Word: roosevelt
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Under President McKinley in 1900 he was enrolled in the diplomatic service as ambassador to Italy. During President Roosevelt's administration he filled the post of ambassador to Italy. During President Roosevelt's administration he filled the post of ambassador to Russia, with conspicuous credit. His service in this capacity was especially noteworthy as coming at the time of the Russo-Japanese war, when St. Petersburg was one of the most important posts in the diplomatic service owing to the delicate condition of international relations and domestic unrest in Russia...
...only way to get peace is to win the war," declared James M. Beck, former assistant attorney-general under Roosevelt, before an audience of 2,500 college men on Saturday night in the Boston Opera House. "Unless the Prussian is beaten and knows that he is beaten, all the dead will have died in vain, for even if a treaty or peace could be secured at this time that would be wholly favorable to the Allies, but which left the Hohenzollern on his throne, as soon as Germany had recuperated its strength, as Prussia did under Frederick the Great...
...probably has argued more cases before the United States Supreme Court than any other contemporary attorney. He is an orator of international fame, an authority on trust cases and international law and is known almost as well in England as in New York and Washington. Under the Roosevelt administration Mr. Beck occupied the position of Attorney General, and to him was largely due the Northern Securities decision by the Supreme Court. He has also been identified with the New York Sun and the Philadelphia Record...
...whole-hearted immediate aim, Mr. Roosevelt concluded, must be to speed up the war in every possible way and at the earliest moment to make our military strength of decisive weight in Europe. Let us remember, he reminded his auditors, that "our troops fight abroad beside the Allies now so that at some future time they may not have to fight without allies beside their own ruined homes." This carried the 1,200 diners to their feet, cheering...
...future, only vision and firm purpose in preparing to deal with our industrial and military problems will enable us to guarantee future peaceful development at home and immunity from attack by other nations. In so saying Mr. Roosevelt did not fail to add that it would be foolhardy not to introduce a system of real preparedness based upon universal military training. Such an army, in his opinion and ours, would be not only the most democratic but might be the most efficient in the world. --The Outlook...