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- 2701: JFK: Was His Assassination Ine
- ... Two of the biggest were the big businessmen and the "rednecks". Both of these groups were intimidated by the Kennedy administration. Kennedy tried to find a middle road between black and white radicals. His human-rights activities earned him the hatred of all racists. And as for big business, he angered them by obliging steel manufacturers to reverse price increases, as well as introducing a tax-reform legislation that would end ...
- 2702: Andrew Carnegie On The Gospel
- ... the same as in giving money for education and sciences. The problem, however, was that there was such a contrast between the rich and the poor. By this he was referring to the inequalities in rights, hereditary powers, and such things. He also felt we should have a continuum of forward progress, i.e. civilizing, industrializing. Apparently in his time there was a movement to drift back into a time when ...
- 2703: Abraham Lincoln
- ... after the Civil War began, and Abe had to take on a problem that is more severe than any preceding president. During his second year in office, on April 16, 1862, Lincoln finally signed a bill that abolished slavery throughout the land. On November 19, 1863, Lincoln was called to deliver a speech at the battle sight in Gettysburg. Although Lincoln's speech was short, it was definitely a masterpiece. On ...
- 2704: Daniel Webster
- ... party, allying himself with Westerner Henry CLAY and endorsing federal aid for roads in the West. In 1828, the dominant economic interests of Massachusetts having shifted from shipping to manufacturing, Webster backed the high-tariff bill of that year. Angry Southern leaders condemned the tariff, and South Carolina's John C. CALHOUN argued that his state had the right to nullify the law. Replying to South Carolina's Robert HAYNE in ...
- 2705: Adolf Hitler
- ... full power of Germany. Hitler preferred the name Fuhrer und Reichskanzer meaning "leader." With the Nazi party controlling Germany, Jews were ordered around frequently. In 1935 the Jews in Germany were declared to have lesser rights than any other citizens. Thousands of Jews decided to leave their homes. The Jews who stayed were forced into concentration camps and needed official permission to accept work, move, or even travel. Hitler set up ...
- 2706: Thomas Edison
- ... telegraph device. Once, Edison fixed a broken stock ticker so well that that the owners hired him to build a better one. Within a year he made the Edison Universal Stock Printer. Edison sold the rights for the stock ticker. He thought he might get paid around $4,000 for it. He got $40,000! With all this money, Edison started a business in Newark, New Jersey. He built stock tickers ...
- 2707: Sojourner Truth
- ... himself, as well as the rest of the male population. Sojourner showed her determination as exemplified earlier in the Narrative by fighting for what was right. You need not be afraid to give us our rights for fear we'll take too much... if woman upset the world, do give her a chance to set it right side up again. 7 Sojourner Truth Was born into slavery in 1797 under the ...
- 2708: Poul Voulkos Ceramist
- ... after high school. But in 1943, he was drafted into the U.S. Army Air Corps and was stationed in the central Pacific as an airplane armorer and gunner. After the war, the G.I. Bill offered him a college education, so he studied painting at Montana State College, now Montana State University, and took ceramics courses during his junior year, graduating in 1951. Voulkos had a natural aptitude for clay ...
- 2709: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
- ... found that in South Africa he was considered as a second class citizen even though he was a well educated Lawyer. This started his first 'mission'. To get India's residing in South Africa equal rights. In this action he discovered a technique of resistance that is non-violent and more to the fact of accepting a persons violence, allowing them to so the damage they inflict on you, and letting ...
- 2710: Life And Legend Of Howard Hugh
- ... stretching the imagination as this yarn has turned out to be. I dont know whats in the autobiography. I dont know Clifford Irving. McGraw-Hill, Irving, and Life, which had bought serialization rights, were not fazed by the denials. For months the debate was front-page news, often eclipsing the Vietnam War. The manuscript was read by many reporters that had covered Hughes and came to the conclusion ...
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