Word: lusitania
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Finally, Mr. Paine's idea that we could not have insisted on our rights at the time the Lusitania was sunk without causing war, because Germany was ready to defy us, is immediately refuted by his following statement that Germany has later respected them. It is unfortunate that this time the Democrats cannot "both eat their cake and have it too." If Germany had been so ready to defy us, she wouldn't have yielded up her profitable submarine campaign. Her final yielding, however, which was due more to respect for the power of the aroused American people than...
...Europe our record is no better. We have failed more shamefully than in Mexico to maintain our rights on land and sea. We failed to prevent the loss of American lives on the Lusitania; we failed to prevent British bullying and piracy on the high seas. Had we made our principle of strict accountability clear and unmistakable before the Lusitania sailed, we might have prevented a great catastrophe, and moreover retained the respect of a great nation. Had we brought England to her senses by so simple an expedient as the stoppage of munitions, we might have prevented the pilfering...
...Cuttriss, "Romany Life"; F. J. H. Darton, "Arnold Bennett"; L. Daudet, "L'Entre Deux Guerres"; F. Dostoevsky, "The Insulted and the Injured"; W. L. George. "Anatole France"; H. Green, "The Log of a Non-Combatant"; R. Herrick, "The World Decision"; L. Johnson, "Poetical Works"; C. E. Lauriate, Jr., "The Lusitania's Last Voyage"; G. E. Lessing, "Saintliche Schriften"; T. R. Lounsbury, "The Life and Times of Tennyson"; J. Macy and J. W. Gannaway, "Co-operative Free Government"; G. G. Montgomery, "Modern Auction"; J. G. Neihardt, "A Bundle of Myrrh"; G. Pollock, "Fifty Years of American Idealism"; Dr. M. G. Overlock...
...establishment of two endowments at Yale in memory of persons who lost their lives in the Lusitania disaster was announced at the last meeting of the Yale corporation. Ogden Hammond, Yale '93, has given $14,000 for the establishment of a publication fund in the Semetic department in memory of Mrs. Hammond and in recognition of the distinguished services to Yale of Professor A. T. Clay...
...other endowment is in memory of E. B. Thompson, Yale '04, whose life was lost when the Lusitania sank. A scholarship of $600 annually in the Sheffield Scientific School is to be awarded to graduates of the Shield High School, Seymuor, Md., from which institution Mr. Thompson was graduated. The fund is established by his widow...