Word: acted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...will in turn be removed after two weeks to make room for a third set of appointments, and again a fourth group will hold office from the 1st until the 15th of July. In this manner practically everyone in all the companies will be given an opportunity to act at least in the capacity of a corporal. Before the regiment sets out on its long hike the permanent officers and noncommissioned officers will be selected...
Walter Sherman Gifford '05 has been appointed director of the Council of National Defence, the body which was recently recreated by act of Congress to mobilize and unify the industries of the United States. The members of the Council are the Secretaries of War, Navy, Interior, Agriculture, Commerce, and Labor. Fifteen sections and boards of the Council report to the director and through him to the members of the Cabinet, and each member of the advisory council has industrial committees to assist...
These men will become members of the Medical Enlisted Reserve Corps, under the National Defence Act of June 3, 1916. The minimum salary for a driver in the Ambulance Corps...
...June 17, 1864, the Federal Congress passed an act designed to stop "speculation in the Government's money." The value of greenbacks had been very unstable, and that fact had been manifesting itself in a rising price of gold in terms of greenbacks in "futures" in the gold exchange in New York. Congress, therefore, by law closed the gold exchange, and forbade "futures" in gold and foreign exchange. Buying and selling went on--in small, demoralized markets. Gold was worth 198 in green-backs on the day the law passed. The next day it went to 208; the next...
...army of China, with its obsolete arms and want of training, proved to be inefficient and inferior to its opponents in her recent wars is a fact, but to attribute this without any ground to the reason that the Chinese are "cowardly" can not but be construed as an act of wanton insult of national character. If the Chinese are given the best of equipment and training, as the people are in this country, the question whether they are cowardly can then be decided on the battlefield in a future war. If China should have awakened fifty years earlier...