Word: americans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...decisive blow against enemy capital. Its practical advantage is manifestly great. Many of the firms making material for war purposes are German-owned; it would be hard to believe that the owners have not often tried and have been able to slow up their production. With these firms in American hands they can be run to their highest efficiency and help considerably to swell the tide of supplies that must in the end overcome Prussian power. The opportunities for spies will be greatly curtailed; under German ownership many of these spies were doubtless protected, but American possession will help drive...
...legal. A treaty of 1799 with Prussia stated that if war were declared between the United States and Prussia, merchants of both countries should have nine months to settle their affairs and leave. Those nine months have now expired. No one, if he remembers the destruction of American property on the high seas, can say that we are grabbing what we can from a defence-less enemy. The argument that their industries should not be returned until this property is paid for is certainly convincing...
...American public has been called upon so often for war charities and has at all times made so adequate a response that the mere announcement of another occasion for giving may assume success. Yet it is an opportunity deserving the particular support of University students which the annual spring clothing collection of the Phillips Brooks House affords...
...Storey, who obtained both A.B. and A.M. degrees from the University, and was also a graduate of the Law School, was admitted to the Bar in 1869 and has since been president of the American, Massachusetts and Boston Bar Associations. He has twice been an Overseer of the University...
...spring clothing collection conducted by Phillips Brooks House will take place next week as part of a nation-wide movement under the auspices of the American Red Cross. Through this organization garments received from the University will be turned over to the Commission of Relief in Belgian for distribution in the occupied territory of that country and France...