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... recent years . He did not appointments to the highest bench were also agree with his colleagues in the decision that within a few days approved without a single overthrew the income tax some years ago , dissenting voice . When Congress ...
... recent years . He did not appointments to the highest bench were also agree with his colleagues in the decision that within a few days approved without a single overthrew the income tax some years ago , dissenting voice . When Congress ...
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... recent address Government to contribute one cent to the before the Economic Club in New York City . enterprise . Quite apart from the distinctive The speaker traced the development of the advantages of San Francisco as an exposition ...
... recent address Government to contribute one cent to the before the Economic Club in New York City . enterprise . Quite apart from the distinctive The speaker traced the development of the advantages of San Francisco as an exposition ...
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... recent visit to Panama leads to a reassuring statement as to the progress of the canal work , and an ex- plicit demand for authority to defend the canal with suitable fortifications and prepare for its commercial and naval utilization ...
... recent visit to Panama leads to a reassuring statement as to the progress of the canal work , and an ex- plicit demand for authority to defend the canal with suitable fortifications and prepare for its commercial and naval utilization ...
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... recent years by the people of the the revolution . In July , 1912 , there will be Latin - American countries . The decision of another popular election for President . the Arbitration Court at The Hague in the famous Orinoco case ...
... recent years by the people of the the revolution . In July , 1912 , there will be Latin - American countries . The decision of another popular election for President . the Arbitration Court at The Hague in the famous Orinoco case ...
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... recent tour in the United States ) From the Evening News ( London ) United States is clear . Duty to ourselves and to our neighbors both imperatively de- mand that this country shall not foster or tolerate hostile movements within its ...
... recent tour in the United States ) From the Evening News ( London ) United States is clear . Duty to ourselves and to our neighbors both imperatively de- mand that this country shall not foster or tolerate hostile movements within its ...
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Page 425 - brief candle" to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
Page 307 - Well, yes ! If you saw us out driving Each day in the Park, four-in-hand ; If you saw poor dear mamma contriving To look supernaturally grand ; If you saw papa's picture, as taken By Brady, and tinted at that, — You'd never suspect he sold bacon And flour at Poverty Flat. And yet just this moment, when sitting In the glare of the grand chandelier, In the bustle and glitter befitting The " finest soiree of the year," In the mists of a gaze de Chambery And the hum of the smallest of talk, Somehow,...
Page 128 - ... whose present-day business burdens are all that he can carry. Now what are we doing to secure that efficiency? Much mentally, some of us much physically, but what is the trouble? We are not really efficient more than half the time. Half the time blue and worried — all the time nervous — some of the time really incapacitated by illness. There is a reason for this — a practical reason, one that has been known to physicians for quite a period and will be known to the entire World ere long....
Page 425 - I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no "brief candle
Page 539 - If now we can negotiate and put through a positive agreement with some great nation to abide the adjudication of an international arbitral court in every issue which cannot be settled by negotiation, no matter what it involves, whether honor, territory, or money...
Page 415 - In proceeding this day to the signature of the Treaty of Commerce and Navigation between Japan and the United States the undersigned, Japanese Ambassador In Washington, duly authorized by his government, has the honor to declare that the Imperial Japanese Government are fully prepared to maintain with equal effectiveness the limitation and control which they have for the last three years exercised In regulation of the emigration of laborers to the United States.
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Page 190 - While we were longing for the balloons that poverty denied us, a genius arose for the occasion and suggested that we send out and gather silk dresses in the Confederacy and make a balloon. " It was done, and soon we had a great patchwork ship of many and varied hues which was ready for use in the Seven Days