Word: pacifists
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Massachusetts District and member of the House Committee on Ways and Means. In it he calls upon all members of the University to back up the President in whatever move he makes and to be prepared to face any crises that may arise. The smooth-tongued eloquence of the pacifist and alien resident must be avoided...
...hear any more talk about the "militant East" being for universal training and the "pacifist West" being against it. --Boston Record...
...there to whom the honor of your women is less dear than their lives? And yet you would give a veiled compliment to their sex by calling your country "she". What one of you is there who dares deny the open insult of Germany's defiance? What pacifist would have saved his own life on the Lusitania, to let a child and mother drown? And yet you say "life before honor...
Coolidge maintained that the opinions of the colleges had not been fairly represented by the so-called "pacifist delegates," and that the vote taken at the University in favor of universal training was the result of "individual feeling and common sense." "The way to end war," he said, "is not for the wealthiest and worst organized country in the world to lay itself open to attack." Coolidge also stated that he considered it far more advisable to provide for a training term of two months in four years instead of six months in one year. In that case the stores...
...policy of actively favoring military training, calls for a straw-vote without any previous discussion of the question, and arranges to send an official delegation to Washington on Thursday to lay the convincing results before the Senate Military Affairs Committee, in order to counteract the staggering effect of recent "pacifist" testimony. In former days the CRIMON has given us to believe that it possesses a mind of its own, inquiring and open, deliberative, not easily to be shaken. But not so in these when the world is drunk with state-sickness and when to be a liberal and an intellectual...