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...Please do your utmost to understand this. There are just as many members of the American Legion who are firmly against any pension, compensation or any kind of payment for doing what they, as Americans, considered their duty-excepting the care of the men who were disabled in service, or as a direct result of that same service, and unable to care for themselves as there are those in favor of any method of, or excuse for robbing the Treasury. Please make an honest effort, Mr. Greene, to know what you are talking about before you try to condemn...
...witness in respect to any evidence to be given in this House or in committee thereof, or directly or indirectly, has endeavored to defeat or hinder any person from giving evidence, the same is declared to be a High Crime and Misdemeanor, and the House will proceed with the utmost severity against such offender...
...dawn good luck helped him inside the Federal position. Next day Pacifist Bale saw more bloodshed than most soldiers ever see, but he still had enough humor to laugh at the sign in Ever Green Cemetery: "All persons found using firearms in these grounds will be prosecuted with the utmost vigor of the law." He finally discovered his man's corps in the centre of the line, and was just being sent to the rear as a civilian when a Confederate bombardment blocked the way. When Pickett's charge came whooping over the wheatfields...
...volume, and 32% of the 1929 value. This has meant idle hands, still machines, ships tied to their docks, despairing farm household and hungry industrial families. . . . You and I know that the world does not stand still; that trade movements and relations once interrupted can with the utmost difficulty be restored; that even in tranquil and prosperous times there is a constant shifting of trade channels. . . . Every nation must at all times be in a position quickly to adjust its taxes and tariffs to meet sudden changes and avoid severe fluctuations in both its exports and its imports...
...powers and especially of Italy, which is even now making friendly overtures to the Prince. A Fascist Regency headed by Starhemberg satisfies all these conditions. It looks as though the Prince's hour has arrived; and everything seems to indicate that he will take advantage of it to the utmost. NEMO...