Word: americans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...desire of the committee in charge of the "All America" parade, which is to take place in Boston tomorrow afternoon, to have a contingent of men who have served in the American Ambulance Field Service march as a unit of the parade. All men who have at any time served with that organization and who are not enrolled in one of the other parading bodies are requested to notify Mr. Thompson, of Lee, Higginson Company, Boston, immediately, either by telephone or through R. McA. Lloyd '19, who may be found at the H. A. A. today between...
Theodore Roosevelt has sounded the keynote of what should be every American's attitude in the war, when he declared recently that patriotic words are only worth while when they have as their basis patriotic actions. Speech is cheap. An insincere man can often utter as noble words as one of undoubted sincerity. High-sounding verbosity will never defeat Germany, nor will it go far toward arousing others of our nation to action. A single heroic death in France, the simple report, "Killed in action," is far more effective than the words of all the statesmen of America...
...doing and whether you cannot be of more service. Get into the war and back your beliefs and high sentiments with real deeds. If you ought to be in the army, get into it. If you ought to be here, make every minute count. In any case, be an American twenty-four hours of every day and learn that slackers are bred of the stuff which is satisfied with "doing...
...hours after he was wounded in action with the American forces in France on March 13, Captain Archibald Roosevelt '17 lay in a muddy trench under fire, suffering great agony from a shrapnel wound in the knee and a broken arm, according to a letter received by Dr. Joshuah Hartwell. The letter contains the first definite news regarding the extent of Captain Roosevelt's wounds and the circumstances under which they were received...
...first time since the declaration of war a year ago a representative American electorate is given the opportunity to express its opinion on the issues and conduct of the struggle. In the three-cornered senatorial campaign which ends at the polls today the Wisconsin voters will choose between Len-root, a Republican who supports the war but who reserves judgment regarding its conduct, Davis, who is an out-and-out Administration Democrat, and Berger, a Socialist who runs on the astounding platform that "the American army should be immediately withdrawn from Europe to give complete security to the United States...