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... courts of the District of Co- lumbia against The World , the Indianapolis News and certain editors as individuals . The suits were based upon the circulation of the two newspapers in the District of Columbia and charged libel of ...
... courts of the District of Co- lumbia against The World , the Indianapolis News and certain editors as individuals . The suits were based upon the circulation of the two newspapers in the District of Columbia and charged libel of ...
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... courts , slanders private citizens , and who has shown himself the most reckless , unscrupulous demagogue whom the Ameri- can people ever trusted with great power and authority . We say this not in anger but in sincere sorrow . The ...
... courts , slanders private citizens , and who has shown himself the most reckless , unscrupulous demagogue whom the Ameri- can people ever trusted with great power and authority . We say this not in anger but in sincere sorrow . The ...
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... courts . An assault upon the freedom of the press was logically the next step in the gratification of his revenge upon everybody who had dared to inter- fere with his policies , projects or purposes . And in carry- ing out his scheme to ...
... courts . An assault upon the freedom of the press was logically the next step in the gratification of his revenge upon everybody who had dared to inter- fere with his policies , projects or purposes . And in carry- ing out his scheme to ...
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... courts of the District of Columbia , where the English common law of 1662 is still in force , and before the Federal courts of the Southern District of New York , the claim being made that the act of 1825 relative to the malicious ...
... courts of the District of Columbia , where the English common law of 1662 is still in force , and before the Federal courts of the Southern District of New York , the claim being made that the act of 1825 relative to the malicious ...
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... courts of this country . No Federal court has cognizance of such a case as 18 COBB OF " THE WORLD "
... courts of this country . No Federal court has cognizance of such a case as 18 COBB OF " THE WORLD "
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Page 223 - To such a task we can dedicate our lives and our fortunes, everything that we are and everything that we have, with the pride of those who know that the day has come when America is privileged to spend her blood and her might for the principles that gave her birth and happiness and the peace which she has treasured.
Page 225 - I am proposing, as it were, that the nations should with one accord adopt the doctrine of President Monroe as the doctrine of the world...
Page 82 - The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the crown. It may be frail — its roof may shake — the wind may blow through it — the storm may enter — the rain may enter — but the King of England cannot enter !— all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement...
Page 261 - The present war must first be ended; but we owe it to candor and to a just regard for the opinion of mankind to say that, so far as our participation in guarantees of future peace is concerned, it makes a great deal of difference in what way and upon what terms it is ended.
Page 27 - Britain hereby declare that neither the one nor the other will ever obtain or maintain for itself any exclusive control over the said ship canal; agreeing that neither will ever erect or maintain any fortifications commanding the same or in the vicinity thereof, or occupy, or fortify, or colonize, or assume, or exercise any dominion over Nicaragua, Costa Rica, the Mosquito coast,- or any part of Central America...
Page 28 - The governments of the United States and Great Britain, having not only desired, in entering into this convention, to accomplish a particular object, but also to establish a general principle, they hereby agree to extend their protection, by treaty stipulations, to any other practicable communications, whether by canal or railway, across the isthmus which connects North and South America...
Page 223 - But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts, for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free.
Page 351 - For why declare that things shall not be done which there is no power to do ? Why, for instance, should it be said that the liberty of the press shall not be restrained when no power is given by which restrictions may be imposed...
Page 29 - The canal shall be free and open to the vessels of commerce and of war of all nations observing these Rules, on terms of entire equality...
Page 269 - The President said a declaration of war would mean that Germany would be beaten and so badly beaten that there would be a dictated peace, a victorious peace. "It means," he said, "an attempt to reconstruct a peace-time civilization with war standards, and at the end of the war there will be no bystanders with sufficient power to influence the terms. There won't be any peace standards left to work with. There will be only war standards.