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... ment , kindliness and an unfailing interest in men of every sort . Michigan itself had its share of men with the bark on in those formative days . Henry Ford was known to the editor as a struggling young mechanic . Charles L. Freer was ...
... ment , kindliness and an unfailing interest in men of every sort . Michigan itself had its share of men with the bark on in those formative days . Henry Ford was known to the editor as a struggling young mechanic . Charles L. Freer was ...
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... ment . Mr. Cobb was a director and the first vice president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors . Gov. Nathan Miller appointed him a member of the Board of Managers of the Manhattan State Hospital ; he was chairman of the ...
... ment . Mr. Cobb was a director and the first vice president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors . Gov. Nathan Miller appointed him a member of the Board of Managers of the Manhattan State Hospital ; he was chairman of the ...
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... ment of Justice , Attorney - General Bonaparte , under or- ders from President Roosevelt , began criminal proceed- ings Feb. 17 , 1909 , in the courts of the District of Co- lumbia against The World , the Indianapolis News and certain ...
... ment of Justice , Attorney - General Bonaparte , under or- ders from President Roosevelt , began criminal proceed- ings Feb. 17 , 1909 , in the courts of the District of Co- lumbia against The World , the Indianapolis News and certain ...
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... ment paid $ 40,000,000 for the property . But who got the money ? President Roosevelt's reply to this most proper ques- tion is for the most part a string of abusive and defama- tory epithets . But he also makes the following state ...
... ment paid $ 40,000,000 for the property . But who got the money ? President Roosevelt's reply to this most proper ques- tion is for the most part a string of abusive and defama- tory epithets . But he also makes the following state ...
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... ment makes it impossible to accept either his judgments or his conclusions . In his message he does not state cor- rectly even so simple a matter as the pretended causes of his grievance . He says , for example , that The World asserted ...
... ment makes it impossible to accept either his judgments or his conclusions . In his message he does not state cor- rectly even so simple a matter as the pretended causes of his grievance . He says , for example , that The World asserted ...
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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.