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  • World War. Y. M. C. A. 1919-03-19
  • Northwest history; World War 1; YMCA; Young Men's Christian Association; organizations; losses; deaths; casualties; statistics; women; trench warfare; awards; honors ;
  • The Y. M. C. A. carried the red triangle into the camps and trenches in France and Belgium at a cost of 53 lives, a sacrifice proportionately one-quarter as great as that in the American army, according to a general report received today from the...
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  • World War. Wilson (personal). 1918-12-10
  • Northwest history; World War 1; President Woodrow Wilson; United States; post-war; peace negotiations; American delegation; USS George Washington; Secretary of War Newton D. Baker; photographs ;
  • President Wilson waving goodbye from deck of liner George Washington, at lower right. (President is indicated by arrow.) Crew of liner cheering president on his arrival at the dock, and Secretary of War Baker waving goodbye to Wilson from pier.
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  • World War. Wilson (personal). 1918-12-10
  • Northwest history; World War 1; President Woodrow Wilson; United States; USS George Washington; Germany; German-American relations; President Freidrich Ebert of Germany; Prime Minister Kurt Eisner of Bavaria; Foreign Secretary Haase of Germany ;
  • According to a wireless dispatch from the U. S. S. George Washington, says Marcel Hutin in the Echo de Paris, President Wilson has been informed that Premier Ebert and Foreign Secretary Haase of the Berlin government and Premier Eisner of Bavaria...
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  • World War. Wilson (personal). 1918-10-14
  • Northwest history; World War 1; President Woodrow Wilson; United States; visitors; visits; New York, New York; Colonel E. M. House; Columbus day; celebrations; holidays ;
  • President Wilson returned to Washington tonight, after a two days' visit to New York. Colonel E. M. House, the president's close friend and advisor, accompanied the presidential party, which included Mrs. Wilson, Miss Margaret Wilson and Secretary...
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  • World War. Wilson (personal). 1918-01-20
  • Northwest history; World War 1; President Woodrow Wilson; United States; legislation; war board bill; Secretary of War Newton D. Baker; war cabinet; Senator Gilbert Hitchcock of Nebraska; Senator George Chamberlain of Oregon ;
  • President Wilson and Secretary Baker today began studying the senate military committee's proposed legislation to establish a war cabinet of three men to assist in general direction of the war and to create a director of munitions.
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  • World War. Wilson (personal). 1917-01-11
  • Northwest history; World War 1; President Woodrow Wilson; United States; legislation; United States army; government workers; employees; transportation ;
  • Notice of the signing by President Wilson in France of the first bill sent to the White House by congress after the president sailed last month was cabled today to Secretary Tumulty. It was the measure authorizing the payment of transportation home...
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  • World War. War debt. 1919-02-13
  • Northwest history; World War 1; war debts; cost of war; war expenses; Secretary of War Newton D. Baker; United States; American government; allies; central powers; entente powers ;
  • The total cost of the war to all belligerents, including the central powers, was placed at $193,000,000,000 by Secretary Baker in an address here tonight at the American women's "Victory dinner." This estimate, the secretary said, was based on...
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  • World War. War debt. 1918-03-22
  • Northwest history; World War 1; war debts; cost of war; war expenses; war credits; Germany; German government; Secretary of the Treasury Siegfried von Roedern of Germany; President Woodrow Wilson; militarism ;
  • A war credit of 15,000,000,000 marks was brought before the Reichstag today for first reading. Count von Roedern, secretary of the imperial treasury, said Germany's monthly war costs had increased from 2,000,000,000 marks in the winter of 1915-16...
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  • World War. Vocational training. 1919-06-29
  • Northwest history; World War 1; vocational training; disabled veterans; war veterans; disabilities; education; United States army; American soldiers; post-war; rehabilitation; Colonel Arthur Woods ;
  • Because of the failure of thousands of soldiers, crippled by the war, fully to understand their rights, particularly that involving re-education at government expense in callings suitable to their disability, Colonel Arthur Woods, assistant to the...
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  • World War. Visitors. 1918-03-13
  • Northwest history; World War 1; visitors; Secretary of War Newton D. Baker; President Woodrow Wilson; General John J. Pershing; Paris, France; London, England, Great Britain ;
  • Secretary Baker's letter to President Wilson asking for permission to absent himself from his office long enough to make an inspection trip of the American expeditionary forces in France and a visit to London and Paris was made public here today,...
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  • World War. Visitors. 1917-04-25
  • Northwest history; World War 1; visitors; France; French diplomats; Marshal Joseph Joffre of France; Prime Minister Rene Viviani of France; Washington, D. C.; United States; Secretary of State Robert Lansing ;
  • The French commission, headed by General Joffre and former Premier Viviani, landed safely at the Washington navy yard today soon after noon from the presidential yacht Mayflower.
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  • World War. Treaty of Versailles. 1920-01-07
  • Northwest history; World War 1; Treaty of Versailles 1919; peace treaty; treaties; peace negotiations; post-war; President Woodrow Wilson; United States. Democratic national committee; Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan ;
  • A resolution endorsing President Wilson's stand on the peace treaty and commending his efforts to establish a league of peace is to be laid before the democratic national committee at its meeting tomorrow with the backing of the committee officials.
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  • World War. Treaty of Versailles. 1920-01-03
  • Northwest history; World War 1; Treaty of Versailles 1919; peace treaty; treaties; peace negotiations; post-war; conferences; Kurt Von Lersner of Germany; General Secretary Paul Dutasta of France; illness; German delegation ;
  • Kurt Von Lersner, head of the German delegation at Versailles, is ill with a cold and will not be able to confer with Paul Dutasta, secretary of the peace conference, for a few days. Allied delegates and other German representatives today discussed...
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  • World War. Treaty of Versailles. 1919-11-29
  • Northwest history; World War 1; Treaty of Versailles 1919; peace treaty; treaties; peace negotiations; post-war; United States; American delegation; Under Secretary of State Frank Polk of United States; Ambassador Henry C. Wallace of United States ;
  • The peace conference will be ended so far as concerns the American delegates' participation when Under Secretary of State Polk and his assistants take the train for Brest a week from today. After that Ambassador Wallace, with the aid of a few...
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  • World War. Treaty of Versailles. 1919-11-21
  • Northwest history; World War 1; Treaty of Versailles 1919; peace treaty; treaties; peace negotiations; post-war; Secretary of War Newton D. Baker; United States government; league of nations; speeches ;
  • Acceptance of the league of nations would open one of the greatest epochs in the history of the world, Newton D. Baker, secretary of war, declared in opening the convention here tonight of the National Consumers' league, of which he is president....
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  • World War. Treaty of Versailles. 1919-11-02
  • Northwest history; World War 1; Treaty of Versailles 1919; peace treaty; treaties; peace negotiations; post-war; league of nations; ratification; Germany; Foreign Secretary A. J. Balfour of Great Britain; British delegation ;
  • "The question of when peace will be signed is one that nobody can answer," said A. J. Balfour, British foreign secretary, to English and American correspondents today. Asked if he thought it might be signed by April 1 he said that the date with...
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  • World War. Treaty of Versailles. 1919-08-05
  • Northwest history; World War 1; Treaty of Versailles 1919; peace treaty; treaties; peace negotiations; post-war; Austria; Austrian delegation; General Secretary Paul Eugene Dutasta of France ;
  • Dr. Karl Renner, the Austrian chancellor and head of Austria's peace delegation, informed General Secretary Dutasta of the peace conference today that Austria's counter proposals to the peace terms would be handed over tomorrow, within the...
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  • World War. Treaty of Versailles. 1919-06-29
  • Northwest history; World War 1; Treaty of Versailles 1919; peace treaty; treaties; peace negotiations; post-war; Washington, D. C., United States; President Woodrow Wilson; Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels; Senator Porter J. McCumber of North...
  • Word of the consummation of peace was received by the national capital with scarcely a flutter of popular or official sentiment.
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  • World War. Treaty of Versailles. 1919-06-27
  • Northwest history; World War 1; Treaty of Versailles 1919; peace treaty; treaties; peace negotiations; post-war; Chancellor Herman Mueller of Germany; Colonial Secretary Johannes Bell of Germany; German delegation ;
  • Foreign Secretary Mueller and Colonial Secretary Bell, the two German peace delegates on their way to Versailles, passed through Cologne at 9:45 o'clock this morning, a telephone message from Cologne reported.
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  • World War. Treaty of Versailles. 1919-06-27
  • Northwest history; World War 1; Treaty of Versailles 1919; peace treaty; treaties; peace negotiations; post-war; Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau of France; President Woodrow Wilson; United States; Prime Minister David Lloyd George of Great...
  • The order of precedence in signing the peace documents appears now to be established as follows:
    Premier Clemenceau first, as president of the peace conference, then President Wilson and next Premier Lloyd George.
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