Eight Years with Wilson's Cabinet, 1913 to 1920: With a Personal Estimate of the President, Volumen1Doubleday, Page, 1926 - 369 páginas Memoirs of David F. Houston's experiences as a member of Woodrow Wilson's cabinet. |
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... supply the defect of public retribution , it will greatly contract the sphere within which the selection of character for office is to be made , and will proportionally diminish the probability of a choice of men able as well as upright ...
... supply the defect of public retribution , it will greatly contract the sphere within which the selection of character for office is to be made , and will proportionally diminish the probability of a choice of men able as well as upright ...
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... supply our own people and the people of the world as their need arises from the abundant plenty of our fields and our marts of trade ; to enrich the commerce of our own states and of the world with the products of our mines , our farms ...
... supply our own people and the people of the world as their need arises from the abundant plenty of our fields and our marts of trade ; to enrich the commerce of our own states and of the world with the products of our mines , our farms ...
Página 127
... supply of equipment , munitions , and big and little guns . At the Cabinet meeting on Tuesday , January 26th , the Immigration Bill again claimed attention . It had been mentioned at the preceding meeting , and Secretary Wilson had ...
... supply of equipment , munitions , and big and little guns . At the Cabinet meeting on Tuesday , January 26th , the Immigration Bill again claimed attention . It had been mentioned at the preceding meeting , and Secretary Wilson had ...
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... supplies of any sort reach Germany , if I could prevent it . It is silly for the Germans to cry that England is starving her women and children . It is impossible in modern war to separate , in the matter of food and other supplies ...
... supplies of any sort reach Germany , if I could prevent it . It is silly for the Germans to cry that England is starving her women and children . It is impossible in modern war to separate , in the matter of food and other supplies ...
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... supply ships . A careful investigation by United States naval and military officers conclusively established the fact that the Sussex was torpedoed without warning or summons to surrender , and that the torpedo was of German manufac ...
... supply ships . A careful investigation by United States naval and military officers conclusively established the fact that the Sussex was torpedoed without warning or summons to surrender , and that the torpedo was of German manufac ...
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Página 255 - I say sustained so far as may be equitable by taxation because it seems to me that it would be most unwise to base the credits which will now be necessary entirely on money borrowed. It is our duty, I most respectfully urge, to protect our people so far as we may against the very serious hardships and evils which would be likely to arise out of the inflation which would be produced by vast loans.
Página 156 - In accordance with the general principles of visit and search and destruction of merchant vessels recognized by international law, such vessels, both within and without the area declared as naval war zone, shall not be sunk without warning and without saving human lives, unless these ships attempt to escape or offer resistance.
Página 31 - This is not a day of triumph; it is a day of dedication. Here muster, not the forces of party, but the forces of humanity. Men's hearts wait upon us; men's lives hang in the balance; men's hopes call upon us to say what we will do.
Página 366 - select classes of mankind are no longer the governors of mankind. The fortunes of mankind are now in the hands of the plain people of the whole world.
Página 135 - ... to ascertain whether a suspected merchantman is in fact of belligerent nationality or is in fact carrying contraband of war under a neutral flag.
Página 30 - The feelings with which we face this new age of right and opportunity sweep across our heartstrings like some air out of God's own presence, where justice and mercy are reconciled and the judge and the brother are one.
Página 55 - We must abolish everything that bears even the semblance of privilege or of any kind of artificial advantage, and put our business men and producers under the stimulation of a constant necessity to be efficient, economical, and enterprising, masters of competitive supremacy, better workers and merchants than any in the world.
Página 254 - There is one choice we cannot make, we are incapable of making — we will not choose the path of submission and suffer the most sacred rights of our nation and our people to be ignored or violated.
Página 303 - Force. Force to the utmost. Force without stint or limit, the righteous and triumphant Force which shall make Right the law of the world, and cast every selfish dominion down in the dust.
Página 127 - We must depend in every time of national peril, in the future as in the past, not upon a standing army, nor yet upon a reserve army, but upon a citizenry trained and accustomed to arms.