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- 591: Legalizing Idustrial Hemp
- Legalizing Idustrial Hemp Legalization of Industrial Hemp "Make the most you can of the Indian Hemp seed and sow it everywhere." (from sigity@hotmail.com) ---George Washington, 1794. You can eat it, for it has great cooking versatility and even more nutritional value than soybean foods. Doctors use its oil to boost your immune system and fight heart problems. You can wear ... York: MacMillian Educational Company, 1982. Hemp for Victory. U.S. Department of Agriculture. 1942 Herner, Jack The Emperor Wears No Cloths: The Hesington, Robert. "It's a Hemp Year." Business Week 24 April 1943. Lower, George A. "Flax and Hemp: From the Seed to the Loom." Mechanical Engineering 26 February 1937. McKenny, M. Birds in the Garden and How to Attract Them. New York: Reynall and Hitchcock, 1939. Miller, Richard ...
- 592: Woodrow Wilson
- ... being a prescription for a life as a nonintellectual ditchdigger, this was part of the background of a man who became a professor at Princeton University and the author of a popularly acclaimed book on George Washington.When Professor Wilson was 39, he suffered a minor stroke that left him with weakness of the right arm and hand, sensory disturbances in the tips of several fingers, and an inability to write in ... But no matter--in 1910 Wilson was elected the governor of New Jersey. Being a university president is not the usual route to such an office (from being a zoology professor at the University of Washington, Dixie Lee Ray went on to become governor--but her stepping stones were positions as Nixon's chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission and Assistant Secretary of State, not the presidency of the university!). ...
- 593: Al Gore
- Al Gore U.S. Vice President. Born Albert Arnold Gore, Jr., on March 31, 1948, in Washington, DC. His father, Albert Gore, Sr., a congressmen from Tennessee, served in the House of Representatives. His mother, Pauline (La Fon) Gore, was one of the first women to graduate from Vanderbilt Law School. At once a Washington thoroughbred and a hometown Tennessean, Gore grew up accustomed to both environments. In the nation’s capital, Gore attended the exclusive St. Alban’s Episcopal School for Boys. In Tennessee, he worked on his family ... from the race in early March 2000, stating that he supports Gore and calling for unity within the Democratic Party. Gore emerged from the primaries to face a tough race against the likely Republican nominee, George W. Bush. Gore has been married to Mary Elizabeth Aitcheson, who he met at a school dance during his senior year of high school, since 1969. Known as “Tipper,” Mrs. Gore has been involved ...
- 594: Abraham Lincoln
- ... younger brother that died as an infant. The Lincoln family moved a lot, from Kentucky to Indiana, and back to Kentucky. Abe read a book titled Mason Locke Weems's Life and Memorable Actions of George Washington, this book mad a lasting impression on him that persuaded him throughout his life. By the time he was nineteen Abe reached his full grown height of six feet four inches. He held small jobs ... Although Lincoln's speech was short, it was definitely a masterpiece. On April 14, 1865, a man by the name of John Wilkes Booth planned to assassinate Lincoln. Abe was at Ford's theater in Washington watching Our American Cousin. Booth made his way to the box where Abe was seated, around ten thirty p.m. He put a pistol to Lincoln's head a fired once, Abe's body ...
- 595: Bill of Rights
- ... the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. ESTABLISHING RELIGION: While campaigning for his first term, George Bush said "I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots." Bush has not retracted, commented on, or clarified this statement, in spite of requests to do ... honest Census answers. According to the General Accounting Office, one of the most frequent ways city governments use census information is to detect illegal two-family dwellings. This has happened in Montgomery County, Maryland; Pullman, Washington; and Long Island, New York. The August 8, 1989, Wall Street Journal reports this and other ways Census answers have been used against the answerers. COMPELLED TO BE A WITNESS AGAINST HIMSELF: Drug tests are ... for his defence. THE RIGHT TO A SPEEDY AND PUBLIC TRIAL: Surprisingly, the right to a public trial is under attack. When Marion Barry was being tried, the prosecution attempted to bar Louis Farrakhan and George Stallings from the gallery. This request was based on an allegation that they would send silent and "impermissible messages" to the jurors. The judge initially granted this request. One might argue that the whole ...
- 596: William Penn And The Quakers
- ... in the king's court because he was trusted by the Duke of York, later King James II. The origins of the Society of Friends lie in the intense religious ferment of 17th century England. George Fox, the son of a Leicestershire weaver, is credited with founding it in 1647, though there was no definite organization before 1668. The Society's rejections of rituals and oaths, its opposition to war, and ... and conclusive colonial war, the French and Indian War (1754-1763). French forts at Erie (Fort Presque Isle), Waterford (Fort LeBoeuf), Pittsburgh (Fort Duquesne) and Franklin (Fort Machault) threatened all the middle colonies. In 1753, Washington failed to persuade the French to leave. In the ensuing war, Gen. Braddock's British and colonial army was slaughtered on the Monongahela in 1755, but Gen. John Forbes recaptured the site of Pittsburgh in ... the second largest Catholic population among the colonies. The Scotch brought Presbyterianism; its first congregation was organized in Philadelphia in 1698. Scotch-Irish immigrants swelled its numbers. Methodism began late in the colonial period. St. George's Church, built in Philadelphia in 1769, is the oldest Methodist building in America. There was a significant Jewish population in colonial Pennsylvania. Its Mikveh Israel Congregation was established in Philadelphia in 1740. Pennsylvania ...
- 597: American Identity
- ... The consistent flow of immigrants who arrived on the shores of the United States yet again challenged politicians to adapt a policy of unification. Arthur Schlesinger remarks in his essay, "The Cult of Ethnicity, President George Washington told Vice President John Adams, immigrants will 'get assimilated to our customs, measures and laws: in a word, soon become one people " (129). Schlesinger implies that wholeness in the American culture proves beneficial to the ... seriousness of implementing these values into future generations persists. Every American that believes in the ideals this country was founded on has to agree that without unity chaos arises; without patriotism anarchy prevails. In essence, Washington's "ones" combined with effective loyalty produce a globally recognizable identity, that of the American.
- 598: The Roswell Incident
- ... he did want the debris to be cleaned up by someone. People he talked to suggested "that the debris was from a classified military experimental project" so Brazel took it to the Chaves County sheriff George A. Wilcox (Randle 28). The sheriff called Major Jesse A. Marcel and he immediately drove out to the sheriff's office and questioned Brazel. Marcel came out to Brazel's ranch with Captain Sheridan Cavitt ... almost three-fourths of the population thinks that their government is deceiving them. Today, Generation X is considered to be the most skeptical generation of all. Gen-Xers were described as viewing the government in Washington as dysfunctional: While problems such as the national debt were inherently solvable, politicians were too busy fighting among themselves to take positive action. Government, in the minds f gen-Xers, was not responsive to the ... large part of society has turned into cynical people who are suspicious of anything that the government says or does. Nowadays, many people are second guessing the government, which has resulted in numerous protests in Washington among other places. If the government had not changed their story so many times after the Roswell crash, society might not be as skeptical as they are today. Everything was covered up and kept ...
- 599: Immigration and Its Effect on the Economy of the U.S
- ... Malgre Lui." The Journal of Economic Literature 19, no. 4 (December 1990): 1708-1715. Becker, Gary S. "An Open Door for Immigrants--the Auction." The Wall Street Journal, 14 October 1992, p. A-14. Borjas, George J. "The Economics of Immigration." The Journal of Economic Literature 23, no. 4 (December 1994): 1667-1717. Borjas, George J., and Stephen J. Trejo. "Immigrant Participation in the Welfare System." Industrial and Labor Relations Review 44, no. 2 (January 1991): 195-211. Bouvier, Leon. Peaceful Invasions: Immigration and Changing America. Washington, D.C.: Center for Immigration Studies, 1991. Briggs, Vernon M., Jr. "Non-Immigrant Labor Policy in the United States. " Journal of Economic Issues 17, no. 3 (September 1983): 609-630.
- 600: McCarthyism
- ... slipped past the rations, and the Department of Agriculture demanded that the rations for Allied Molasses be cut back. By means of a handy $20,000 being slipped to him by Russell Arundel, Pepsi's Washington lobbyist, McCarthy was inspired to help end the sugar rationing six months before originally scheduled, thus nullifying the USDA's demands. Another early issue for McCarty was housing. A friend of his named Harnischferger owned ... to put his name in the headlines and to use as a base for his reelection in 1952. He found his next subject at the night of January 7, 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 ... business and votes. It was not just the high-ranking politicians that praised the committee’s actions; "friendly" movie stars were tripping over one another to commend the committee. Among these actors were Ronald Regan, George Murphy, Robert Montgomery, and Adolph Menjou. They "donned the mantle of the anti Communist warriors". Some people went to great lengths to make the committee happy. There wasn’t much that the "friendly" actors ...
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