The World's Work, Volume 31Doubleday, Page & Company, 1916 A history of our time. |
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... Secretary Lansing are to be congratulated and Ambassador Bernstorff . Germany now admits that American ships have a right to sail through the war zone without danger of molestation , that American ships carrying conditional con- traband ...
... Secretary Lansing are to be congratulated and Ambassador Bernstorff . Germany now admits that American ships have a right to sail through the war zone without danger of molestation , that American ships carrying conditional con- traband ...
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... Secretary . Admiral Blue , who heads the Bureau of Navigation , has a good deal more under his charge than would appear from his title . For example , he looks after the upkeep and operation of the Naval Academy at An- napolis and the ...
... Secretary . Admiral Blue , who heads the Bureau of Navigation , has a good deal more under his charge than would appear from his title . For example , he looks after the upkeep and operation of the Naval Academy at An- napolis and the ...
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... Secretary for the efficiency of the Navy as a whole . Secretary Daniels has interpreted the act of Congress creating the Board of Operations very liberally . Instead of plac- ing restrictions upon its chief , which he might very well ...
... Secretary for the efficiency of the Navy as a whole . Secretary Daniels has interpreted the act of Congress creating the Board of Operations very liberally . Instead of plac- ing restrictions upon its chief , which he might very well ...
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... Secretary once a week and is intended thus to bring together regularly , on an equal and informal footing , the Chief of Oper- ations , representing the General Board , the Assistant Secretary , the seven bureau chiefs , the commanding ...
... Secretary once a week and is intended thus to bring together regularly , on an equal and informal footing , the Chief of Oper- ations , representing the General Board , the Assistant Secretary , the seven bureau chiefs , the commanding ...
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... Secretary Garrison asked Con- gress for 7,500 additional men . Mr. Hay and his committee refused to grant the in- " There is left in the continental United States , " he said , " 42,000 men , which will be sufficient for all necessary ...
... Secretary Garrison asked Con- gress for 7,500 additional men . Mr. Hay and his committee refused to grant the in- " There is left in the continental United States , " he said , " 42,000 men , which will be sufficient for all necessary ...
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Page 376 - It shall not be lawful for the House of Commons to adopt or pass any vote, resolution, address or Bill for the appropriation of any part of the public revenue or of any tax or impost to any purpose that has not been first recommended to that House by message of the governor general in the session in which such vote, resolution, address or Bill is proposed.
Page 606 - Service is to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners of the United States by so conserving and distributing their industrial activities as to improve their working conditions and advance their opportunities for profitable employment...
Page 454 - In the end it will either become remiss in its executive duties or will, in the zeal of these, become unfit for the dispassionate performance of its judicial functions. Whatever may have been true in the past, the time has come when the Commission should be relieved of all its duties except the hearing and deciding of complaints.
Page 129 - America has not opened its doors in vain to men and women out of other nations. The vast majority of those who have come to take advantage of her hospitality have united their spirits with hers as well as their fortunes. These men who speak alien sympathies are not their spokesmen but are the spokesmen of small groups whom it is high time that the nation should call to a reckoning. The chief thing necessary in America in order that she should let all the world know that she is prepared to maintain...
Page 593 - He may be both the leader of his party and the leader of the nation, or he may be one or the other. If he lead the nation, his party can hardly resist him. His office is anything he has the sagacity and force to make it.
Page 593 - His is the only national voice in affairs. Let him once win the admiration and confidence of the country, and no other single force can withstand him, no combination of forces will easily overpower him.
Page 367 - There are no misfit children. There are misfit schools, misfit texts and studies, misfit dogmas and traditions of pedants and pedantry. There are misfit homes, misfit occupations and diversions. In fact, there are all kinds and conditions of misfit clothing for children, but — in the nature of things there can be no misfit children.
Page 126 - Our ambition, also, all the world has knowledge of. It is not only to be free and prosperous ourselves, but also to be the friend and thoughtful partisan of those who are free or who desire freedom the world over. If we have had aggressive purposes and covetous ambitions, they were the fruit of our thoughtless youth as a nation and we have put them aside. We shall, I confidently believe, never again take another foot of territory by conquest. We shall never in any circumstances seek to make an independent...
Page 32 - Convinced as I am, that a government is the murderer of its , citizens, which sends them to the field uninformed and untaught, where they are to meet men of the same age and strength, mechanized by education and discipline for battle...
Page 202 - Department, and submitted to Congress by the President; or for the purpose of paying its own expenses and contingencies; or for the payment of claims against the Confederate States, the justice of which shall have been judicially declared by a tribunal for the investigation...