Pat BuchananRabble rouser for the Reform party by Beth Rowen Buchanan speaks with steel workers in Weirton, West Virginia.This article was posted on September 29, 1999.Born to fight Since he…
writerBorn: 11/2/1911 Birthplace: Pangasinan, Philippines One of the earliest and most influential of Asian American writers, Bulosan emigrated from the Philippines in 1931. In the U.S., he worked…
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CHADWICK, E. Wallace, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Vincennes, Knox County, Ind., January 17, 1884; moved with his parents to Chester, Delaware County, Pa., in 1890; was…
(Encyclopedia) Lew, Jack (Jacob Joseph Lew), 1955–, American government official, b. New York City, grad. Harvard (1978), Georgetown Univ. Law School (1983). A Democrat, he first worked politics at…
(Encyclopedia) Taylor, Telford, 1908–98, U.S. government official and lawyer, b. Schenectady, N.Y. He is best known as the chief prosecutor (1946–49) at the war crimes trials of Nazi leaders in…
(Encyclopedia) McCloy, John Jay, 1895–1989, U.S. government official, b. Philadelphia. A lawyer, he gained an international reputation when after a long investigation he fixed responsibility on the…
(Encyclopedia) Abramoff scandal, in U.S. history, political corruption scandal resulting from criminal conduct on the part of lobbyist Jack Abramoff (1959–) and his associates. Abramoff was a…
