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$5 stamp agents amount of War-Savings armies Austria-Hungary authorized agencies badge Bank banker Belgium Bldg boys and girls BTZO Bulgaria Buy War-Savings Stamps child compounded quarterly cost December 21 democracy Director dollars earn employees expenditures fighting France GEORGE BASS German Government high seas holder honor income January January 31 labor and materials lend Liberty bonds Liberty Loan maturity value meeting members and War-Savings membership Meroz money-order post office month National War-Savings Committee organization patriotic penny person Potsdam PRINTING OFFICE 1918 pupils purchase registered sale of War-Savings SAVE LIVES WASHINGTON SAVE MONEY savers SAVINGS STAMPS ISSUED School War-Savings Society Secretary secure Serbia soldiers spend stamp affixed Stamp or Thrift Stamps and Thrift Street suggested supply taxes teachers things Thrift Card Thrift Stamps to-day Treasury bills Union Sacrée UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT victory W.S.S. WAR SAVINGS War-Savings Certificate War-Savings Plan War-Savings pledges waste
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Page 12 - Under these circumstances Germany will meet the illegal measures of her enemies by forcibly preventing after February 1, 1917, in a zone around Great Britain, France, Italy, and in the Eastern Mediterranean all navigation, that of neutrals included, from and to England and from and to France, etc., etc. All ships met within the zone will be sunk.
Page 12 - ... the Government of the United States must consider the sacred and indisputable rules of international law and the universally recognized dictates of humanity, the Government of the United States is at last forced to the conclusion that there is but one course it can pursue. Unless the Imperial Government should now immediately declare and effect an abandonment of its present methods of submarine warfare against passenger and freight carrying vessels, the Government of the United States can have...
Page 11 - Liners will not be sunk by our submarines without warning and without safety of the lives of noncombatants, provided that the liners do not try to escape or offer resistance.
Page 13 - I think that you will agree with me that, in view of this declaration, which suddenly and without prior intimation of any kind deliberately withdraws the solemn assurance given in the Imperial Government's note of the 4th of May, 1916, this Government has no alternative consistent with the dignity and honor of the United States...
Page 13 - I have, therefore, directed the Secretary of State to announce to His Excellency the German Ambassador that all diplomatic relations between the United States and the German Empire are severed, and that the American Ambassador...
Page 28 - If you want to know whether you are destined to be a success or a failure in life, you can easily find out. The test is simple and it is infallible : Are you able to save money ? If not, drop out. You will lose. You may think not, but you will lose as sure as you live. The seed of success is not in you.
Page 12 - Government that if it is still its purpose to prosecute relentless and indiscriminate warfare against vessels of commerce by the use of submarines, notwithstanding the now demonstrated impossibility of conducting that warfare in accordance with what the Government of the United States must consider the sacred and indisputable rules of international law and the universally recognized dictates of humanity, the Government of the United States is...
Page 27 - We have studied as perhaps no other nation has, the most effective means of production, but we have not studied cost or economy as we should either as organizers of industry, as statesmen, or as individuals.
Page 12 - ... what the Government of the United States must consider the sacred and indisputable rules of international law and the universally recognized dictates of humanity, the Government of the United States is at last forced to the conclusion that there is but one course it can pursue...
Page 12 - Germany has notwithstanding limited her submarine warfare, because of her long-standing friendship with the United States and because by the sinking of the Lusitania. which caused the death of citizens of the United States, the German retaliation affected neutrals which was not the intention, as retaliation should be confined to enemy subjects.