Word: congress
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...While the Selective Conscription Law about to be passed by Congress is undoubtedly the best plan to meet the immediate need of the nation, it does not provide permanently for universal military training...
...draft bill takes some shape of life from the primieval slime out of which Congress created it, we are able to see a little more clearly what manner of men will form our new armies. It has been estimated that ten million men will be of the age subject for conscription. That is almost as large a total as Russia might offer. It is larger by two-thirds than the whole forces the German Empire has put in the field. Yet her men have been able to hold half the world at bay. The power in numbers of our nation...
This Ambulance Section will, in accordance with a proclamation of the President and by an act of Congress in reference to the Red Cross, go into federal service as soon as the enrolments are completed. The Company is already half full and the enrolments will be completed within a few days...
...also reported that the Honorable James Curley, mayor of all Boston, has protested to Secretary of War Baker against the injustice being shown to many Bostonians in choosing Harvard men in preference to Bostonians, although the Harvard men might not reside here. We presume that Congress did not intend to divide appointments like it divides postoffice appropriations. The mayor's protest smells of pork. Did he make it for love of country, that better officers might lead our armies? Did he make it from some sudden, unaccountable, and overweening sense of justice...
...Cross Ambulance Company is now being formed under the auspices of the Medical School. In accordance with a proclamation of the President of the United States and by an act of Congress in reference to the Red Cross, this company will go into the federal service as soon as the enrolments are complete, and the men will receive the same pay as those of similar rank in the United States Army...