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Aero Sq Air Serv ALABAMA aliens AMERICAN ARMY ASSOCIATION American Legion Applause Bennett Clark Bldg Brig Camp Capt Chairman CHAS Chicago citizenship City Colonel Lindsley Colonel Roosevelt comradeship Congress constitution Curtin delegates democracy Detroit DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA enlisted Eric Fisher Executive Committee France Frank Franklin D'Olier 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 military MISSOURI motion mutual helpfulness naval navy nomination officers OKLAHOMA organization Paris Caucus Paris Command patriotism Paul PENNSYLVANIA Philadelphia Pittsburgh Pocatello political question resolution Robt Seattle Secretary soldiers and sailors SOUTH CAROLINA SOUTH DAKOTA spirit Sullivan temporary committee TEXAS Theodore Roosevelt tion to-day United veterans VIRGINIA vote Washington WEST VIRGINIA WHEREAS York
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Page 183 - 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 116 - If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.
Page 167 - 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 176 - Columbia who were granted leave of absence to serve in the military and naval forces of the United States during the World War...
Page 167 - 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 x - 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 168 - December 7, 1941, and the date of cessation of hostilities as fixed by the United States Government, all dates inclusive, or who, being citizens of the United States at the time of enlistment, served in the military or naval services of any of the governments associated with the United States during...
Page 133 - 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 ix - 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.
Page 168 - All persons shall be eligible to membership in this organization who were in the military or naval service of the United States during the period between April 6, 1917, and November...