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- 1081: Important Presidential Electio
- ... received a B.S. degree from Southwest Texas State Teachers College in San Marcos. He then taught for a year in Houston before going to Washington in 1931 as secretary to a Democratic Texas congressman, Richard M. Kleberg. In 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected President. Johnson greatly admired the president, who named him, at age 27, to head the National Youth Administration in Texas. In 1937, Johnson sought and won ...
- 1082: Vietnam
- ... The Marines lived dirty lived in the Jungles of Vietnam. One of the best things about The War In I Corps was its great descriptions of the things the Marines had to go through. As Richard A. Guidry put it : In a driving rain, laden with heavy packs, our platoon lumbered toward its place in the long line of men sprawled in the thick sticky mud.... The rain added a slimy ...
- 1083: Reconstruction
- ... Civil War. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1994. McPherson, James M. The Struggle for Equality. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1964. Davis, Burke. The Long Surrender. New York: Random House, 1985. Murphy, Richard W. The Nation Reunited. Alexandria, VA: Time Life Books, 1987. DuBois, W.E.B. Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880. New York: Atheneum,1992. Smith, Page. Trial By Fire. New York: McGraw-Hill Company, 1982 ...
- 1084: Muckrakers
- ... of the visions of better things which reformers brought forth, and partly because of horrid personal experiences, began to regard big business as an enemy rather than a friend (Reiger 194-196). Works Cited Hofstadter, Richard. The Age of Reform. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972. Josephson, Matthew. The Robber Barons. San Diego: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1962. Reiger, C. C. The Era of the Muckrakers. Massachusetts: Peter Smith, 1957. Sinclair, Upton ...
- 1085: Jimi Hendrix Report
- ... choice was to do what he loved; play the guitar. Jimi began to write music and play local gigs. Before he knew it he was opening for King Curtis, The Isley Brothers, and even Little Richard. Hendrix's big break occurred when he was playing at a club in Greenwhich Village called Cafι Wha. At this New York club was a young record producer, and lead bassist of the Animals that ...
- 1086: Deng Xiaoping
- ... young Deng in France in the 1920s, eventually rose to the rank of Premier, which he held until his death in 1976. Bibliography Books Deng, Maomao. Deng Xiaoping: My Father. Beijing: BasicBooks, 1995 Evans, Richard. Deng Xiaoping and the making of Modern China. New York: Penguin, 1994. Falkenheim, Victor C. Chinese Politics from Mao to Deng. New York: Paragon House, 1989. . Franz, Uli. Deng Xiaoping. Translated by Tom Artin. Orlando ...
- 1087: 8th Amendment
- ... excessive bails and fines, and unnecessary physical chastisement in schools. However, whether a sentence is cruel and unusual or a fine is excessive continually remains to be determined by the Supreme Court. Works Cited Bernstein, Richard, and Jerome Agel. Amending America. New York: Random House, Inc, 1993. Comptons Interactive Encyclopedia. New York: Comptons NewMedia, Inc., 1995. Draper, Thomas. Human Rights. New York: The H. W. Wilson Company, 1982. Garraty ...
- 1088: Medieval Chivalry
- ... like everything else, had its flaws, it was an integral part of the development of society beginning from the early twelfth century. Chivalry has developed over the years and still exists today. Works Cited Barber, Richard. The Knight and Chivalry. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1970. Boutlon, Jonathan Dacre. The Knights of the Crown. Great Britain: The Boydell Press, 1987. Cabell, James Branch. Chivalry. New York and London: 1909. Davis ...
- 1089: Terrorism As An International
- ... operation . It had expanded beyond the realm of possible secrecy. The operation, although well thought out, had reached the apex for number of people in the operation. The flak was given to Kennedy and to Richard M. Bissell Jr., who was the Deputy Director. Bissell was asked to resign from his post in the CIA following the mission. He contends that the operation still could have succeeded even at its size ...
- 1090: Silent Nightmare
- ... April 30 Tribune:" If it's true that more than 2,000 people are already dead, I predict that within a month there will be more than 10,000 deaths from radiation exposure," said Dr. Richard Gardner, at Rush-Presbyterian-St Luke's Hospital. The Doctor's statement was presented under the headline:"Thousands of deaths predicted."(9). Another painfully clever headline "Radiation cloud may eat away Soviet breadbasket" appeared on ...
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