Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This sort of treatment of a deserving public servant is either very short-sighted policy or else it is a deliberate service to the enemy. Mr. Taft is well within the truth when he says that food conservation here, and the sparing of food supplies for Italy, France and England, is the only effective means that we have at this moment of fighting the common enemy. In treating as an enemy the man who has under his command this little fight of ours with wheat and corn and meat and sugar, the senators are in simple fact weakening our allies...
...Russia. We in America scarcely realized that there have been four million sick and wounded soldiers in Russia since the beginning of the war. I learned that 2,700,000 of them have passed through the hospitals in Moscow alone. For the most part these men have received adequate treatment in the hospitals which are maintained by the sanitary department of the army, the Russian Red Cross, and the Zempsvos Union. While in many ways Russia is capable of taking care of her wounded we found a great lack of certain supplies, namely, antitoxines, certain drugs, surgical instruments, microscopes...
...property and lives of Americans on the high seas, and within our own country. Behind these immediate and intolerable grievances was the purpose of the United States to join with other nations in preventing the growth of a prodigious world power, which has shown its arrogant domination by brutal treatment of weak powers...
...these he did not use sparingly. But think of the utter chaos which would result from Phillips Brooks lighting a cheroot in Phillips Brooks House in the year 1917. No mild reproval or honey-worded request would be tendered him. Forcible ejection would be the only method of treatment. Tobacco is now taboo in Phillips Brooks, and it would be so even in the case of the Bishop. Time doth work many marvellous changes indeed...
...minister, his stay in office was embittered by the virulent opposition of the extreme radicals, who on one occasion passed a vote of confidence in his successor upon his announcing identically the same program as the day before had caused M. Ribot's defeat. But in spite of such treatment he has been willing to perform every service in his power for the good of the country...