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- 621: Beware -- Witch Hunt In Sessio
- ... investigation as security risks since the beginning of 1947. Ninety-one persons in the shady category most of these were homosexuals. On April 19, a Times news story is headed: Perverts Called Government Peril Guy George Gabrielson, Republican National Chairman, asserted today that sexual perverts who have infiltrated our Government in recent years were perhaps as dangerous as the actual Communists. On May 5, the Times reports that New York State ... American way of life, thereby reducing our society to lawless, godless robots who either bowed down to a terroristic body of government or lost their life. To many Americans, the thought of this happening to Washington and Jefferson's country was justification for fighting the Red Menace by any means necessary, even if some of those methods resembled their communist counterparts. America was beginning an ill-fated crusade against anyone thought ... and Wherry Study Hears There are 3,500 Deviates in Government Agencies. The inquiry was proposed on the basis of a priority preliminary study made by Senators Lister Hill Kenneth S. Wherry during which a Washington police vice officer said is was his 'own judgment' that 3,500 perverts were employed in Government Agencies he thought 300 to 400 of these persons in the State Department." (Katz, 93) "On June ...
- 622: Bilingual Education
- ... duty to reach out to the citizens, people are suppose to be self reliant, we don’t want the Government to reach into our lives. That’s why we had that little revolution against King George. If you really need the Government’s assistance you should reach out to them, something that would be pretty hard if you don’t speak English. Fourth, it does not neglect the ability of merchants ... numerous times that English only laws do not violate the 1st amendment of our Constitution. I personally believe that in our nation there needs to be a main language, not 3 or 4 or 1200. George Washington wasn’t giving orders at Valley Forge in Russian he was speaking English. Abe Lincoln didn’t give the Gettysburgh Address in Portuguese. It’s not to much to ask for every American citizen ...
- 623: Public Education Vs. Home Scho
- ... 1962. Since then, SAT scores have plummeted, while teen pregnancies, suicides, alcoholism, drug abuse, violence, and illiteracy rates have increased dramatically. Many believe disciplinary problems begin before a child s introduction to public school. In Washington, D.C., the principal of one elementary school banned regular recess due to drugs and violence. The children played outside only within an enclosed eight-foot concrete barrier. At times, play was allowed on a ... ended the Korean War (instead of World War II), and that only 53,000, rather than 126,000, Americans were killed in World War I (Klicka 24-25). One book summarizes Abraham Lincoln's and George Washington's life in a mere six lines each. Textbooks also tend to focus on immoral values. Public school textbooks never mention marriage as the foundation of family, and yet these books are suppose to ...
- 624: Iran Contra Hidden Policy
- ... whose lust for power overrides their moral wisdom. The Constitution is “our defense against ourselves, the one foe who might defeat us.” Notes Bill Moyers, The Secret Government:The Constitution in Crisis. (Cabin John, MD:Washington DC, 1988) 18. Lawrence E. Walsh., Final Report of the Independent Counsel for Iran Contra Matters: Investigations and Prosecutions (Washington, DC 1993) 2. Peter Kornbluh and Malcolm Byrne, The Iran-Contra Scandal: The Declassified History (New York: The New Press, 1993 ) 380. Kornbluh and Byrne 385. Walsh 3. Walsh 12. Moyer 4. Moyer 105. William S. Cohen and George J. Mitchell, Men of Zeal: A Candid Inside Story of the Iran Contra Hearings (New York: Viking 1988) 105. Kornbluh and Byrne 4. Moyer 18-23. Kornbluh and Byrne 338-339. Kornbluh and Byrne ...
- 625: Women's Roles in the Revolution
- ... what British said a. while serving food/drink b. officers spoke freely 1. thought women were not interested 2. they were wrong 2. Lydia Darragh a. of Philidelphia b. carried important information 1. to General Washington 2. at Valley Forge E. After the war 1. Women continue to be interested in politics 2. Spoke of themselves as Republican Mothers 3. strengthening of a nation a. Marcy Otis Warren b. Abigail Adams ... Childhood B. Marriage III. The Declaration of Sentiments A. Elizabeth Cady Stanton B. Lucretia Mott C. Seneca Falls Convention D. 1920: women recieve full citizenship When people think of the Revolutionary War, mosth think of George Washington leading his men into battle, Minutemen fighting, or John Adams, Benjamin Franklin and John Hancock signing the Declaration of Independence. Event hough all of these things did happen, and were very important to the ...
- 626: Slavery
- ... was common all over the world until 1794 when France signed the Act of the National Convention abolishing slavery. It would take America about a hundred years to do the same (Slavery Two; Milton Meltzer). George Washington was America's hero. He was America's first president. He was a slave owner. He deplored slavery but did not release his slaves. His will stated that they would be released after the death of his wife (The Volume Library; 1988). Washington wasn't the only president to have slaves. Thomas Jefferson wrote, "All men are created equal" but died leaving his blacks in slavery. In 1775 black Americans were sent to fight in the revolutionary ...
- 627: Political Parties
- ... and the Congress over policy when each is in the control of a different party. s Historical background. Electoral politics in the United States has been dominated by two political parties since the administration of George Washington; but they have not always been the same two parties. The first opposition was between Federalists and Anti-Federalists--those who supported a strong federal government and those who did not. Leaders of the Federalists ... Democrats rebelled against the party's civil rights policy in 1948 and formed the States' Rights Democratic, or Dixiecrats, party with J. Strom Thurmond as their presidential candidate. In 1968 the American Independent party nominee, George C. Wallace, made a strong showing with more than 9 million popular and 46 electoral votes. John Anderson, a Republican member of Congress from Illinois, ran as an independent in the 1980 presidential election, ...
- 628: Alcatraz
- ... they would go to "The Rock" if they were even remotely bad. They shut it down, Oh God, they shut it down" (2) The prison ran effectively, yet due to cost effectiveness, administrative changes in Washington, a change in BOP's operating philosophy (reinstitution rehabilitation). USPAZ. closed on 21 March 1963 (last prisoners removed on this day); Alcatraz was transferred to the General Services Administration (GSA) in May of 1963. Alcatraz ... look, like they had nothing else to live for. I'll never forget happened there, my dreams won't let me." (4) Arriving on the second "official" shipment to Alcatraz in September of 1934 was George "Machine Gun" Kelly. Involved first in bootlegging, he was apprehended and sentenced to Leavenworth. At the conclusion of a three-year stay, Kelly emerged from prison in touch with some of America's best bank ... Vol. 1 of "In the life of Alcatraz" pages 1944- 46 3. Doctor William M. Hellem, Medical Physician on Alcataz Island, 1983, Vol. 1 of "In the life of Alcatraz" pages 132-134 4.Lutenient George R. Hendershaw, Guard that seved on Alcatraz Island,
- 629: Human Cloning -
- ... for many years and actually used to clone embryos of cattle and sheep. It is likely this has already been successfully used on human embryos in secret. Robert J. Stillman and his team at the George Washington Medical Center in Washington D.C. took 17 flawed human embryos, which had been derived from an ovum that had been fertilized by two sets of sperm resulting in an extra set of chromosomes, and dooming the ovum' ...
- 630: William McKinley
- ... he did not graduate. In 1867 he was admitted to the bar in Warren, Ohio. He moved to Canton, Ohio where two of his sisters were schoolteachers and he got a job working for Judge George Belden. Belden was so over-burdened with cases that he offered one to McKinley. McKinley won the case and so impressed the judge that he was paid $25.00 for the case and was given ... war on Spain. The U.S. blockaded the Spanish ships inside Santiago Harbor, Teddy Roosevelt and his Rough Riders stormed up San Juan Hill and took possession of the area, and in the Philippines, Commodore George Dewey sailed into Manila Bay and sunk all the Spanish ships there. The war last approximately 110 days and at the ensuing "Treaty of Paris," Puerto Rico and Guam became U.S. possessions and, for ... of what side effects it might have had on the president. The president’s body first went to the Buffalo City Hall to be viewed by the public for a couple of days, next to Washington D.C. for two days, and finally to Canton, Ohio on September 18th where he was buried at Westlawn Cemetery. He was the third president to be assassinated, the others were Lincoln and Garfield, ...
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