A History of the American Legion

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W. Green, 1923 - 320 頁

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第 84 頁 - Whereas, the question of adjustment of compensation or extra pay for service men and women was pending before Congress at the time the national convention of the American Legion in Minneapolis, November, 1919: and " Whereas, the American Legion in national convention assembled, left with confidence the discharge of this obligation to Congress ; and " Whereas, no definite action looking to...
第 104 頁 - the working class and the employing class have nothing in common. . . . Between these two classes a struggle must go on until all the toilers come together on the political, as well as the industrial field, and take and hold that which they produce by their labor...
第 62 頁 - 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 our comradeship by our devotion to mutual helpfulness.
第 148 頁 - THE AMERICAN LEGION shall be absolutely nonpolitical and shall not be used for the dissemination of partisan principles or for the promotion of the candidacy of any person seeking public office or preferment.
第 84 頁 - Government owes an obligation to all service men and women to relieve the financial disadvantages incidental to their military service — an obligation second only to that of caring for the disabled and for the widows and orphans of those who sacrificed their lives, and one already acknowledged by our Allies...
第 147 頁 - The corporation shall be non-political and, as an organization, shall not promote the candidacy of any person seeking public office.
第 29 頁 - We, the members of the Military and 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.
第 105 頁 - As a revolutionary organization the Industrial Workers of the World aims to use any and all tactics that will get the results sought with the least expenditure of time and energy. The tactics used are determined solely by the power of the organization to make good in their use. The question of right" and wrong
第 120 頁 - Such action, without prior authorization, of necessity may be prompt and vigorous, but should be designed for the preservation of law and order and the protection of life and property...
第 80 頁 - The first item calls for the abrogation of the so-called " gentleman's agreement " with Japan, and the exclusion of Japanese from the United States on the same principles as those adopted in the case of other Oriental races.

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