America and Americans: An Address by Edward Dean Adams to the Executive Staff and Employees of the All America Cables, Inc. at Their Annual Dinner, December 20, 1919, New York City - Couverture souple

Adams, Edward Dean; All America Cables, Inc

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1176162985 ISBN 13 : 9781176162983

Editeur : Nabu Press, 2010

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The 3ame and its Significance ON JANUARY 31, 1862, when lecturing in Washington before an audience which included President Lincoln, Ralph Waldo Emerson said: Vk America is another word for Opportunity WE, of the staff of the All America Cables, who study the business of our organization and strive to promote its interests, appreciate the vision of its founder, James A. Scrymser, when he availed of his opportunity to extend his cable enterprise into the continent we now know to be the original A merica. In our plans of development by an increase of our territory of usefulness in the southern continent of this hemisphere, we realize that it is indeed a land of opportunity. By acquaintance with the history of its peoples we understand that we have not hitherto fully appreciated that they have a prior claim to the designation of America and Americans which we may have assumed, in part at least, for our own country and people. Attention is therefore invited to some of the circumstances that make the new and popular title, ALL AMERICA CABLES, a fitting one for our Company. Discoveries made within the last 25 years have supplied some pages that were missing in the history of a period more than 400 years ago, and have changed opinions and corrected errors which had prevailed for several centuries, as to how the New World came to be called AMERICA. The great publicity accorded the discoveries of Christopher Columbus by reason of the royal patronage he enjoyed, and the pathetic drama of his later life and death, have given to this discoverer the admiration and sympathy of all people, whereas the voyages of Americus Vespucius, told only in his own brief 3 4-.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Nabu Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1176162985
• ISBN 13: 9781176162983
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 28
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible