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- 101: Pope John XXIII
- Pope John XXIII Pope John XXIII was born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli in Sotto il Monte, on November 25, 1881. He was educated in Bergamo and Rome and ordained a priest in 1904. During World War ... He was became pope on October 28, 1958, when he was 77. Although many people thought that due to his advanced age, he would do very little as pope, Pope John XXIII actually accomplished a lot during his papacy. Pope John XXIII’s greatest accomplishment was calling the Second Vatican Council, unfortunately he died before it had been completed. The ...
- 102: Cuban Missile Crisis 2
- During the administration of United States President John F. Kennedy, the Cold War reached its most dangerous state, and the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) came to the edge of nuclear war in what ...
- 103: Josephy P. Kennedy II
- Josephy P. Kennedy II United States Congressman Joseph P. Kennedy II is a Democratice representative from the State of Massachusetts. He represents the district formerly represented by Thomas "Tip" O'Neil, the former Speaker of the House of Representatives of ... degree from the University of Massachusetts in l976. He is married to the former Beth Kelly and is the father of two children. His father was the late Senator Robert Kennedy of New York and his uncle was the late President John F. Kennedy. Congressman Kennedy's political background includes a strong family history in public service. Upon his graduation, ...
- 104: Cinematography Everything You Need To Know
- ... photographic gun.^Edison became interested in the possibilities of motion photography after hearing Muybridge lecture in West Orange, N.J. Edison's motion picture experiments, under the direction of William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, began in 1888 with an attempt to record the photographs on wax cylinders similar to those used to make the original phonograph recordings. Dickson made a major breakthrough ... In 1918, America's two favorite stars, Charlie Chaplin and Mary PICKFORD, both signed contracts for over $1 million. Other familiar stars of the decade included comedians Fatty ARBUCKLE and John Bunny, cowboys William S. HART and Bronco Billy Anderson, matinee idols Rudolph VALENTINO and John Gilbert, and the alluring females Theda BARA and Clara BOW. Along with the stars came the first movie fan magazines; Photoplay published its inaugural issue in 1912. That same ...
- 105: Lyndon Johnson
- Lyndon Johnson Lyndon Johnson led the country for five years (1963-1968) after President John Fitzgerald Kennedy died of gunshot wounds on November 22, 1963. He formulated many policies and carried out many others that Kennedy could not finish. He faced many foreign problems as well, including the Vietnam War and the Cold War. How he dealt with foreign problems put him near last if ...
- 106: Labor Unions
- ... p.549). Continuing through the 1930’s and Franklin Roosevelt’s presidency, another act was passed in 1935 known as the National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act) after Senator Robert F. Wagner of New York (World, 1998). This law, like the previous ones, encourages and protects labor’s rights. When this act was passed it added ‘meat’ to the National LaGuardia ... Encyclopedia, 1996). In 1957, there was suspicion that there was something going on among our labor leaders (World, 1985). After an investigation was completed by a committed led by Senator John L. McClellan of Arkansas, they found that the officials of the Teamster Union took union funds for their own use and had also be linked to organized crime (World, 1985 ... of the union officers all by secret ballot and also must set a bill of rights for its members (Boone, 1996). This bill of rights was in response to Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts. Its main purpose was “guaranteed freedom of speech, control over union dues, and other rights” (World, 1998, p.13). In addition, all unions must report ...
- 107: Martin Luther King Jr.
- ... King delivered his first major speech calling for voting rights for blacks. (Jim Haskins, The Day Martin Luther King, Jr., Was Shot)" "In October 1961, eight months into his presidency, John F. Kennedy invited King to the White House. Their meeting had been a long time coming. King had wanted to talk about civil rights ever since the election, but the president ...
- 108: Richard Nixon's Presidency
- ... July 1959. As undisputed party leader at the end of Eisenhower's second term, Nixon easily won the presidential nomination in 1960. Against the articulate, wealthy, and politically well- connected John F. Kennedy, however, the Nixon edge in experience and prominence melted away. Kennedy won with a narrow popular-vote margin of 113,000 votes out of 68.8 million cast. Returning ...
- 109: American Identity
- ... 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 consequences of widespread discord among the American people, exemplified during the Civil War, once again confirmed the dire necessity for unity amongst the nation. In his 1961 Inaugural Address John F. Kennedy confronts the audience,"[u]nited there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. Divided there is little we can do-for we dare not ...
- 110: Affirmative Action - History
- ... Dictionary as " a policy or program for correcting the effects of discrimination in the employment or education of members of certain groups." The phrase "affirmative action" was coined by President John F. Kennedy in 1961 when he issued Executive Order 10925, initiating the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity. In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson issued Executive Order 11246. This order ...
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