Theodore Roosevelt, Twenty-sixth President of the United States: A Typical American |
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CHAPTER X. - PURIFYING CITY POLITICS 183 Roosevelt Appointed President
of Police Board of the City of New York . " I Will Enforce the Law . ” Merit System
Governs in Police Force . Sunday Closing Law Made Operative . Attempted ...
CHAPTER X. - PURIFYING CITY POLITICS 183 Roosevelt Appointed President
of Police Board of the City of New York . " I Will Enforce the Law . ” Merit System
Governs in Police Force . Sunday Closing Law Made Operative . Attempted ...
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Feeling that he had accomplished the purpose for which he accepted duty in the
Civil Service, he, after more than six years of labor, resigned to take upon himself
the burden of duty as Police Commissioner in the city of New York. When in the ...
Feeling that he had accomplished the purpose for which he accepted duty in the
Civil Service, he, after more than six years of labor, resigned to take upon himself
the burden of duty as Police Commissioner in the city of New York. When in the ...
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When in the legislative assembly he had been chairman of a committee which
investigated the New York Police Department. His report showed that he had
very decided views upon this subject, and his study of the subject while in the ...
When in the legislative assembly he had been chairman of a committee which
investigated the New York Police Department. His report showed that he had
very decided views upon this subject, and his study of the subject while in the ...
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... was for six years Civil Service Commissioner under President Harrison and
President of the Police Board of New York city from 1895 to 1897. Upon the
election of McKinley he was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy and
carried his ...
... was for six years Civil Service Commissioner under President Harrison and
President of the Police Board of New York city from 1895 to 1897. Upon the
election of McKinley he was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy and
carried his ...
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He began that inquiry into the abuse of police powers which has continued until
better conditions prevail, and which will result in purity of administration, unless
the people of the greatest city in the country shall be timid enough or supine ...
He began that inquiry into the abuse of police powers which has continued until
better conditions prevail, and which will result in purity of administration, unless
the people of the greatest city in the country shall be timid enough or supine ...
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Page 410 - The period of exclusiveness is past. The expansion of our trade and commerce is the pressing problem. Commercial wars are unprofitable. A policy of good will and friendly trade relations will prevent reprisals. Reciprocity treaties are in harmony with the spirit of the times ; measures of retaliation are not. " If, perchance, some of our tariffs are no longer needed, for revenue, or to encourage and protect our industries at home, why should they not be employed to extend and promote our markets...
Page 409 - Only a broad and enlightened policy will keep what we have. No other policy will get more.
Page 409 - A system which provides a mutual exchange of commodities is manifestly essential to the continued and healthful growth of our export trade. We must not repose in fancied security that we can forever sell everything and buy little or nothing.
Page 317 - Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Page 148 - The timid man, the lazy man the man who distrusts his country, the overcivilized man, who has lost the great fighting, masterful virtues, the ignorant man, and the man of dull mind, whose soul is incapable of feeling the mighty lift that thrills "stern men with empires in their brains...
Page 409 - Reciprocity is the natural outgrowth of our wonderful industrial development under the domestic policy now firmly established. What we produce beyond our domestic consumption must have a vent abroad. The excess must be relieved through a foreign outlet and we should sell everywhere we can and buy wherever the buying will enlarge our sales and productions, and thereby make a greater demand for home labor, NEED OF EXPANSION. "The period of exclusiveness is past.
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Page 378 - I shall take the oath at once in accordance with your request, and in this hour of deep and terrible national bereavement I wish to state that it shall be my aim to continue absolutely unbroken the policy of President McKinley for the peace and prosperity and honor of our beloved country.
Page 316 - We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious effort; the man who never wrongs his neighbor, who is prompt to help a friend, but who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life.
Page 148 - Above all, let us shrink from no strife, moral or physical, within or without the nation, provided we are certain that the strife is justified, for it is only through strife, through hard and dangerous endeavor, that we shall ultimately win the goal of true national greatness.
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| Title | Theodore Roosevelt, Twenty-sixth President of the United States: A Typical American |
| Authors | Charles Eugene Banks, Le Roy Armstrong |
| Contributor | Joseph Wheeler |
| Publisher | E.R. Du Mont, 1901 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 10 Oct 2007 |
| Length | 413 pages |
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