The Abridgment 1915: Containing the Annual Message of the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress, 64th Congress, 1st Session, with Reports of Departments and Selections from Accompanying PapersU.S. Government Printing Office, 1916 - 1902 pages |
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... practice of the arts of peace . Great democracies are not belligerent . They do not seek or desire war . Their thought is of individual liberty and of the free labour that supports life and the uncensored thought that quickens it ...
... practice of the arts of peace . Great democracies are not belligerent . They do not seek or desire war . Their thought is of individual liberty and of the free labour that supports life and the uncensored thought that quickens it ...
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... practice disloyalty . No laws , I suppose , can reach corruptions of the mind and heart ; but I should not speak of others without also speaking of these and expressing the even deeper humiliation and scorn which every self - possessed ...
... practice disloyalty . No laws , I suppose , can reach corruptions of the mind and heart ; but I should not speak of others without also speaking of these and expressing the even deeper humiliation and scorn which every self - possessed ...
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... practice , and with the hope that a satisfactory clearing and collection system would by this time have been evolved . I feel convinced , however , that I should not longer delay giving these banks the opportunity of performing these ...
... practice , and with the hope that a satisfactory clearing and collection system would by this time have been evolved . I feel convinced , however , that I should not longer delay giving these banks the opportunity of performing these ...
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... practice of authorizing the acquisition of sites in advance of legislation author- izing the construction of buildings is abandoned and if both site and building are authorized at the same time under a single limit of cost- May I ...
... practice of authorizing the acquisition of sites in advance of legislation author- izing the construction of buildings is abandoned and if both site and building are authorized at the same time under a single limit of cost- May I ...
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... practice of turning over the larger Federal buildings to outside architects be abandoned and that all such work be handled entirely in the Office of the Supervising Architect . The designing of Federal buildings and post offices ...
... practice of turning over the larger Federal buildings to outside architects be abandoned and that all such work be handled entirely in the Office of the Supervising Architect . The designing of Federal buildings and post offices ...
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Page 701 - An Act making appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918, and for other purposes...
Page 676 - Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises...
Page 118 - Corporations organized for the exclusive purpose of holding title to property, collecting income therefrom, and turning over the entire amount thereof, less expenses, to an organization which itself is exempt from the tax imposed by this title...
Page 171 - ... and the said vessel may be holden for the payment of such penalty, and may be seized and proceeded against summarily by libel for the recovery of the same in any United States district court for the district within which such vessel may be, and in the name of the officer designated by the Secretary of War.
Page 611 - Congress gave to the court jurisdiction over " claims to indemnity upon the French Government arising out of illegal captures, detentions, seizures, condemnations, and confiscations prior to the ratification of the convention between the United States and the French Republic concluded on the 3oth day of September, 1800.
Page 675 - Any person violating any provision of this section may be tried and punished either in the district in which the unlawful matter or publication was mailed, or to which it was carried by mail for delivery according to the direction thereon, or in which it was caused to be delivered by mail to the person to whom it was addressed.
Page 612 - An act to provide for the bringing of suits against the government of the United States.
Page 118 - ... rentals or other payments required to be made as a condition to the continued use or possession of property to which the corporation has not taken or is not taking title, or in which it has no equity...
Page 263 - That for the purpose of securing a list of persons specially qualified to hold commissions in any volunteer force which may hereafter be called for and organized under the authority of Congress, other than a force composed of organized militia...
Page 607 - ... d A person shall not be prosecuted for any offense arising under this act unless the indictment is found or the information is filed in court within one year after the commission of the offense.