Words from each American president Compiled by David Johnson Note: Dates indicate term of office. Choose a president: George Washington John Adams Thomas Jefferson James Madison James…
The Question: Who was the first president to give a televised speech? My daughter answered FDR but her teacher says Truman. I have found several web sites,…
(Encyclopedia) Garfield, James Rudolph, 1865–1950, U.S. Secretary of the Interior (1907–9), b. Hiram, Ohio; son of President James A. Garfield. After being admitted to the Ohio bar in 1888, he became…
(Encyclopedia) Public Works Administration (PWA), in U.S. history, New Deal government agency established (1933) by the Congress as the Federal Administration of Public Works, pursuant to the…
(Encyclopedia) Quebec Conference, name of two meetings held in Quebec, Canada, in World War II. The first meeting (Aug., 1943) was attended by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt of the United States…
(Robert Brian Keith, Jr.)actorBorn: 11/14/1921Birthplace: Bayonne, New Jersey After appearing in silent films as a child actor and trying his hand at a stage career, Brian Keith made his film debut…
actorBorn: 12/27/1879Birthplace: Sandwich, Kent, England Tea-planter turned actor, Greenstreet's distinctive presence added weight to Warner Brothers films throughout the '40s. Often paired with…
(Encyclopedia) Progressive party, in U.S. history, the name of three political organizations, active, respectively, in the presidential elections of 1912, 1924, and 1948.
At Philadelphia in…