City Club Bulletin, Volumes 12-131917 - New York (N.Y.) |
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... peace time 3,600 calories , or 3,600 units . It was perfectly well - known that the people never consumed this amount . They did not consume over 2,800 . This left a deficit of 800 that was wasted , and this waste occurs all along the ...
... peace time 3,600 calories , or 3,600 units . It was perfectly well - known that the people never consumed this amount . They did not consume over 2,800 . This left a deficit of 800 that was wasted , and this waste occurs all along the ...
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... Peace . ' It tells the whole story of war in Russia , the Napoleonic advance , the Napoleonic retreat , the withdrawal of the civilian population in advance of the army ; and Tolstoy's purpose was to paint it at its worst - not to be ...
... Peace . ' It tells the whole story of war in Russia , the Napoleonic advance , the Napoleonic retreat , the withdrawal of the civilian population in advance of the army ; and Tolstoy's purpose was to paint it at its worst - not to be ...
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... peace be his . The Boston City Club directs that these resolutions be spread upon its permanent records and that an engrossed copy be handed to Mrs. Lehy , with the profound sympathy of its entire membership . SAMUEL J. ELDER ...
... peace be his . The Boston City Club directs that these resolutions be spread upon its permanent records and that an engrossed copy be handed to Mrs. Lehy , with the profound sympathy of its entire membership . SAMUEL J. ELDER ...
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... peace will be written permanent peace - based upon those standards of justice , equity , and humanity , those rights of man which we in our own national experiment have demonstrated really to be the vital principles of human life ...
... peace will be written permanent peace - based upon those standards of justice , equity , and humanity , those rights of man which we in our own national experiment have demonstrated really to be the vital principles of human life ...
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... peace within the industrial world . Sir Stephenson Kent said that he and his associates were in the country at the request of the public authorities , who wished to have the conditions of labor in industrial centers studied by men of ...
... peace within the industrial world . Sir Stephenson Kent said that he and his associates were in the country at the request of the public authorities , who wished to have the conditions of labor in industrial centers studied by men of ...
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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.