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- 1061: Minimum Wage
- ... law the Fair Labor Standards Act, which established the national minimum wage at 25 cents an hour; it banned oppressive child labor and set the maximum workweek at 44 hours. Since then, Presidents Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Carter, Bush, and Clinton have signed minimum wage increases into law. When President Truman was in office, he signed the conference compromise bill, which about 1.5 million earners received wage increases of ... of the law. There were more then 1.5 million workers in lowest paid jobs in retail trade, services, and agriculture and were provided with no protection by the Fair Labor Standard Act. When President John F. Kennedy was in office, he signed a bill into law that raised the minimum wage from $1 an hour to $1.25 and hour, in 1961. From 1960 to 1969, the number of wage and ...
- 1062: Walt Whitmen
- John Bell Mrs. Taylor English 2 May 30, 2000 All Alone Walter Whitman was an American poet of the 1800’s. Walt was arguably one of America’s influential and innovative poets of his time. Whitman ... much close attention and been the center of so much discussion and controversy as Calamus” (Bliss 288). Whitman’s own saintlike, spiritual life shows as proof that the poems could not be unwholesome. “William Sloane Kennedy calls Calamus, “Whitman’s beautiful democratic poems of friendship” (Bliss 288). The purity, innocence, and spirituality of the Calamus concept cannot be missed. The idea in not original with Whitman. As he states, “ the Calamus ... or even have a good life. The poems in Calamus are some of the best poems that show Whitman’s true feeling of his friends and lovers. Many don’t even understand how Whitman felt. John Burroughs say, “Whitman is so hard to grasp, to put in a statement. One cannot get to the bottom of him, he is bottomed in Nature, in democracy, in science in personality” (Loving 1).
- 1063: Marilyn Monroe
- ... job with Harry Cohen, who paid me $125 per week for six months on one condition: I had to cut my hair and go blonde. Through Harry Cohen I met several more important people like John Huston, Joe Mankiewitz, Natasha Lytess, my lesbian drama coach, and Johnny Hyde, who fell in love with me soon after our first meeting. Johnny, in return for my 'love' got me a screen test for ... Unice Murray came to be my live in nurse, but she was just a friend of a friend and not a registered nurse. In 1962, the press started rumbling with talk about me and President Kennedy. Although we did have one sexual encounter, I would hardly call us lovers. In fact we only saw each other four times, the last being the immortalized birthday in Madison Square Gardens. That was all. I never had any relationship with Robert Kennedy, no matter what the press would like to believe. That same year, I moved into a beautiful new house, and Eunice came with me. Some people called her a witch, and she made me ...
- 1064: Kent State University: May 4th 1970, Monday Bloody Monday
- ... it on the fence near the Student Union in full view of a rank of guardsmen. Jeff Miller, was the fourth casualty of this conflict on domestic soil. Twelve hundred students filled the gymnasium at John F. Kennedy High School, for the memorial service in the young mans honor (Eszterhas, 233-257). "Who killed Jeff?" Theodore Sorenson asked at the service. " It was not only the guardsmen or the escalation of this nation ... background and common knowledge: At war with war. (1970, May 18). Time, p. 8-14. Gordon, William A., The Fourth of May: Killings and Coverups at Kent State. Buffalo, New York: Prometheus Books, 1990. Kifner, John. (1970, May 5). 4 Kent State students killed by troops. The New York Times, p.1. http://www.kent.edu/May4/welcome.html http://www.library.kent.edu/exhibits/4may95/names.html http://www. ...
- 1065: Important African American Figures
- ... Association for the Advancement of Colored People, earning its highest honor, the Spingarn Medal, in 1949. He participated in several civil rights demonstrations, including the 1963 March on Washington. That same year, U.S. President John F. Kennedy awarded him the Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award. Sojourner Truth, American abolitionist and advocate of women's rights, born into slavery in Hurley, Ulster County, New York, and originally named Isabella ... raise money for her missions into the South. She spoke at abolitionist meetings and at women's rights assemblies, often concealing her name for protection from slave hunters. Her forceful leadership led the white abolitionist John Brown to refer to her admiringly as "General" Tubman. She helped Brown plan his October 1859 raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, W. Va., and promised that many of the slaves she ...
- 1066: Marilyn Monroe
- ... for Marilyn began to be regularly flown in from her Los Angeles doctors. In January of 1961, Marilyn divorced Arthur Miller. Later in the same year she was reported to be having an affair with John F. Kennedy. She was also reported to have an affair with Bobby Kennedy, the Attorney General. Soon after in 1962, Marilyn began seeing Joe DiMaggio frequently during this time and had finally agreed to remarry him. The wedding date was set for August 8, 1962. Fox rehired ...
- 1067: Cuban Trade Sanctions And Effe
- ... S. Policy of applying economic pressure in Cuba originated soon after Fidel Castro came into power in 1959. The United States first imposed a full trade embargo on Cuba on February 3, 1962, after the Kennedy Administration became convinced that Castro was moving rapidly toward the establishment of a totalitarian regime in alliance with the Soviet Union. Castro had not only confiscated U.S. and other Cuban and foreign-owned properties ... for violent revolution throughout the Americas as part of his efforts to carry on the "continental struggle against the Yankees," which he considers to be his "true destiny." The embargo was formally begun by President, John F. Kennedy, and has been supported by all successive Presidents. The U.S. embargo has had a major impact on the Cuban economy involving trade, wages, and jobs; and in addition, it has affected many United ...
- 1068: The Supreme Court
- ... writ of certiorari. The Supreme Court has nine judges, which serve. These judges assess cases. These Justices hold their terms for life, “during good behavior” under Article III. The current Supreme Court Justices are Justice John Paul Stevens, appointed by Gerald Ford in 1975. Ronald Regan appointed Justice Sandra Day O’Conner to her term in 1981. Justice Antonia Scalia was appointed by Ronald Regan in 1986. Another Justice appointed by Ronald Regan is Anthony Kennedy in 1988. George Bush appointed Justice David Souter in 1990. Justice Clarence Thomas was appointed by George Bush in 1991. Bill Clinton appointed Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 1993. Bill Clinton also appointed Justice Stephen ... a.m. recently for the 1983 murder of a watchman abducted in Mississippi. Bryan's lawyer, Andrew Thomas, called the decision "monumental." Gov. Jeb Bush was surprised and disappointed with the decision Florida House Speaker John Thrasher said he found the court's decision "terribly frustrating.” This case is being heard by the Supreme Court and will be one, which will set a trend and a standard among the states ...
- 1069: Edgar Allen Poe
- ... home with her, and another family took his little sister Rosalie. Mrs. Allan would have liked to adopt Edgar, but her husband was unwilling to commit himself. At that time people thought acting was immoral. John Allan could not help regarding the little son of actor parents as a questionable person to inherit his name and the fortune he was busy accumulating. He was willing however, to support the child, and ... and his poem would have won the poetry prize except that the judges decided not to award both prizes to the same contestant. The prize money was not important, but one of the judges, novelist John P. Kennedy, took an interest in Poe and befriended him by helping him sell a story to the new Southern Literary Messenger of Richmond. Poe joined the editorial staff of the magazine and soon became its ...
- 1070: Comparitive Essay Between Gene
- ... huge advantages and set examples for the youth of today and years to come. The Sixties was a decade of social and political upheaval. In spite of all the turmoil, there were some positive results: John F. Kennedy's bold vision of a new frontier, and the breathtaking advances in space, helped bring about progress and prosperity. however, much was negative: student and anti-war protest movements, political assassinations, "They've shot Kennedy," 254 Michener and ghetto riots excited American people and resulted in lack of respect for authority and the law. ‘Flower Power' and ‘Love and Peace' were the beliefs of the Hippies, they achieved their ...
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