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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...then the throng having collected, representative of the South's chivalry and the South's courage, the mob thrust their victim into a small steel cage from which there was no escape. They bound him by chains at the hands and feet. Lest he, no doubt, should, although a member of the despised race and one against thousands, put to rout these courageous Southern gentlemen. When they had bound him, the chains being hard and the steel bars strong, they tortured him; the mob, with the fiendish tortures which from time immemorial have been the pastime of savages. And when...
...unstable, and that fact had been manifesting itself in a rising price of gold in terms of greenbacks in "futures" in the gold exchange in New York. Congress, therefore, by law closed the gold exchange, and forbade "futures" in gold and foreign exchange. Buying and selling went on--in small, demoralized markets. Gold was worth 198 in green-backs on the day the law passed. The next day it went to 208; the next day to 230, and by the end of the month 250. Prices fluctuated wildly. On July 2, without debate, the Congress repealed the act! The trouble...
Some of the huge amount of money which we must pay for war may come out of the current generation by taxes. Yet such taxes can both theoretically and actually pay but a small part of the heavy cost. The Government has offered millions of dollars in bonds to be subsidized for by the people. In this way coming generations may help pay for the cost of the war which we wage for the whole future no less than for the present...
Course in Small Problems for Infantry. Text: Bjornstad...
Cadet privates are far too lax in observing this obligation. Cadet officers feel compelled to be lax in demanding its observance. It is a small thing; but many small things mark the mediocre from the good officer...