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- 1181: J.P. Morgan
- ... for the life of a businessman. He spent a number of years as a dry-goods merchant before moving to Boston and into the foreign trade business. Junius was invited to join the firm of George Peabody & Co. in 1854. In 1864 Junius took over the Peabody Company and changed the name to J.S. Morgan & Co. John Pierpont Morgan was born on April 17, 1837 in Hartford, Connecticut. He was ... strict records of his own finances. In 1857, Junius Morgan decided to broaden his son's experience by sending him to New York. The firm of Duncan, Sherman & Co. was the American representation of the George Peabody Company. He wrote to the company asking for a position for his son and advertising the fact that his son had "many admirable qualities for a worker" To the company, J.P brought an ...
- 1182: Helen Keller
- ... spread public awareness (Briggs 307). In 1929, the second volume of her autobiography, Midstream: My Later Life, was published. Helen continued to change the world during the 1930s. She began to urge the public in Washington for legislation for the blind. She was extremely successful and got the Pratt bill passed. The Pratt bill provided federal funded reading services for the blind. She also became the vice-president of the Royal ... a stroke in October of 1961 which caused her to remove herself from the outside world. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1964 but sent her family to accept the award in Washington. In 1968, Helen Keller died of arteriosclerotic heart disease in her home in Westport, Connecticut. Helen became known world-wide as "one of the most remarkable children in existence" by the end of 1887 (Notable ...
- 1183: Eleanor Roosevelt
- ... ran Eleanors household as if it were her own. She always made Eleanor feel in adequate. It wasnt until Franklin was elected to the New York State Senate and they moved away to Washington, that Eleanor was free of Saras interference and meddling. When Eleanor was in her thirties, she finally began to emerge as her own person due to particular events in her life. Moving away from her mother-in-law, being exposed to the political scene in Washington, finding out about her husbands affair with her social secretary, and Franklin contracting polio all forced her to come out into the public life. Although she was shy, she learned to make public appearances ...
- 1184: William Wells Brown
- ... and historian. According to who you talk to, his birth varies from 1814,1815, and 1816. Brown was born in Lexington Kentucky. His mother was a slave and his father is said to be one George Higgins, a white slaveholder. As a youth, Brown worked on steamships, but was later employed in a print-shop owned by Elijah P. Lovejoy, then editor of the St Louis Times. Working in this capacity ... the American Peace Society at the Peace Congress in Paris. Highly recommended by the American Anti-Slavery Society as an apostle of freedom, he was welcomed by famous Europeans such as Victor Hugo, James Haughton, George Thompson, and Richard Cobden. He remained abroad until 1854. During these years of his activity as a reformer, Brown found time also to study medicine. Like many of the physicians of his time, he did ...
- 1185: Richard Nixon
- ... in 1960, he lost by a narrow margin to John F. Kennedy. In 1968, he again won his party's nomination, and went on to defeat Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey and third-party candidate George C. Wallace. His accomplishments while in office included revenue sharing, the end of the draft, new anticrime laws, and a broad environmental program. As he had promised, he appointed Justices of conservative philosophy to the ... to end American involvement in Indochina. In 1974, his Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, negotiated disengagement agreements between Israel and its opponents, Egypt and Syria. In his 1972 bid for office, Nixon defeated Democratic candidate George McGovern by one of the widest margins on record. Within a few months, his administration was embattled over the so-called "Watergate" scandal, stemming from a break-in at the offices of the Democratic National ...
- 1186: Robert E. Lee 2
- ... strategy, and forced them to fight a defensive war in which the slowness of their manufacturing capacity and transportation facilities doomed them to defeat (McPherson 25). The Army of the Potomac, under the Union general George Gordon Meade, numbered about 85,000; the Confederate army, under General Robert E. Lee, numbered about 75,000 (Johnson 90). After the Battle of Chancellorsville on May 2 to 4, an important victory for the ... General Lee decided to mount an attack despite opposition from other confederate generals (Warner 203). The offensive did not begin until after noon. Groups from three Confederate divisions, including the division led by Major General George E, Pickett, totaling fewer than 15,000 men, took part in a memorable charge on Cemetery Ridge against a withering barrage of federal artillery and musket fire (Clark 130). The attack is known as Pickett ...
- 1187: Profiles Of Courage
- ... Representative for Mississippi. Lamar was opposed to free silver for his constituents. Free silver would later mathematically prove to put a damper on the economy. Since his constituents were poverty stricken, they supported free silver. George Norris was a member of the House. He was previously a diplomat to Germany. During the time that the US was about to enter World War I, Norris was opposed. He also filibustered against the Armed Ship Bill because he hated war. George failed in these efforts. Robert Taft was a Republican from Ohio. He tried and failed many times to become president. Taft's iron mind never let him give up though. As far as foriegn affair ...
- 1188: Mccarthyism
- ... unknown reasons, this sugar slipped past the rations, and the Department of Agriculture demanded that the rations for Allied Molasses be cut back. A $20,000 bribe assured to him by Russell Arundel, Pepsi's Washington lobbyist, inspired McCarthy to help end the sugar rationing six months before originally scheduled, thus nullifying the USDA's demands. Another early issue for Joe was housing. A friend of his named Harnischferger owned a ... new subject to put his name in the headlines and to use as a base for his reelection in 1952. He found his next subject one night in early 1950, at the Colony Restaurant in Washington, D. C. Among his dinner guests was Father Edmund A. Walsh. McCarthy talked with his guests for a while, before bringing up the subject of the need for an issue. The group discarded quite a ...
- 1189: Malcolm X 3
- ... s definition of an "African", as stated in the declaration, includes both whites and blacks not just "black Africans". It also shows his willingness for blacks and whites to work in harmony. The March on Washington took place on August 28, 1963. Malcolm didn't like the march refering to it as the "farce on Washington" (Myers 130) He thought it was altogether too peaceful and hated the fact that blacks had allowed whites to become leaders of the march. Malcolm's idea that the whites would take over was right ...
- 1190: Martin Luther King And Malcolm X Comparison
- ... leader that Malcolm followed, and also the view that Black is beautiful. .The beginning of Malcolm s problems with the Nation of Islam was whether or not to participate in the civil rights march on Washington in August 28, 1963. He wanted the Nation to because he thought it could be used to show that the Nation was proactive in trying to create change. Unfortunately, Elijah Muhammad forbade it.. All of ... in the civil rights movement attracted more followers towards Martin Luther king for example in 1963, 200,000 people, black and white, rich and poor, educated and non-educated , took part in a mass marching Washington to demand jobs and freedom. In 1957, seeking to build upon the success of the Montgomery boycott movement, King and other southern black ministers founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and king was elected ...
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