Wilson War Act Sets Foe Apart Under New Law
President Wilson issues a proclamation granting vast powers to two new bodies the War Trade Board and War Trade Council to regulate exports imports licenses and enforcement under the trading with the enemy act. The plan assigns authority to a broad group of federal departments and agencies including state treasury agriculture commerce and the shipping board.
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War Trade Board
War Trade Council
Washington
Wilson
Congress
United States
Secretary of State
Secretary of the Treasury
Secretary of Agriculture
Secretary of Commerce
Food Administrator
United States Shipping Board
Exports Administrative Board
Export Administrative Board
War Board
Ecretary of the Treasury
Periculture
The
Shipping Board
Secretary of War
Secretary of the Navy
Committee On Public Information
Censorship Board
Federal Trade Commission
Woodroww Wilson
White House
Treasury cites bond shrinkage aims and bank examiners
Washington officials plan to ease bond pressures by instructing national bank examiners not to require discounts on high grade bonds. The move targets preventing further decline in bond values and potential investor losses that could affect property-backed issues. Similar steps were noted by the controller at the outbreak of the European crisis.
Washington Newsroom Routine for War Era Covering Tumulty and Generals
Washington reporters detail daily press staffing from the White House to the War and Navy departments. They cite Baker and Daniels meeting correspondents, the Creel Committee at 10 Jackson Place, and Lansing at the State Department, with networks spanning National Guard and Army generals and close ties built in years of service.
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Washington
Army
Navy
State Departments
Hst
Congress
White House
Times
War
War Department
Newton D. Baker
United States Army
Navy Department
Josephus Daniels
Daniels
Baker
Public Information Office
Committee of Public Information
George Creel
Jackson Place
Lafayette Square
State
News Sentinel
Robert Lansing
Secretary of State
State Department
Daily
United
States
Academy
West Point
National Guard
Clarence R. Edwards
Camp Greene
N. C
Camp McClellan
Ala
Howards
Morton
Morrison
Kernan
Greble
Trent
Sage
Hodges
Strong
The
Hudson
National Army
H. F. Hodges
Chase W. Kennedy
Adelbert Cronkhite
H. O. Hale
J. T. Dickman
S. D. Sturgis
H. T. Allen
United States
Cheese Icicles and Marriage Prank Tale
A newlywed couple received a cheese as a gift. They hung it in the kitchen by a rope to display it. The husband cut the rope, the cheese burned, and they slept late. The wife woke to find icicles forming from the fire as the joke backfired.
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Jean
Red Cross Leaders Tour West to Explain War Fund Use
Henry P Davison and Harry D Gibson lead a Westward tour to meet Red Cross chapter leaders contributors and the public. They aim to report stewardship explain fund use and gather public sentiment while visiting St Louis Denver San Francisco Seattle Minneapolis Chicago and Cleveland with Rev Robert Davis accompanying.
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Washington
Red Cross War Council
Henry P. Davison
Harry D. Gibson
American Red Cross
Red Cross
War Council
St. Louis
Denver
San Francisco
Seattle
Minneapolis
Chicago
Cleveland
Davison
United States
France
Great Britain
Russia
Italy
Roumania
Serbia
War Fund
The
Gibson
Robert Davis
Englewood, N. J
Paris
American Red Cross Commission
Straw to Paper Called For by English Farmers
English farmers advocate making paper from straw to utilize 4.5 million tons of straw generated by 8 million additional acres of land under wheat. Before the war England produced paper, but war-time import bans on foreign pulp halted the industry. The board of agriculture has been asked to consider the plan.
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England
Board of Agriculture of
Island
Toleration as Proof of Love in Shipping Innovation
A brief note discusses tolerance as stronger than action and cites a Russian invention for preserving perishables over long ship distances. The method involves artificial ice made by freezing salt solutions at varying levels.
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Germany
Federal Trade Commission Wa
Treasury
Tumulty
Baker, Daniels
Lansing
George Clinton
Maine
Alahama
Edwards
Kennedy
Hale
Dickman
Sturgis
H. C. Hale
Camp Taylor
Kentucky
China
Harry
Samuel D. Sturgis
Eighty-seventh Division
Camp Pike
Arkansas
Seventh Cavalry
Custer
Morse
Benjamin C. Morse
One Hundred Sixty-ninth Infantry Brigade
Camp Custer
Mich
Joseph T. Dickman
Military Academy
Joseph B. Kuhn
Camp Meade
Maryland
Kuhn
Berlin
America
War College
West
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