A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, 1789-1922, Volume 17Bureau of national literature and art, 1917 |
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Page 8177
... registration until his application for registration has been approved by the Department . The general principles which govern applications for passports also govern applications for registration . ( Paragraph 151. ) The forms of ...
... registration until his application for registration has been approved by the Department . The general principles which govern applications for passports also govern applications for registration . ( Paragraph 151. ) The forms of ...
Page 8178
... registration additional to these rules and not inconsistent with them . No fee shall be required for registration nor for any service connected therewith , except for the issuance of a certificate of registration , for which a fee of ...
... registration additional to these rules and not inconsistent with them . No fee shall be required for registration nor for any service connected therewith , except for the issuance of a certificate of registration , for which a fee of ...
Page 8256
... [ Registration for draft . ] EXECUTIVE MANSION , WASHINGTON , D. C. , May 18 , 1917 . Whereas , Congress has enacted and the President has on the 18th day of May , one thousand nine hundred and seventeen , approved a law , which contains ...
... [ Registration for draft . ] EXECUTIVE MANSION , WASHINGTON , D. C. , May 18 , 1917 . Whereas , Congress has enacted and the President has on the 18th day of May , one thousand nine hundred and seventeen , approved a law , which contains ...
Page 8257
... registration , it shall be the duty of all persons of the designated ages , except officers and enlisted men of the regular army , the navy , and the National Guard and Naval Militia while in the service of the United States , to ...
... registration , it shall be the duty of all persons of the designated ages , except officers and enlisted men of the regular army , the navy , and the National Guard and Naval Militia while in the service of the United States , to ...
Page 8258
... registration in the several States and in the District of Columbia in accordance with the above law , that the time and place of such registra- tion shall be between 7 A. M. and 7 P. M. on the fifth day of June , 1917 , at the registration ...
... registration in the several States and in the District of Columbia in accordance with the above law , that the time and place of such registra- tion shall be between 7 A. M. and 7 P. M. on the fifth day of June , 1917 , at the registration ...
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Popular passages
Page 8229 - ... we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts — for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own Governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free.
Page 8412 - A free, open-minded, and absolutely impartial adjustment of all colonial claims, based upon a strict observance of the principle that in determining all such questions of sovereignty the interests of the populations concerned must have equal weight with the equitable claims of the Government whose title is to be determined.
Page 8225 - We are at the beginning of an age in which it will be insisted that the same standards of conduct and of responsibility for wrong done shall be observed among nations and their governments that are observed among the individual citizens of civilized states.
Page 8380 - That the state of war between the United States and the Imperial German Government which has thus been thrust upon the United States is hereby formally declared...
Page 8298 - ... under such regulations and orders, and subject to such limitations and exceptions as the President shall prescribe, until otherwise ordered by the President or by Congress: Provided, however, That no preference shall be given to the ports of one State over those of another.
Page 8226 - ... political structure, long as it had stood and terrible as was the reality of its power, was not in fact Russian in origin, character, or purpose; and now it has been shaken off and the great, generous Russian people have been added, in all their naive majesty and might, to the forces that are fighting for freedom in the world, for justice, and for peace. Here is a fit, partner for a League of Honor.
Page 8416 - An act to provide further for the national security and defense by encouraging the production, conserving the supply, and controlling the distribution of those ores, metals, and minerals which have formerly been largely imported, or of which there is or may be an inadequate supply.
Page 8397 - States is hereby formally declared, and that the President be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to employ the entire naval and military forces of the United States...
Page 8203 - 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 no choice but to sever diplomatic relations with the German Empire altogether.
Page 8227 - ... for the ultimate peace of the world and for the liberation of its peoples, the German people included : for the rights of nations great and small and the privilege of men everywhere to choose their way of life and of obedience. The world must be made safe for democracy.