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Aero Sq Air Serv ALABAMA aliens amendment AMERICAN ARMY ASSOCIATION American Legion Applause Bennett Clark Bldg Brig Camp Capt Chairman Charles CHAS Chicago citizenship City Colonel Lindsley Colonel Roosevelt Congress constitution convention Curtin delegates democracy Detroit DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA enlisted Eric Fisher Executive Committee France Frank Fred FURTHER RESOLVED Gentlemen George going Illinois J. P. Morgan J. P. Morgan IDAHO Jack Sullivan Jackson John KANSAS Lieutenant Colonel Louis Caucus Luke Lea M. G. Bn Major marine corps Massachusetts meeting military MISSOURI motion naval navy nomination NORTH DAKOTA officers OKLAHOMA organization Paris Caucus Paris Command patriotism Paul PENNSYLVANIA Philadelphia Pittsburgh Pocatello political represent resolution RHODE ISLAND ROBT Seattle Secretary soldiers and sailors SOUTH CAROLINA spirit Sullivan temporary committee TEXAS Theodore Roosevelt tion to-day United VIRGINIA vote Washington WEST VIRGINIA WHEREAS York
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Page 207 - America; to maintain law and order; to foster and perpetuate a one hundred per cent Americanism; to preserve the memories and incidents of our association in the Great War; to inculcate a sense of individual obligation to the community, state and nation; to combat the autocracy of both the classes and the masses; to make right the master of might; to promote peace and good will on earth; to safeguard and transmit to posterity the principles of justice, freedom and democracy; to consecrate and sanctify...
Page 138 - If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.
Page 191 - For God and Country we associate ourselves together for the following purposes: To uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America; to maintain law and order; to foster and perpetuate a one hundred per cent.
Page 200 - Columbia who were granted leave of absence to serve in the military and naval forces of the United States during the World War...
Page 191 - To make right the master of might; To promote peace and good will on earth; To safeguard and transmit to posterity The principles of Justice, Freedom and Democracy; And to consecrate and sanctify our comradeship By devotion to mutual helpfulness.
Page 191 - CONSTITUTION. ARTICLE I. — NAME. The name of this organization shall be the American Farm Bureau Federation.
Page 18 - Section 6. (a) The officers of the corporation shall be a president, one or more vicepresidents, a secretary, a treasurer, a Board of Directors, an Executive Committee, and such boards, councils, committees, and other officers as shall be prescribed in the Bylaws.
Page 192 - November 11, 1918, both dates inclusive, or who, being a citizen of the United States, at the time of his entry therein, served on active duty in the Naval, Military or Air forces of any of the Governments associated with the United States during the...
Page 155 - Statutes to the extent that said section provides for the education of the blind children of the District of Columbia, and that the permanent indefinite appropriation in question is still available for instructing the blind children of all persons in the military and naval service of the United States, in some institution in Maryland or some other State, and that the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to continue to issue permits for the instruction of such children. No permits for this class...
Page 18 - Naval services of the United States of America in the great war, desiring to perpetuate the principles of Justice, Freedom, and Democracy for which we have fought, to inculcate the duty and obligation of the citizen to the state; to preserve the history and incidents of our participation in the war; and to cement the ties of comradeship formed in service, do propose to found and establish an association for the furtherance of the foregoing purposes.