Word: ordered
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Moreover we look to America to be the leader in the formation of an International Consortium which shall finance China. For three reasons the formation of such a partnership is essential to our welfare. First, in order to secure the large sums of money which are necessary to finance new railroads, and other forms of communication, to reform the monetary system of China, and to develop industrial and commercial enterprises. Secondly, to insure the expenditures of money so loaned to us upon the objects for which it is borrowed by the Chinese government...
...last, after we had had a cup of tea with President Lowell, we rejoined our train again, followed by the cheers of fifty thousand motorists, who, in order to celebrate the victor of the Yser, not only shouted wildly but tooted their horns as well. What a glorious day this...
...hostilities was to be the panacea for all wrong; the nation was to settle down, and with a clean slate start anew. The war had taught us lessons in patriotism, co-operation and economy. One of its dearly-bought advantages was to be a national house-cleaning. The old order was dead, and we were going through fire that a newer and cleaner order might arise from its ashes...
...members of the University are invited to attend the demonstration and to vote. In order that the men most interested may be assured an opportunity to vote the following schedule of voting hours has been arranged...
...experiment. One of the great weaknesses of our democracy is that our views, as a nation, are not organized. Certain groups, like the Chambers of Commerce, the American Legion, the Non-Partisan League, and the American Federation of Labor, occasionally carry on agitation and bring pressure to bear in order to influence legislation. And government in America has been defined as the result of the pressure of these organized opinions on the Central Legislative Body. But the great mass of American sentiment remains unorganized, and expresses itself only through admittedly inadequate mediums--individual communications, mass meetings called for special purposes...