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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...show more clearly the application these figures have to the draft quotas of the individual states, I will give the figures as they stand in Massachusetts case. The War Department credited Massachusetts with 233,506. more people in 1917 than the state contained. This meant that 9,340 men were taken out of Massachusetts above what her true quota was. On the other hand, though I wish to emphasize that I do not mean any reflection upon the patriotism of the Southern men, South Carolina gave 9959 men less than she should have given under the draft calls, and this...
...speeches and you will find him a shuttle-cock being bounced about from one group to another. Who will be advisor-in-chief? This one rule may justly be applied. In a government "with and by advice of the Senate" who will be prominent? The men who now stand in the positions of greatest authority in the Republican Party, namely: Senators Lodge, Borah, Johnson, and Penrose. Draw your own inferences if you dare. (3) A president who refuses his executive functions and is the mouth-piece of advisors (no matter how good the advice) is a man who invites that...
Although it is challenged as a menace to pedestrians and automobilists, it provides a safety zone on which pedestrians can stand in order to board surface cars. If it were removed and a safety zone marked out, the automobilist would still be forced to go around the area as they do now. It acts as "tin-policeman" of a rather unusually heavy avoirdupois. Its removal, then, would not eliminate an obstruction to traffic unless the surface cars were diverted to other streets outside the Square...
...your part and that of many others that in this strike wages play a minor part, that nationalization is the fundamental question, and that Great Britain a opposed to it. I grant that nationalization is probably the moving idea behind this strike, but insist that intelligent Britain does not stand wholly opposed to it in any form. The Sankey Report says, paragraph nine: "Even upon the evidence already given the present system of ownership and working in the coal industry stands condemned, and some other system must be substituted for it, either nationalization of a method of unification by national...
...Eastern States are watching Soldiers Field today. Whichever side wins, the game will stand in the annals of football as one long to be remembered...