Secrets of German ProgressFatherland corporation, 1915 - 306 pages |
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Page 142 - Was not the right to work openly proclaimed at the time of the publication of the common law? Is it not established in all our social arrangements, that the man who comes before his fellow citizens and says, 'I am healthy, I desire to work, but can find no work,' is entitled to say also, 'Give me work/ and that the state is bound to give him work.
Page 260 - In addition, it would charge 22 per cent per annum as discount/interest for pre-payment (advance against uncollected and not due receivables) to the extent of 80 per cent of the value of the receivables. The guaranteed payment/collection date is 60 days.
Page 61 - Empire, consists of an Upper and a Lower House. The Upper House (Herrenhaus) is formed, 1st, of the princes of the Imperial family who are of age...
Page 212 - Whether they will be able to do so remains to be seen for it is her unique achievement.
Page 224 - Before now we have had to wipe out of existence a fleet which we had reason to believe might be used as a weapon to our hurt. There are not wanting those both in this country and on the Continent who regard the German fleet as the one and only menace to the preservation of peace in Europe. This may or may not be the case. We are content to point out that the present moment is particularly opportune for asking that this fleet...
Page 224 - If Germany were extinguished tomorrow, the day after tomorrow there is not an Englishman in the world who would not be the richer. Nations have fought for years over a city or a right of succession; must they not fight for two hundred and fifty million pounds of yearly commerce...
Page 224 - A few days, and the ships would be at the bottom, or in convoy to English ports; Hamburg and Bremen, the Kiel Canal and the Baltic ports would lie under the guns of England, waiting until the indemnity were settled. Our work over, we need not even be at the pains to alter Bismarck's words to Ferry and to say to France and Russia, ' Seek some compensation. Take inside Germany whatever you like. You can have it.
Page 87 - Film stockholders ; for the independent exhibitor throughout all of the United States, as well as throughout the rest of the world...
Page 235 - A. — In the decade 1881-90, there were 1,342,000 German emigrants, as against a total birth excess of 5,500,000; in the following decade there were still 528,000 emigrants to 7,300,000 net births; but in the decade 1901-10, when the birth excess rose to 8,670,000 the number of emigrants sank to 220,000, or 22,000 a year. Q.