Recent History of the United StatesHoughton Mifflin, 1911 - 603 pages |
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... immediately involved , but Gowen announced in March that all his engineers must choose between the railroad and the Brotherhood . In re- sponse to this the engineers took their locomotives into the roundhouses at midnight , April 14 ...
... immediately involved , but Gowen announced in March that all his engineers must choose between the railroad and the Brotherhood . In re- sponse to this the engineers took their locomotives into the roundhouses at midnight , April 14 ...
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... immediately for the workers but publicity and a keener feeling for the identity of their interests . Their leaders moved on along the course of superior organization , and a new order , the Knights of Labor , which had existed in ...
... immediately for the workers but publicity and a keener feeling for the identity of their interests . Their leaders moved on along the course of superior organization , and a new order , the Knights of Labor , which had existed in ...
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... immediately the holder at the University of Pennsylvania of one of the earliest chairs in American history to be created , and started in the United States a school of historians who saw the realities of history in the whole life of the ...
... immediately the holder at the University of Pennsylvania of one of the earliest chairs in American history to be created , and started in the United States a school of historians who saw the realities of history in the whole life of the ...
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... immediately they described him " as a notorious libertine and profligate . " Democratic journals rejoined with at- tacks upon the correctness of Blaine's marriage , but were silenced by Blaine's statement of facts and Cleveland's ...
... immediately they described him " as a notorious libertine and profligate . " Democratic journals rejoined with at- tacks upon the correctness of Blaine's marriage , but were silenced by Blaine's statement of facts and Cleveland's ...
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... immediately trans- ferred to a single holder , who thus became the owner of a greater acreage than the law permitted . It was common gossip on the plains that new employees on the ranches were induced to file homestead or preëmption ...
... immediately trans- ferred to a single holder , who thus became the owner of a greater acreage than the law permitted . It was common gossip on the plains that new employees on the ranches were induced to file homestead or preëmption ...
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Page 523 - A general association of nations must be formed under specific covenants for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike.
Page 553 - By it they understand that compensation will be made by Germany for all damage done to the civilian population of the Allies and their property by the aggression of Germany by land, by sea, and from the air.
Page 476 - ... for the ultimate peace of the world and for the liberation of its peoples, the German peoples included: for the rights of nations great and small and the privilege of men everywhere to choose their way of life and of obedience. The world must be made safe for democracy.
Page 221 - Having behind us the producing masses of this nation and the world, supported by the commercial interests, and the toilers everywhere, we will answer their demand for a gold standard by saying to them: You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
Page 430 - ... be referred for investigation and report to a permanent International Commission, to be constituted in the manner prescribed in the next succeeding article; and they agree not to declare war or begin hostilities during such investigation and before the report is submitted.
Page 526 - Germany has once more said that force, and force alone, shall decide whether justice and peace shall reign in the affairs of men, whether 'Right as America conceives it or Dominion as she conceives it shall determine the destinies of mankind. There is, therefore, but one response possible from us: 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.
Page 416 - An act to prevent interstate commerce in the products of child labor, and for other purposes, approved September 1, 1916," and any amendments thereto hereafter made.
Page 175 - Alliance, or a better system ; also by payments in discharge of its obligations for public improvements. 1. We demand free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold at the present legal ratio of 16 to 1.
Page 441 - To declare or exercise a right to attack and destroy any vessel entering a prescribed area of the high seas without first certainly determining its belligerent nationality and the contraband character of its cargo would be an act so unprecedented in naval warfare that this Government is reluctant to believe that the Imperial Government of Germany in this case contemplates it as possible.
Page 468 - The leaders of the several belligerents have, as has been said, stated those objects in general terms. But, stated in general terms, they seem the same on both sides. Never yet have the authoritative spokesmen of either side avowed the precise objects which would, if attained, satisfy them and their people that the war had been fought out.