Word: formality
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...such a vessel comes in sight of a submarine and, as was suggested by a Senator in debate, "Shoots at sight," the Germans would have a right under international law to consider it a hostile act and the beginning of formal war on the part of the United States. The immunity from armed attack except on due notice, which the United States justly claims for our merchantmen, holds only if such vessels do not attack nor resist nor flee...
Today is the last day on which formal applications for training in the Aviation Section of the Officers' Reserve Corps can be made as they are to be sent to Washington tomorrow. Anyone desiring to make this application should take two letters to 42 Water street, Boston; one from his father or guardian stating that he approves of his entering this service and one from some other citizen as to the applicant's character...
...hundred and twenty-five men have made preliminary applications and out of this number 55 have filed their formal applications. Five members of the University have already gone to Miami, Fla., for training and ten more have signified their desire to go at once. The training will take place this summer or sooner in case of war, and will probably be at the Government Aero Training School at Mineola...
These letters should be addressed to the Chief Signal Officer, U. S. A., Washington, D. C., and should be taken to 42 Water street, Boston, where a formal application to be filed with the War Department will be prepared...
...University men who intend to take the government course in aviation are asked, after making out their preliminary blanks and having these endorsed by a committee composed of the University licensed aviators and Roger Amory '10, to then make out their formal applications, both of these to be forwarded to the Aviation Section, Washington, D. C. On their formal application men will state when they will be available for training, that is, whether they wish to begin immediately or wait until next summer...