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- 1051: The Biography of Husband E. Kimmel
- ... Purple Machine had been running with excellent success. The Purple machine was developed and used for cracking the Nazi codes. One such code alluded to an immanent attack by the Japanese on some pacific location. Washington received this information and neglected to inform Admiral Kimmel. The Saturday before, Washington Time, a final intercepted message was decoded and given to President F. D. Roosevelt. The president ordered a warning be sent to Kimmel the following day. His direct aide suggested that they wait until Monday ... words are directed to a more general audience of the average American household. The book is difficult to read without interest and concentration prevalent. Works Cited --- The Accused, Brownlow, Donald Grey, Vantage Press, New York-Washington-Hollywood, ©1968---
- 1052: Richard Henry Lee
- ... series of meetings and conferences to make sure that it was the right decision for the future of the United States and her people. We have all read and heard of famous names such as George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson who supported and signed the Constitution of the United States of America. We do not however usually hear of the names of those colonists who disliked the Constitution and did ...
- 1053: John Fitzgerald Kennedy and His Accomplishments in Office
- ... country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.” In the beginning of his presidency, John F. Kennedy and his staff brought many great changes to the White House and to Washington. Instead of letting his secretaries contact people for him, he would often dial calls himself, which surprised many who would pick up the phone to discover that the president was already on the line. On ... with Cuba. Plans were made to use a small group of Cubans, known as the Cuban Brigade, to invade it and overthrow Castro. The operation was to appear as if it had no association with Washington. Despite the skepticism of the previous plans made by Eisenhower and his staff, Kennedy approved the invasion. However, the invasion’s failure when the Cubans were captured at the Bay of Pigs resulted in a ... final year. In June he delivered an interesting foreign policy speech calling for an end to the Cold War. Both the U.S. and the Soviet Union agreed to establish a line between Moscow and Washington D.C. in which they could communicate in a time of crisis. In July an agreement was reached with the Soviet’s and Great Britain on a nuclear test-ban treaty, and the Alliance ...
- 1054: Clarence Thomas Supreme Court Justice
- ... Justice. The second Afro-American ever elected to hold the highest Judicial post in America. His story is one of uniqueness as well as perseverance, learned lessons of survival and hardships. In 1991 then President George W. Bush nominated Mr. Thomas for Supreme Court Justice after then Justice Thurgood Marshall retired. As a child Mr. Thomas says, “he could not dare dream of ever seeing the Supreme Court, not to mention ... and for “foot dragging” on the Voting Rights Act extension. As he received staunch support from some of the Republican Party, support from his own people began to fade (Civil Rights Movement). It took NAACP Washington Bureau director Althea T. L. Simmons to urge her fellow constituents to withdraw opposition for the post but on the other hand not support him either. The main concern with Thomas was had he forgotten ...
- 1055: JFK: The Death of a Conspiracy
- ... a waiting hearse, and transported to the airport. The body was then placed on board Air Force One, the presidential plane, where Mrs. Kennedy and the newly sworn in President, Lyndon Baines Johnson, departed for Washington D.C. While the body of the President was on its way to Washington, Bethesda Naval Hospital made preparations to receive it. The three doctors chosen to do the autopsy were Commander James Humes, M.D., director of labs at the Naval Medical School in Bethesda; Commander “J” Thorton ... a receipt for it. The contents included: bullet fragments, microscope slides, undeveloped film, x-rays, and the “preserved unsectioned brain of the President.” All the materials, except the brain, went to the National Archives in Washington D.C. The family wanted to inter the brain with the President's body (2799-800). Several days later, the President was laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. Pro-conspiracy ...
- 1056: Glenn Theodore Seaborg
- ... of Doctor of Laws from the University of Michigan, 1958; and University of Massachusetts, 1963; the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from Northern Michigan College, 1962; the degree of Doctor of Public Service from George Washington University, 1962; and the degree of Doctor of Public Administration from the University of Puget Sound, 1963. In 1942, Dr. Seaborg married Helen L. Griggs, then secretary to the late Dr. Ernest O. Lawrence (Nobel ...
- 1057: FACTORS Of SECOND LANGUAGE
- ... academic success for ESL students. Elizabeth, New Jersey: NJTESOL-BE, Inc. Collier, Virginia P and Ovando Carlos, J. (1985). Bilingual and ESL Classrooms. McGraw-Hill, Inc.. Center for Applied Linguistics, 1118 23rd Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20037 English Plus Information Clearinghouse, 227 Massachusetts Avenue, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20003 National Association for Bilingual Education, 1220 L Street, N.W., Suite 605, Washington, D.C. 200
- 1058: The Presidency of Gerald Rudolph Ford
- ... against the Soviet Union, and Colby had struggled with mixed results to handle public scrutiny of the scandal-plagued CIA. Ford appointed as replacements White House Chief of Staff Donald Rumsfeld to Defense and Ambassador George Bush to the CIA. President Ford made his only appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1975, choosing John Paul Stevens to serve as an associate justice. The only other major change came with ... his efforts to pull the country together after the Watergate scandals, the rebound of the economy after the recession, the maintenance of peace in the world, and his record of 27 years of public service Washington. Ford began the fall campaign as an underdog against a united Democratic party led by ex-governor Jimmy Carter of Georgia. Several developments made Ford’s task even more difficult. A campaign financing law limited ...
- 1059: Disposable Diapers
- ... successful execution of this marketing plan, a market share of 25 percent over a three-year period is more than possible. BUSINESS NOTESAssociations Association of Small Business Development Centers, 1050 17th St. NW, Suite 810, Washington, DC 20036; (202) 887-5599 Center for Entrepreneurial Management, Inc., 180 Varick Street, 17th Floor, New York, NY 10014; (212) 633-0060 National Small Business United, 1155 15th Street NW, Suite 710, Washington, DC 20005; (202) 293-8830 Small Business Network, 10451 Mill Run Circle, Owings Mills, MD 21117; (410) 581-1373 Small Business Service Bureau, 554 Main Street, P.O. Box 15014, Worcester, MA 01615-0014; (508 ... of Business Research, P.O. Box 6025, Morgantown, WV 26506-6025; (304) 293-5837 Marketing News, 250 South Wacker Drive, Suite 200, Chicago, IL 60606; (312) 993-9517 Nation's Business, 1615 H Street NW, Washington, DC 20062-2000; (202) 463-5650 MARKETING PLAN For a lot of entrepreneurs, the business plan is the only strategic planning tool they will use to document the strategies of their company. They'll ...
- 1060: 1984: Lack of Humanity
- ... range of emotions, the actions that result from them, and a person’s identity. If the government can control the humanity of its people, then the government is in complete control of its people. In George Orwell’s 1984, the government is just like that. The Inner Party (often referred to simply as the Party), the governing force in Oceania, hopes that by removing people’s humanity, it can control each ... earth. The citizens do not realize that there have been better circumstances; therefore, they think this is the best time in history. In essence, people are unaware of their plight, and they know no better. George Orwell’s 1984 shows how a human being can be stripped of its emotions, its freedom, and its identity if that human being allows a society like Oceania to rule him; therefore, anyone should never ... prisoner. The reason they use numbers in prison is to hinder people from individualism, fearing that they might get an idea to try and escape. This is the reason the citizens have numbers in 1984. George Orwell did it on purpose to show how the society of Oceania is much like a prison. Everybody has a number, does the same activities, eats the same food, wears the same uniform, and ...
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