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- 2251: JFK: His Life and Legacy
- ... navy because of his back trouble and history of illness("JFK" 98). After months of training and conditioning, John reapplied and on September 19, John was accepted into the navy as a desk clerk in Washington. He was disgusted and applied for a transfer. In June 1941, Kennedy was sent to Naval Officers Training School at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois and then for additional training at the Motor Torpedo Boat ...
- 2252: Jesse Jackson: a Brief Biography
- ... students singing, "Hey hey, ho ho. Western civ has got to go!" Jesse Jackson boycotted the Academy Awards last year, because only on African-American was nominated. However no less of an authority than Denzel Washington, says that Jesse Jackson overreacted. "I didn't really think that there were any Oscar worthy African-American performances," said the actor in a recent interview. Jesse Jackson was standing next to Martin Luther King ...
- 2253: James Earl Jones: A Voice in the Crowd
- ... role with grueling roadwork and intellectual exploration he later compared to basic training in the Army (189). After six weeks of rehearsal, The Great White Hope opened on December 7 at the Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., for a seven week run with Ed Sherin directing. At the age of 37, Jones realized he was involved in a Asignificant theatre experience@ but was Acompletely unprepared for the critical praise, the ...
- 2254: James A. Garfield
- ... will settle the question whether the President is registering clerk of the Senate or the Executive of the United States." Garfield's presidential career came to an abrupt end on July 2, 1881, in a Washington railroad station when he was shot by Charles Guiteau, only four months into Garfield's presidency. For eighty days the president lay ill and performed only one official act, the signing of an extradiction paper ...
- 2255: Grover Cleveland
- ... four years and then barely lost the next election to Benjamin Harrison, even though he had the majority of the popular vote. In 1892, he was persuaded to seek office again and he returned to Washington as the twenty- fourth President in 1893 for four more years. This President, called "Uncle Jumbo" by his relatives, was a hard- working President. He liked to do much of the work himself instead of ...
- 2256: Welfare In The U.s.
- ... finding all the people who cheat the program and make them work to repay it. Bibliography 1. World Almanac and Book of Facts 1995 Published by: Funk & Wagnalls Corporation 2. World Almanac 1997 Published by: Washington Times Corporation 3. Welfare Pros and Cons, Jeffrey Belle Published by: Random House Books, 1992
- 2257: Who Can Stop Credit Card Abuse
- ... higher percentage of its charge volume from fraud than American Express and diners Club(Lewis, 1990). The solution on the federal level would be an abolishment of the government credit card system as suggested republican George W. Gekas (R-Pa)(Los Angeles Times, 1996, March 16). In spite of the tough measures taken by the banks and the credit card companies, losses due to fraud continued throughout the 70s. As the ...
- 2258: Ymca
- ... the nation, serving nearly 15 million men, women and children with programs designed to foster the four core values of caring, honesty, respect and responsibility. The YMCA was founded in London, England, in 1844 by George Williams along with other men. Their goal was to help young men like themselves find God. The first members were evangelical Protestants who prayed and studied the Bible as an alternative to vice. The first ...
- 2259: Law: Gideon Vs Wainright
- The framers formed this country with one sole document, the Constitution, which they wrote with great wisdom and foresight. This bountiful wisdom arose from the unjust treatment of King George to which the colonists were subject. Among these violations of the colonists' rights were inequitable trials that made a mockery of justice. As a result, a fair trial of the accused was a right given ...
- 2260: Francis Scott Fitzgerald
- ... Francis Scott Key, for whom he is named, and to Maryland aristocracy. His parents, Edward Fitzgerald of the Glen Mary Farm near Rockville, Maryland and Mary McQuillan of St. Paul wed February 13, 1890 in Washington, D.C. Fitzgerald' s maternal grandfather was a very successful wholesale merchant. His grandfather's early death and his father's inability to keep a job, forced the family to be extremely dependent on the ...
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