I think it is a completely minor detail.
I think it probably goes back to the days of—when did we first get California? 1847, wasn't it?
I do hereby proclaim that a state of war unhappily exists between Germany, on the one hand, and Belgium, Luxemburg, and ...
They have often served to keep lines of communication open when disorder, war, or misfortune closed other channels.
Whereas, under the treaties of the United States and the law of nations it is the duty of the United States, in any war ...
All transfers of credit between any banking institutions within the United States; and all transfers of credit between a...
The export or withdrawal from the United States, or the earmarking of gold or silver coin or bullion or currency by any ...
I urge all Americans who have a feeling of deep sympathy for the peoples of those unfortunate countries to respond quick...
Any transaction for the purpose or which has the effect of evading or avoiding the foregoing prohibitions is prohibited.
The overwhelming greater part of the population of the world abhors conquest and war and bloodshed.
We, and most of the people in the World, still believe in a civilization of construction and not of destruction.