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“ We have got to put across this Liberty Loan , and it needs but a very small margin for us to put up at any bank to carry large amounts of those bonds , and we should certainly be unable to look our men in the face when they come back ...
“ We have got to put across this Liberty Loan , and it needs but a very small margin for us to put up at any bank to carry large amounts of those bonds , and we should certainly be unable to look our men in the face when they come back ...
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“ Commissioner Skeffington , I think , unnecessarily commiserated with himself at not being able to get into this game in a uniform , because of age . He does not look it ( laughter ) , and he is doing splendid work where he is .
“ Commissioner Skeffington , I think , unnecessarily commiserated with himself at not being able to get into this game in a uniform , because of age . He does not look it ( laughter ) , and he is doing splendid work where he is .
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Every American must look this situation squarely in the face . We are , for example , extremely short of wool . We are extremely short of many commodities . But we are not nearly as short of wool on our backs as the French are short of ...
Every American must look this situation squarely in the face . We are , for example , extremely short of wool . We are extremely short of many commodities . But we are not nearly as short of wool on our backs as the French are short of ...
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Yet when you compare that tragic experience with what the world has seen in the three years which we now look back upon , it seems like the mimicry of children -- it seems like sham battles as compared with the awful devastation which ...
Yet when you compare that tragic experience with what the world has seen in the three years which we now look back upon , it seems like the mimicry of children -- it seems like sham battles as compared with the awful devastation which ...
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We look upon it as our duty there to see that the man power in our country is used on essentially war purposes . In the very early days of the war it was laid down that no building of a value of more than £ 500 might be erected except ...
We look upon it as our duty there to see that the man power in our country is used on essentially war purposes . In the very early days of the war it was laid down that no building of a value of more than £ 500 might be erected except ...
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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.