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... prepared . fessor Harding has adopted a topical form for his study of the war , but he has so woven together the evidence , and accompanied it with such telling quota- tions that he has made a most interesting narrative . This outline ...
... prepared . fessor Harding has adopted a topical form for his study of the war , but he has so woven together the evidence , and accompanied it with such telling quota- tions that he has made a most interesting narrative . This outline ...
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... prepared by Professor Harding is designed as the basis for a connected study of the war and its immediate causes . The successive sections should be assigned for study and discussion . Mem- bers of the class or group should look up ...
... prepared by Professor Harding is designed as the basis for a connected study of the war and its immediate causes . The successive sections should be assigned for study and discussion . Mem- bers of the class or group should look up ...
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... prepare them- selves by the very principles and purposes of their polity and the approved practices of their Govern- ment ever since the days when they set up a new nation in the high and honorable hope that it might in all that it was ...
... prepare them- selves by the very principles and purposes of their polity and the approved practices of their Govern- ment ever since the days when they set up a new nation in the high and honorable hope that it might in all that it was ...
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... preparation . Difficult and deli- cate as these questions are , they must be faced with the utmost candor and decided ... prepared to do its utmost to confine the operations of war for the rest of its duration to the fighting forces of ...
... preparation . Difficult and deli- cate as these questions are , they must be faced with the utmost candor and decided ... prepared to do its utmost to confine the operations of war for the rest of its duration to the fighting forces of ...
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... preparation and in the equipment of our own military forces with the duty - for it will be a very practical duty - of supplying the nations already at war with Germany with the materials which they can obtain only from us or by our ...
... preparation and in the equipment of our own military forces with the duty - for it will be a very practical duty - of supplying the nations already at war with Germany with the materials which they can obtain only from us or by our ...
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Page 22 - An independent Polish state should be erected which should include the territories inhabited by indisputably Polish populations, which should be assured a free and secure access to the sea, and whose political and economic independence and territorial integrity should be guaranteed by international covenant.
Page 173 - An act to provide further for the national security and defense by encouraging the production, conserving the supply, and controlling the distribution of those ores, metals, and minerals which have formerly been largely imported, or of which there is or may be an inadequate supply.
Page 149 - President, is unsatisfactory to the person entitled to receive the same, such person shall be paid seventy-five per centum of the amount so determined by the President and shall be entitled to sue the United States to recover such further sum as, added to said seventy-five per centum, will make up such amount as will be just compensation therefor, in the manner provided for by section twentyfour, paragraph twenty, and section one hundred and forty-five of the Judicial Code.
Page 50 - One of the things that has served to convince us that the Prussian autocracy was not and could never be our friend is that from the very outset of the present war it has filled our unsuspecting communities and even our offices of government with spies and set criminal intrigues everywhere afoot against our national unity of counsel, our peace within and without, our industries and our commerce.
Page 52 - The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest, no dominion. We seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make. We are but one of the champions of the rights of mankind.
Page 144 - The officer may break open any outer or inner door or window of a house, or any part of a house, or anything therein, to execute the warrant, if, after notice of his authority and purpose, he is refused admittance.
Page 13 - I am not now thinking of the loss of property involved, immense and serious as that is, but only of the wanton and wholesale destruction of the lives of non-combatants, men, women, and children, engaged in pursuits which have always, even in the darkest periods of modern history been deemed innocent and legitimate.
Page 22 - The Turkish portions of the present Ottoman Empire should be assured a secure sovereignty, but the other nationalities which are now under Turkish rule should be assured an undoubted security of life and an absolutely unmolested opportunity of autonomous development...
Page 51 - I advise that the Congress declare the recent course of the Imperial German Government to be in fact nothing less than war against the government and people of the United States; that it formally accept the status of belligerent which has thus been thrust upon it; and that it take immediate steps not only to put the country in a more thorough state of defense but also to exert all its power and employ all its resources to bring the Government of the German Empire to terms and end the war.
Page 151 - Any and all notes, debentures, bonds or other such obligations issued by the corporation shall be exempt both as to principal and Interest from all taxation (except surtaxes, estate, inheritance, and gift taxes) now or hereafter imposed by the United States, by any territory, dependency or possession thereof, or by any state, county, municipality or local taxing authority.