Word: americans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...till tomorrow what seems obnoxious today. But war will not be put off, not by the desires of one nation, nor the delay of its young men. Preparation against calamity takes long. Yet calamity itself comes suddenly, overnight. We are so near war now that the sinking of one American ship, the wanton destruction of American lives, would draw us inevitably into the maelstrom...
...noteworthy thing, as recorded in the press dispatches yesterday, that the interned German liners displayed American flags in commemoration of the birthday of Lincoln. It would be the depth of prejudice to hint that the display of those flags betokened anything but the sincere admiration of the commanders of the liners. Those men, alien and powerless in this country while a great war threatens the land of their birth, may have come in thirty months to feel some measure of regard for that great American who typifies the ideals and the democratic power of his people...
...these hours of suspense a great, tragic conflict shakes the hearts of millions of American citizens of German birth or descent. For nearly three years our brothers on the other side of the Atlantic have held at bay a world of enemies. The terrible hardships of trench warfare, aided by enemy bullets and shrapnel, thinned their ranks--spread over a front of thousands of miles. England's starvation blockade, which the American Government itself admitted to be "illegal and indefensible," finds its daily victims among the children and the aged behind the fronts. The few letters that reach...
...Bryan's views or the President's views shall prevail. Imagine your country torn into two camps. Imagine smooth tongues and vitriolic pens hired perhaps by foreign gold, exasperating the community with cries of "Peace! Peace! Vote for Peace!" Imagine an alliance between the spineless pacifist and the American, if there be such, of foreign blood whose allegiance lies with the country of his birth, not with the country of his adoption. Imagine insidious writings and insidious speeches and insidious advertisements describing timidity as "good will towards men" and extolling cowardice by christening it "humanity." Let every Harvard...
...Hart, Schaffner and Marx Prize of $200 has been awarded to Herbert Feis '16, of New York, N. Y., for a thesis entitled "Economics of the Minimum Wage, with Reference to American Wage Conditions...