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- 2711: FDRs Influence As President
- ... and consumers/workers and to reduce unemployment. This act set codes of anti-trust laws and fair competition, as well as setting a new standard-- minimum wage. Section 7A of the law guaranteed collective bargaining rights to workers. NIRA also established the Public Works Administration (PWA), which supervised the building of roads and public buildings at a cost of $3.3 billion to Uncle Sam. A new idea came about in ...
- 2712: Ernest Hemmingway
- ... a small boy, as if he were a female baby doll and she dressed him accordingly. This arrangement was alright until Ernest got to the age when he wanted to be a "gun-toting Pawnee Bill". He began, at that time, to pull away from his mother, and never forgave her for his humiliation. The town of Oak Park, where Ernest grew up, was very old fashioned and quite religious. The ...
- 2713: Dwight D Eisenhower
- ... promoted “Atoms for Peace” and dealt with several crisis in Lebanon, Suez, Berlin, and Hungary in Foreign affairs. He helped make Alaska and Hawaii become states. Throughout his presidency he was very concerned with civil rights issues and the interstate highway system in domestic affairs. Between his two terms he suffered a heart attack in September 1955 in Denver, Colorado. He left the hospital after seven weeks and was reelected for ...
- 2714: Deng Xiaopeng
- ... Ren Blackstone E-mail: R.blackstone@home.com Deng Xiaopeng Deng Xiaopeng was a good leader for China though at times Deng hit some bumpy roads and was said to infringe some of the Chinese rights still Deng controlled China with order and efficiency. Deng raised China’s economy to national high all around. Deng also strengthened its political status up to that of a very powerful country. Though Deng did ...
- 2715: DOROTHY
- ... third girl (Etta Jones) in a song and dance act known as the "Dandridge Sisters" Hard times and the Great Depression forced them to move to Hollywood, where, at age16, "Dandridge Sisters" Dorothy danced with Bill "Bojangles" Robinson in "The Big Broadcast of 1936." The same year she sang at legendary Cotton Club in Harlem, where she first met Harold Nicholas, her future husband. Harold was the younger member of the ...
- 2716: Arthur Miller-BIO
- ... act. He knew what crowd he was appealing to and the approached the writing in the way that it could best be appreciated. That is why Arthur Miller is considered one of the greatest play rights in American history. Arthur Miller always addressed his drama to a whole people asking a basic question and demanding an answer. From the beginning though he presented his question as a subtle message that was ...
- 2717: Alexander Ghram Bell
- ... the sidelines as the Bell Telephone Company captured the spotlight. Feverishly working to develop their own telephone technology, Western Union employed two prominent inventors--Thomas A. Edison and Elisha Gray. Looking to protect its patent rights, the Bell Company sued Western Union and won. In the years that followed, the Bell Company (which would eventually become AT&T) would be forced to defend its patent in over 600 legal challenges. In ...
- 2718: Adolf Hitler
- ... with his masterful demagoguery. Jews were the principal targets of his diatribe. Among the 25 points were revoking the Versailles Treaty, confiscating war profits, expropriating land without compensation for use by the state, revoking civil rights for Jews, and expelling those Jews who had emigrated into Germany after the war began. The following day, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion were published in the local anti-Semitic newspaper. The false ...
- 2719: Surviving In The Market
- ... from nothing to $59.3 billion. In the past year, key executives, particularly Sam's favorites, have left behind Wal-Mart to pursue jobs elsewhere. The biggest shocker came at the end of March when Bill Fields, Glass's heir apparent, told his boss he was quitting to become CEO of Blockbuster Entertainment. Fields headed Wal-Mart's main operations and was the company's closest link to the glory days ...
- 2720: President Millard Fillmore
- ... helped to ensure the passage of its various bills, including the stringent fugitive slave law, which the President strove wholeheartedly to enforce. His first annual message on December 2, 1850 contained an affirmation of states’ rights. Aside from its stand on the Compromise, Fillmore’s administration was chiefly noteworthy for its interest in the nation’s economic development. Fillmore had earlier cooperated with Senator Stephen A. Douglas in arranging the first ...
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