Word: done
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...work of the American Ambulance Field Service in Europe will be shown in moving pictures at the Union next Wednesday night. Dr. A. P. Andrew '95, head of the Service, will explain the pictures and describe the work that is being done abroad. The pictures will show the work of all the American sectors, and a review of the French troops by General Joffre will be portrayed...
...majority, is exposing itself to the ridicule of America by taking a political stand based on puerile, prejudice, mob imitation and unreasoning ignorance of economic history. All of which (is more hurtful to us in prestige and) also in the development of character here, than it can be done to the cause of President Wilson before the country...
What have we done in Mexico? Our initial purpose was to befriend a sister republic; we have ended by incurring a hatred which generations of painstaking diplomacy may not obliterate. Our refusal to recognize Huerta, our brazen attempt to regulate) Mexican politics, our bluster at Tampico and Vera Cruz and our subsequent undignified withdrawal, --these are acts which defy interpretation in terms of any national and con- sistent policy. We befriended Villa, we countenanced Carranza, and we failed utterly to protect American rights and American lives. After the massacres at Santa Ysabel and Columbus, we started out to "get Villa...
...field work in time of battle. The efficient relief corps of the organization are always ready to assist in preventing the suffering incident to sudden catastrophies. Prompt and practical relief has been rendered in more than 80 disasters during the last ten years, and much good work has been done in preventing disease and instituting educational movements. During its existence the American Red Cross has received and spent more than $10,000,000, in addition to distributing supplies valued...
...prophesying that this is going to happen. But it may happen. And we continue talking about pacifism, talking about politics, talking about national defence, always talking, always bluffing, playing up to the sluggishness, indifference or ignorance of the mass, or boosting short-cut enthusiasms. Nothing is done. Every minute calls for action. And the fact is that each year one War Department sinks deeper and deeper into a mire of incompetence and chaos...