...
Page 66
... memorial to Clara Barton should be erected in the Capital of the Nation . Resolved , That we commend this proposition to the membership in every de- partment of our order as worthy of individual support and that the incoming commander ...
... memorial to Clara Barton should be erected in the Capital of the Nation . Resolved , That we commend this proposition to the membership in every de- partment of our order as worthy of individual support and that the incoming commander ...
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... memorial to the attention of the patriotic bodies now in session in this city . 4. In order to provide for the expenses of an organization , we recommend a contribution of 1 cent per member annually . This resolution is offered by the ...
... memorial to the attention of the patriotic bodies now in session in this city . 4. In order to provide for the expenses of an organization , we recommend a contribution of 1 cent per member annually . This resolution is offered by the ...
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... memorial that we hope to erect to Clara Barton . Clara Barton was a charter member of the Legion of Loyal Women and an active member to her death . We were the first auxiliary to the Red Cross , and we stood by Clara Barton till the day ...
... memorial that we hope to erect to Clara Barton . Clara Barton was a charter member of the Legion of Loyal Women and an active member to her death . We were the first auxiliary to the Red Cross , and we stood by Clara Barton till the day ...
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Page 98 - There is a rank due to the United States among nations, which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness. If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it ; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known that we are at all times ready for war.
Page 153 - Let me but do my work from day to day, In field or forest, at the desk or loom, In roaring market-place or tranquil room; Let me but find it in my heart to say, When vagrant wishes beckon me astray : "This is my work; my blessing, not my doom; Of all who live, I am the one by whom This work can best be done in the right way.
Page 99 - Any voter who shall, except as herein otherwise provided, allow his ballot to be seen by any person with an apparent intention of letting it be...
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Page 99 - All money received by any person, a resident of the state as a pension from the United States government, whether the same shall be in the actual possession of such pensioner, or deposited, loaned or invested by him...
Page 153 - I do not care where the work is, the man or woman who does work worth doing is the man or woman who lives, breathes, and sleeps that work; with whom it is ever present in his or her soul; whose ambition is to do it well and feel rewarded by the thought of having done it well.
Page 1876 - Republic for the year nineteen hundred and fifteen, not to exceed $1,700 in cost, with illustrations, one thousand copies of which shall be for the use of the House and five hundred for the use of the Senate.
Page 162 - ... States were founded, not to provide free homes, but to assert human rights. This flag meant a great enterprise of the human spirit. Nobody, no large bodies of men, in the time that flag was first set up believed with a very firm belief in the efficacy of democracy. Do you realize that only so long ago as the time of the American Revolution democracy was regarded as an experiment in the world and we were regarded as rash experimenters? But we not only believed in it ; we showed that our belief...
Page 153 - Judicial decisions have two uses : first, to absolutely determine the case decided ; and secondly, to indicate to the public how other similar cases will be decided when they arise. For the latter use, they are called "precedents
Page 43 - All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother — blessings on her memory!