Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Baron Pierre de Coubertin for the best speech in English upon some topic of contemporary French politics. The subject this year is: "Resolved, that the French government should take by taxation at least 75 per cent of the excess profits made by French manufacturers and tradesmen during the war...
...bring victory to the Teuton arms, an opportunity for the people of Berlin to hang out their flags and indulge in one of those celebrations which have become increasingly infrequent in the past months. It may eventually prove a cloud with a silver lining if the newly formed Allied War Committee, which will have supreme authority on all the fronts, succeeds in combining the disconnected activities of the many allied armies into one efficient and effective plan of action; if the particular aims of each nation are subordinated to the greater end--the complete defeat of the Hohenzollerns...
This is the message Major Ian Hay Beith gave to the Law School Society and the Graduate School Society yesterday evening. But such optimism as Ian Hay's must not be the cause of one moment's delay in our war preparations and in our firm dealing with all who hinder these preparations. Just as the Allies are concentrating all military affairs in one supreme command, so must we bend all our energies at home to the same united end. It is good to hear words of cheer, but they must lead only to greater determination...
...sentiment? It does not appear to have any intimate connection with politics, although the anti-suffragists make much or the fact that they are defeated in good company, for the movement has been steadily gaining ground both in England and the United States since the out-break of the war. Rather, it must be considered as a direct result of the war, an appreciation, on the part of the electorate, of the ability and patriotism that the women have shown since April last. In all matters of war relief and charity, they have shown themselves able organizers...
Peaceful, easy-going, democratic America, the America of "before the war," used to have a quiet contempt for uniforms. We tolerated them on railroad trains and in street cars, because they proved a convenience in helping us to identify the conductors. We rather liked to see them members of parading "jiners" and musical bands. They didn't set so well on bell hops, coachmen and chauffeurs; there they suggested to us an increase in snobbery. On policemen, firemen and mail carriers they gave no offence because these men were recognized as essential democrats in spite of them; and we knew...