Word: evens
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...water dash. Both of them are Harvard men, neither one typical, for Harvard has no type. Mr. Leiter wields a great deal of financial power. Mr. Roosevelt, as is well known, wields a great deal of political power. And finances and politics are important influences in our American life, even in time of war. It is pitiable that two such leaders should fall at outs and air their repartee through the cold medium of the press...
...There never was a time when the merchant marine problem more insistently called for solution. To take the place of the tonnage destroyed in the war our government is seeking to build wooden ships by the thousand. But an even greater question is involved; for the stability of our industries, the very prosperity of the country, depends in large part on our overseas shipping facilities. On account of the lack of ships our exporters have suffered severely from excessive freight rates, unfair discrimination in favor of foreign competitors and, in many cases, actual loss of business. The great factor...
...born of conquest nor ambition. La Patrie called him when her life seemed failing before that first terrible iron rush of the picked troops of Germany. And Joffre beat those troops back from before the very gates of Paris. It takes bravery of a finer kind than that demanded even of the sub-officer who leads a charge to vision victory when that cause for which one fights seems foredoomed to defeat. It takes bravery and determination against overwhelming odds...
...four companies of recruits were formed into a third battalion, and were put through the elements of military drill by the four Army Sergeants who are acting as company commanders. The progress made by this battalion, even in one day, was most encouraging. Today the recruits will be issued rifles, and will receive their first instruction under arms. Each company will report this morning at 9 o'clock at the place designated by the commanding sergeant when it was dismissed...
...such a time it is folly to make use of our resources in any other way save to promote that cause which we have undertaken, as an earnest nation, with our whole hearts. We have no surplus for the spendthrift ways of riches. It is folly to waste in even the least degree that natural fertility with which we are entrusted as warders for less fortunate peoples. And the folly of nations may well be the most evil of sins...