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- 891: Cuban Missle Crisis
- ... in exchange for a public promise from the US not to invade Cuba. Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, told Fomin that the US government saw real possibilities, but that time was very urgent, and the proposal could take too much time. At 6:00 that night, the White House received a letter from Khrushchev which stated that the Soviet Union would declare that all of their ships bound for Cuba were ...
- 892: Civil War
- ... Sherman. Westport, Conn.:Greenwood Press, 1972). Grant had decided that the only way to win and finish the war would be to crunch with numbers. He knew that the Federal forces held more than a modest advantage in terms of men and supplies. This in mind, Grant directed Sherman to turn around now and start heading back toward Virginia. He immediately started making preparations to provide assistance to Sherman on the ...
- 893: Amish Culture
- ... or during church sermons, and a black bonnet when outside. The girls dress like their mothers except they do not wear prayer caps until they have joined church. Old order Amish women and girls wear modest dresses made from solid-colored fabric with long sleeves and a full skirt. These skirts are restricted to be no shorter than halfway between the knee and floor. These dresses are covered with a cape ...
- 894: African Americans
- ... grown from three-quarters of a million in 1790 to nearly 30 million in 1990. As a percentage of the total population, blacks declined from 19.3 in 1790 to 9.7 in 1930. A modest percentage increase has occurred since that time. Over the past 300 and more years in the United States, considerable racial mixture has taken place between persons of African descent and those with other racial backgrounds ...
- 895: Walt Whitman
- ... in New Jersey, only to become more depressed and move in with the Stafford family. Whitman struggled to support himself through most of his life. In Washington, he lived on a clerk's salary and modest royalties. He spent any excess money, including gifts from friends, to buy supplies for the patients he nursed. (Current, Williams, and Freidel- page 293). He also sent money to his widowed mother and an invalid ...
- 896: Slavery - Events That Effected Slavery
- ... could then open the way to lay down railroad tracks. Southern senators, however, balked at any bill that would allow the ban on slavery in the territories to continue. Douglas reworked his bill. His new proposal divided the area into two territories: that of Kansas and that of Nebraska. It was implied, but not started, that Kansas would become a slave state, and Nebraska would be free of slavery. He also ...
- 897: Slave Ownership In The Southern United States
- ... the percentages of slaveholders in 1860 to the percentages of first, investors and then employers in the mid 1900s. In the first instance he chooses the year 1949 and uses what he calls "a very modest estimate of $5,000" as an investment comparable to the investment of one slave in 1860. From this he discovers that "in 1949 only 2 percent of the spending units (families) in the United States ...
- 898: Political Policies Between The United States And The Soviet
- ... it was a way of managing the emergence of the Soviet power. The Soviet leaders, on the other hand, saw it as a way of managing the transition of the United States to a more modest role in international relations from one of superiority. Each country saw itself as the manager of transition in an age of nuclear parity. Richard Nixon said, "our goal is different to theirs. We seek peace ...
- 899: The American Civil War
- ... Sherman. Westport, Conn.:Greenwood Press, 1972). Grant had decided that the only way to win and finish the war would be to crunch with numbers. He knew that the Federal forces held more than a modest advantage in terms of men and supplies. This in mind, Grant directed Sherman to turn around now and start heading back toward Virginia. He immediately started making preparations to provide assistance to Sherman on the ...
- 900: Labor Unions
- ... establish industrial democracy and socialism. Others have viewed unions as highly conservative institutions returning to workers the status lost in the transition from village societies to urban anonymity. In reality, their role has been more modest. In the early 1980's they enrolled in their ranks only one of five members of the labor force, down from one of four in the 1950's and 1960's. These workers had a ...
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