When the United States entered the First World War Baker made certain that the Draft Act of 1917 prohibited the sale of liquor to men in uniform and that it provided for broad zones around the camps in which prostitution was outlawed.

* 1917 – World War I: The United States declares war on Germany ( see President Woodrow Wilson's address to Congress ).

* Elmer, Robert P. ( Robert Potter ) ( 1917 ) American Archery ; a Vade Mecum of the Art of Shooting with the Long Bow Columbus, OH: National Archery Association of the United States

The official name of the Territory is still simply the " Virgin Islands ", but the prefix " British " is often used to distinguish it from the neighbouring American territory which changed its name from the " Danish West Indies " to " Virgin Islands of the United States " in 1917.

Captain Bernard Montgomery DSO with a fellow officer of 104th Brigade ( United Kingdom ) | 104th Brigade, 35th Division ( United Kingdom ) | 35th Division, with which he served from January 1915 until early 1917

The Balfour Declaration ( dated 2 November 1917 ) was a letter from the United Kingdom's Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Baron Rothschild ( Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild ), a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland.

Category: 1917 in the United Kingdom

* 1917 – World War I: The United States declares war on Austria-Hungary.

* 1917 – The resolution containing the language of the Eighteenth Amendment to enact Prohibition is passed by the United States Congress.

The First National Exhibitors ' Circuit was founded in 1917 by the merger of 26 of the biggest first run cinema chains in the United States of America, eventually controlling over 600 cinemas, more than 200 of them so-called " first run " houses ( as opposed to the " second run " neighborhood theaters to which films moved when their first run boxoffice receipts dwindled ).

* 1917 – World War I: The U. S. ambassador to the United Kingdom is given the Zimmermann Telegram, in which Germany pledges to ensure the return of New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona to Mexico if Mexico declares war on the United States.

* 1917 – The Congress of the United States passes the Immigration Act of 1917 over President Woodrow Wilson's veto.

*, a United States Navy minesweeper and tug in commission from 1917 to 1919

LaGuardia took office on March 4, 1917 but soon was commissioned in the United States Army Air Service ; he rose to the rank of major in command of a unit of Ca. 44 bombers on the Italian-Austrian front in World War I. LaGuardia resigned his seat in Congress on December 31, 1919.

On one side were Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria ( the Central Powers / Triple Alliance ), while on the other side stood Serbia and the Triple Entente – the loose coalition of France, Britain and Russia, which were joined by Italy in 1915, Romania in 1916 and by the United States in 1917.

Hawks left Cornell in April 1917 when the United States declared war on Germany and entered World War I.

Germany led the Central Powers in the First World War ( 1914 – 1918 ) against France, Great Britain, Russia and ( by 1917 ) the United States.

The United States joined with the Allies in April 1917.

The Royal Geographical Society was founded in England in 1830, although the United Kingdom did not get its first full Chair of geography until 1917.

After the United States entered the war in April 1917, President Woodrow Wilson appointed Hoover to head the U. S. Food Administration.

In 1917, the United States entered World War I and the military demanded motorcycles for the war effort.

After re-organizing as the National Hockey League ( NHL ) in 1917, the league expanded into the United States in 1924.

* 1917 – World War I: Conscription begins in the United States as " Army registration day ".

* 1917 – The United States pays Denmark $ 25 million for the Virgin Islands.

* 1917 – World War I: President Woodrow Wilson of the still-neutral United States calls for " peace without victory " in Europe.

* 1917 – William Scranton, American politician, 13th United States Ambassador to the United Nations

The paper was purchased by William Randolph Hearst in 1917.

( In 1917, jeweler Pierre Cartier purchased the Fifth Avenue mansion that is now the New York Cartier store in exchange for a matched, double strand of natural pearls that he had been collecting for years ; valued at the time at $ 1 million USD.

In 1917, a treaty was concluded in which the United States purchased the islands for $ 25, 000, 000.

In 1917, the United States purchased the islands, which had been in economic decline since the abolition of slavery.

The most famous example is Fountain ( 1917 ), a standard urinal purchased from a hardware store and displayed on a pedestal, resting on its side.

In 1917, the city of Mesa purchased the utility company.

In 1917, the United States Army purchased of land about seven miles ( 11 km ) north of Savanna to construct the Savanna Army Depot.

* 1912-1924 Baltimore & Ohio purchased the rail line servicing Gilboa in 1912 and shut it down sometime between 1917 & 1924 ( Railroad records say by 1919 but a 1922 map shows the railroad while a 1924 ODOT map does not ).

It was purchased and restored in 1917 by Alexis Prior.

In connection with a 1917 master plan for a central Chicago campus and President Walter D. Scott's capital campaign, of land were purchased at the corner of Chicago Avenue and Lake Shore Drive for $ 1. 5 million in 1920.

In 1916, the Thomas B. Jeffery Company was purchased by Charles W. Nash and became Nash Motors Company in 1917.

She was purchased from the Eastern Steamship Line of Boston, Massachusetts and commissioned 14 December 1917, at the Boston Navy Yard.

*, was purchased by the US Navy as SS Massachusetts from the Eastern Steamship Co. in 1917 ; commissioned 7 December 1917 and renamed Shawmut 7 January 1918

*, was a steam trawler purchased by the US Navy 18 April 1917 and sold 1 December 1919

The railroad was declared bankrupt in 1917 and purchased a year later.

Founded in 1917 by Albert Boni and Horace Liveright as an imprint of their publishing company Boni & Liveright, it was purchased in 1925 by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer.

The city tram of Kobe opened in 1910 by a private company and was purchased by the city government in 1917.

In 1917 Alfred Loomis and Landon K. Thorne, the wealthy husband of Loomis's sister Julia, purchased of Hilton Head Island, which they established as a private preserve for riding, boating, fishing, and hunting.

Mack trucks earned this nickname in 1917, during World War I, when the British government purchased the Mack AC model to supply its front lines with troops, food and equipment.

In 1917, the United States purchased the former Danish colony of St. Croix, St. John and St. Thomas, which is now the U. S. Virgin Islands.

Since the Sisters of Jesus and Mary ( a religious order ( Roman Catholic )), purchased the site in 1917, there have been a significant number of new developments at the school, most recently an award winning Science and Junior Classroom wing ( AVDC Outstanding Design Award ).

*, a tugboat purchased in 1917, renamed Mendota ( YT-3 ) in 1920, then to Muscotah in 1932, and placed out of service in 1934

In 1917, St. Thomas was purchased ( along with Saint John and Saint Croix ) by the United States for $ 25 million in gold, as part of a defensive strategy to maintain control over the Caribbean and the Panama Canal during the First World War.