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... ROMANCE OF PEARL FISHING " ( Illustrated ) There is magic and romance in the pearl ; there is a human equation that is revealed in a visit to the pearl divers and the pearl growers in far - off tropical Edens , where the royal palm 26.
... ROMANCE OF PEARL FISHING " ( Illustrated ) There is magic and romance in the pearl ; there is a human equation that is revealed in a visit to the pearl divers and the pearl growers in far - off tropical Edens , where the royal palm 26.
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... humanity , but some realization of the economic interdependence of men upon one another , that mode of warfare was succeeded by what may be called the era of civilized warfare , in which year after year , and war after war , new ...
... humanity , but some realization of the economic interdependence of men upon one another , that mode of warfare was succeeded by what may be called the era of civilized warfare , in which year after year , and war after war , new ...
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... human race has suffered in that time . The Appeal of Belgium - " I need say nothing of Belgium . That is so intimately known to us that we , in our own bodies , it seems to me , have suffered with the Belgians . There was a poetic ...
... human race has suffered in that time . The Appeal of Belgium - " I need say nothing of Belgium . That is so intimately known to us that we , in our own bodies , it seems to me , have suffered with the Belgians . There was a poetic ...
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... humanity and mankind to the great territory which it had conquered in its original home here . I was in Europe just ... human race deferred centuries for the ad- vancement that it might otherwise quickly have attained , I wonder how the ...
... humanity and mankind to the great territory which it had conquered in its original home here . I was in Europe just ... human race deferred centuries for the ad- vancement that it might otherwise quickly have attained , I wonder how the ...
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... human life every day now aver- ages somewhere between ten thousand and fifteen thousand , and the expenditure of the accumulated wealth of the world - or the wealth to be accumulated of the world — the waste that is going on in this war ...
... human life every day now aver- ages somewhere between ten thousand and fifteen thousand , and the expenditure of the accumulated wealth of the world - or the wealth to be accumulated of the world — the waste that is going on in this war ...
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Page 62 - That the state of war between the United States and the Imperial German Government which has thus been thrust upon the United States is hereby formally declared, and that the President be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to employ the entire naval and military forces of the United States...
Page 199 - That this act is expressly declared to be emergency legislation enacted to meet conditions growing out of war; and nothing herein is to be construed as expressing or prejudicing the future policy of the Federal Government concerning the ownership, control, or regulation of carriers or the method or basis of the capitalization thereof.
Page 270 - Let us be perfectly frank with ourselves and admit that these questions cannot be satisfactorily answered now or at once. But the moral is not that there is little hope of an early answer that will suffice. It is only that we must be patient and helpful and mindful above all of the great hope and confidence that lie at the heart of what is taking place. Excesses accomplish nothing. Unhappy Russia has furnished abundant recent proof of that. Disorder immediately defeats itself. If excesses should...
Page 270 - Empires has come political change not merely, but revolution ; and revolution which seems as yet to assume no final and ordered form but to run from one fluid change to another, until thoughtful men are forced to ask themselves, With what governments, and of what sort, are we about to deal in the making of the covenants of peace? With what authority will they meet us, and with what assurance that their authority will abide and sustain securely the international arrangements into which we are about...
Page 62 - President is hereby authorized and directed to employ the entire naval and military forces of the United States and the resources of the Government to carry on war against the Government of Germany; and, to bring the conflict to a successful termination, all of the resources of the country are hereby pledged by the Congress of the United States.
Page 138 - Empire, until finally the French Revolution swallowed up the last remnant. Alsace and Lorraine then became French provinces. When, in the war of 1870, we demanded back the districts which had been criminally wrested from us, that was not a conquest of foreign territory, but, rightly and properly speaking, what today is called disannexation.
Page 197 - Commission shall make a general investigation of the compensation of persons in the railroad service, the relation of railroad wages to wages in other industries, the conditions respecting wages in different parts of the country, the special emergency respecting wages which exists at this time owing to war conditions and the high cost of living, as well as the relation between different classes of railroad labor.
Page 196 - All transportation systems covered by said proclamation and order shall be operated as a national system of transportation, the common and national needs being in all instances held paramount to any actual or supposed corporate advantage.
Page 138 - ... became French in 1648, more than two centuries before the war of 1870. It became French according to a treaty. The treaty was signed by the Austrian Emperor, because Alsace belonged to the Austrian Imperial Family. And it is not without interest to quote an article (article 75) of the treaty: The Emperor cedes to the King of France forever, in perpetuum, without any reserve, with full jurisdiction and sovereignty, all the Alsatian territory. The Austrian Emperor gives it to the King of France...
Page 52 - Mr. Kennan, we may die in exile, and our children may die in exile, and our children's children may die in exile, but something will come of it at last.