The day before the Senate convicts Ferguson on 10 charges, he resigns. Sul Ross State University created in Alpine. On April 2, President Wilson asks Congress for a declaration of war. By October, U.S. troops are stationed on the battlefront in France. In the rest of the world, there are only an estimated 719,000 motor vehicles.
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