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- 841: Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- ... November-December 1943) and Québec (September 1944). Finally, at Yalta in the USSR (February 1945), Roosevelt, Churchill, and Joseph Stalin broached their plans for a postwar world. In the process, Roosevelt pressed for admission of China to the Allied councils as a major power, liberalization of international trade as a means of preventing future wars, and creation of a United Nations organization as a mechanism for preserving peace. He did not ...
- 842: Benjamin Franklin
- ... never dressed better than anyone else because he did not want his customers to feel that he was of a higher stature (373). It was not until his wife had purchased a silver spoon and china bowl, without his knowledge, that Franklin agreed to use his wealth in this way (382). She felt that he deserved this treatment after everything he had done for the community of Philadelphia. Though Franklin argued ...
- 843: Theodore Roosevelt
- ... Then in 1908 Japan and United States signed the Root- Takihara Agreement. The agreement said the two nations promised not to seek territorial gains in the Pacific and to honor the Open Door Policy in China. When the next election came up Roosevelt decided not to run for office. He felt he did all he could do for the country. He did not want to be re elected for another term ...
- 844: The Good Times of Clark Gable
- ... star opposite Claudette Colberte in the romantic comedy It Happened One Night (1934), the performance that won his only Academy Award. A string of successful roles followed in films as Call of the Wild (1935), China Seas (1935), Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), San Francisco (1936), Saratoga (1937) and Idiot’s Delight (1939). By the end of the 1930’s, he was the most popular actor in Hollywood and had been ...
- 845: The Presidency of Gerald Rudolph Ford
- ... integrity went far toward healing the wounds of Watergate. Inheriting a crippled economy ravaged by inflation and unemployment, Ford pursed cautious policies that achieved a partial recovery. He sought accommodations with the Soviet Union and China, and he helped preserve a tenuous Middle Eastern peace. But public desire for more vigorous leadership led to his defeat in the 1976 presidential election. During World War II, Ford served four years in the ...
- 846: Life of Charles Robert Darwin
- ... town doctor, and was both liked and respected by his patients. Charles’ mother Susannah Darwin was the daughter of Josiah Wedgwood. She had inherited good business sense from her father; his company , which made Wedgwood China is well known today. Since Charles was a boy, he was expected to be a doctor. It ran in the family. His father and grandfather were doctors, as well as his deceased uncle, for whom ...
- 847: Jim Morrison and Susan Sontag
- ... trips to the orient and her mother would go along with her father on the trips. When Susan was only six years old, her father died on one of his fur trading trips in the China. As a result of the death of her father and the absence of her mother Susan was often considered to be "a psychologically abandoned child" (Sontag). As Susan Sontag's life continued she became more ...
- 848: Cleopatra VII
- ... bun). Seventh, her maids would put on her three pounds made of gold earrings. Eighth, she would eat her breakfast. It would probably be fish, wine, quail eggs, pheasant, caviar, fruit, vegetables, and tea from China. Cleopatra was really spoiled. She was so spoiled that if she were walking down the streets of Alexandria with her bodyguards and maids and she saw something she liked , she would just take it. She ...
- 849: Should Eisenhower Be Praised for His Foreign Policies?
- ... only didn’t go through with his plans but he actually changed them completely. Truman was known for being soft on communism, however, he always stuck to his policies. When General MacArthur wanted to attack China, Truman refused to let him do so and, even after being accused of practicing appeasement, he stood his ground and fired MacArthur. Eisenhower, on the other hand, was not capable of standing his ground with ...
- 850: John Fitzgerald Kennedy and His Accomplishments in Office
- ... join the Peace Corps. Kennedy’s early presidency was also marked by tension in Southeast Asia. Kennedy’s main concern was with a Laos (a country bordered by communist nations like North and South Vietnam, China, and Cambodia). By the time of Kennedy’s inauguration a civil war was in progress in Laos. Kennedy’s actions on Laos were judged as a success, but it was really just a starting point ...
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