Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...long discussion was taken up by the short speeches of various members who supported the measure, but wished to put themselves on record as reluctantly accepting war as the only course of honor. The one final step which will make the resolution complete is the signature of President Wilson, which will be affixed early this morning...
...Senate adjourned Wednesday night to meet again at noon tomorrow. As the resolution must be returned to the Senate while that body is in session, the Senate while that body is in session, President Wilson will not receive the historical document for signature until this afternoon. From the moment of his approval war will...
...Federal service, and an additional 1,000,000 men are to be raised by selective drafting. Telegraphic orders for the mobilization of 15,000 members of the Naval Militia and the Naval Reserve will be flashed throughout the land immediately upon the signing of the war resolution by President Wilson. Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo has asked that Congress appropriate immediately $3,502,- 517,000 to finance the war for one year. A bond issue to be absorbed by the Federal Reserve Banks, and increased taxation on estates, incomes, whisky, beer and tobacco, will be resorted to to raise...
Harvard's attitude towards pacifism and unpatriotic propaganda is unmistakable. The members of the Faculty, in a memorial to President Wilson bearing over two hundred signatures, have placed the University officially on record as favoring a firm foreign policy and the maintenance of our national principles and international rights. The activities of the R. O. T. C., the Naval Reserve, and the Flying Corps, and the large majority of votes in favor of some form of compulsory military training show clearly that the undergraduate body supports military preparation...
...evening at 5 o'clock, when he speaks on "Who Steers the Ship of State?" All the topics come under the general subject of "Government," and they will be as follows: April 11, Professor Arthur Norman Holcombe '06, on "The Inside of State Government"; April 18, Professor George Grafton Wilson, on "International Rights and Duties of American Citizens"; May 2, Professor G. C. Whipple, on "The Inner Life of the City"; May 9, Prof. W. B. Munro '99, on "What City Government Means...