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- 1551: Theodore Roosdevelt
- ... Roosevelt became, at the time, the youngest (43 years) president in hist ory. The president saw himself as a man of the middle who would meditate the struggle between capital and labor. He said that business must be protected against itself and he tended to favor regulatory commissions that provided nonpartisan supervisi on by experts of business practices. As president he succeeded in getting additional authority over the railroads for the interstate commerce commission. He was also instrumental in the passage of the meat inspection act and the pure food and drug ...
- 1552: Herbert Hoover
- ... individual rights, Hoover conformed to the mainstream of progressive social thought in the early 20th century. As secretary of commerce Hoover was concerned with applying rational principles in order to end conflict between labor and business. But he was mostly preoccupied with trying to bring the benefits of cooperative action to business owners and farmers without destroying individual initiative. To this end his department encouraged firms to join together in trade associations and thereby develop and share vital information about costs of production and distribution and about ...
- 1553: Theodore Roosdevelt: 26th President of the United States (1901-1909)
- ... Roosevelt became, at the time, the youngest (43 years) president in hist ory. The president saw himself as a man of the middle who would meditate the struggle between capital and labor. He said that business must be protected against itself and he tended to favor regulatory commissions that provided nonpartisan supervisi on by experts of business practices. As president he succeeded in getting additional authority over the railroads for the interstate commerce commission. He was also instrumental in the passage of the meat inspection act and the pure food and drug ...
- 1554: Theodore Roosevelt: Twenty-Sixth President 1901-1909
- ... returned to New York in the summer of 1898 to run for governor. Though he won by fewer than 20,000 votes, Roosevelt became the best governor of New York up to that time. The business community didn't like Roosevelt's tax, regulatory, and other programs and tried to get him out of the state. He was encouraged to seek the office of Vice President with President McKinley in 1900 ... saw himself as the representative of all the people, farmers, laborers, and white collar workers, and for seven and one-half years he worked to balance their interests. He worked hardest, however, toward bringing big business under stronger regulation. Despite Roosevelt's past glorification of war, his foreign policy while president was prudent and realistic. Roosevelt's most disputed actions involved Panama. He had recognized a canal's importance to America ...
- 1555: Eli Whitney
- ... inventor of the cotton gin. He made his first violin when he was only 12. Eli started college when he was 23, in 1788. He left for Georgia and got his first look at cotton business. He graduated from Yale in 1792, and went to Savannah, Georgia to teach and study law. After he graduated he went south to tutor the children of a wealthy plantation owner. He taught school for ... throughout the South began to copy the invention.but the unwillingness of the planters to pay for its use and the ease with which the gin could be pirated put Whitney's company out of business by 1797. When Congress refused to renew the patent, which expired in 1807, Whitney concluded that 'an invention can be so valuable as to be worthless to the inventor.' He never patented his later inventions ...
- 1556: The Causes of the French Revolution
- ... burdened with huge amounts of taxation that were nearly impossible for them to pay. This is why the peasents were so angry at this time. This new growth lead to problems within the Ancien regime business expansion also. Plus the people saw prices steadily rising. This did not help the privileged classes whose incomes were fixed. But it helped the Bourgeoisie largely because they became wealthier and more powerful from this ... up the largest proportion of society in France compared to the rest of Europe. This helped them gain more attention and power. The more town life increased the more and more bourgeoisie profited from good business expansion. This also made the Bourgeoisie despise the current tax system as it meant using money to pay tax that they could be using to expand. They wanted a uniform tax system. The growth of ...
- 1557: Russia Crisis: Economical, Political, and Moral
- ... seem trifling. It is mystifying to many Russians that the West still supports Boris Yeltsin, seeing him as a brave and progressive liberal reformer, taking on the twin evils of reactionary communism and criminal mafia business tycoons. That is not how it is seen here. Mr Yeltsin's popularity is now so low that Russia's main public opinion polling organisation has stopped trying to measure it. It has fallen off ... put him back in the Kremlin. That is why they used their influence to destroy that group of young reformers who dominated Sergei Kiriyenko's government. They want a government that will protect their monopolistic business ventures from the chill winds of free and fair and regulated competition. The result is an economic system that reminds me more and more of the most corrupt regimes in Africa. The exploitation of immense ...
- 1558: The Situation In Kosovo
- ... a Russian envoy said that Yugoslavia’s president had accepted the idea of a UN - controlled “international presence” in Kosovo. I personally think that this is all nonsense and that the United States has no business in Kosovo, but since we are over there now, we may as well take care of business and not make this another waste of our time and money. That, however, is my own opinion. You may be wondering why I’m telling you all this. The main point that I would like ...
- 1559: Quebec's Quiet Revolution: What Is It? How Has It Changed Quebec's Society? How Has It Affected Confederation?
- ... the modernization of the entire school system. The Church used to own the schools of Quebec. Most of the teachers were Priests, Nuns and Brothers. They provided a good education but Quebec needed more in business and technology. Lesage wanted a government-run school system that would provide Quebec with people in engineering, science, business and commerce. With the new freedom of expression, lots of books, plays and music about French culture were all developed in Quebec. French contemporary playwrights were very famous during that time. However, not all was ...
- 1560: Quebec's Quiet revolution:
- ... the modernization of the entire school system. The Church used to own the schools of Quebec. Most of the teachers were Priests, Nuns and Brothers. They provided a good education but Quebec needed more in business and technology. Lesage wanted a government-run school system that would provide Quebec with people in engineering, science, business and commerce. With the new freedom of expression, lots of books, plays and music about French culture were all developed in Quebec. French contemporary playwrights were very famous during that time. However, not all was ...
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