John F. Kennedy John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on the 29th May 1917 in Brookline, Massachusetts to Joseph Patrick Kennedy and Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald. John F. Kennedy was often referred to as ‘JFK’ by his friends and family, and is commonly referred to as JFK today. JFK had three brothers and five sisters. In September 1941 whilst war was raging across the world, particularly in Europe, JFK was medically disqualified from the US Army for his chronic lower back problems, he then joined the Navy. Kennedy was working in the office of the secretary of the Navy when the attack on Pearl Harbour occurred.
Clarence Darrow • Born in Ohio; studied one year at Allegheny College, PA; studied law at University of Michigan for one year but leaves before graduating • Moves to Chicago; involved in appeal of the Haymarket martyrs; defense attorney for Industrial Workers of the World and for members of the American Communist Party • Opposes capital punishment D. Robert Crowe • Studied law at Yale University • 1916: elected judge on Circuit Court • 1919: elected chief justice of Cook County Criminal Court • 1920: elected state’s attorney of Cook County • Politically ambitious: desires to become next mayor of Chicago E. The Trial • Darrow prepares the defense by hiring psychiatrists to analyze Leopold and Loeb • Psychiatric report: o Leopold: bullied at school – lonely childhood Governess had sex with him at age 12 Slave-king fantasy Loeb: governess imposes strict discipline at early age; responds by lying to his governess Fantasy of being the perfect criminal • Darrow strategy: o cannot plead the defendants innocent: they have confessed in detail and have shown evidence of the crime to the
You have often heard the phrase “A picture is worth a thousand words.” If you look at the pictures during the Great Depression by Walker Evans you envision yourself in that time. Walker Evans was born in St. Louis Missouri in 1903. He grew up in Chicago and New York City. He attended the Loomis Institute and Mercerburg Academy and then graduated from Phillips Academy in Massachusetts in 1922. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walker_Evans) He spent a year in Paris and studied French literature then dropped out and returned to the US to NYC.
President: William McKinley Political Party: Republican Years as President: 4 Years Defeated Party: Benjamin Harrison Political Background: When the Civil War ended, McKinley returned to Ohio to begin his career in law and politics. He studied law at Albany Law School and, after passing the bar exam in 1867, began his legal practice in Canton, Ohio. At a Canton picnic in 1869—the year he entered politics—McKinley met and began courting his future wife, Ida Saxton, marrying her two years later. He was twenty-seven and she was twenty-three at the time. Although practicing law was his profession, being involved with the Republican organization secured his future.
Why did Bulow resign in 1909 Bernhard von Bülow was born in Germany in 1849 and was appointed Secretary of State in 1897 after holding several diplomatic posts. Three years later, on16th October 1900, he was promoted to the position of Chancellor by Kaiser Wilhelm II, replacing Caprivi who had held the post since 1890 and who in turn had replaced Bismarck. To answer why Bulow resigned, it is first necessary to look at events leading up to “The Daily Telegraph Affair” in 1908 and the rejection of his budget proposals within the Reichstag in 1909 but also, crucially to consider the personalities of the two men. Bülow had survived as Chancellor since 1900 by flattering the Kaiser and by generating popular support through the nationalistic policy of Weltpolitik. During his reign Bismarck had practiced a very restrained continental policy and not heeded calls to acquire colonies for the German Empire.
John Pierpont Morgan was born into a distinguished New England family on April 17, 1837, in Hartford, Connecticut. One of his maternal relatives, James Pierpont (1659-1714), was a founder of Yale University; his paternal grandfather was a founder of the AETNA Insurance Company; and his father, Junius Spencer Morgan (1813-90), ran a successful Hartford dry-goods company before becoming a partner in a London-based merchant BANKING firm. After graduating from high school in Boston in 1854, Pierpont, as he was known, studied in Europe, where he learned French and German,
“The Night Owls who called earlier must have been thinking about, uh, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit or some other book.” (page 222) The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit is a 1955 autobiographical novel by Sloan Wilson that deals with his experiences as an assistant director of the US National Citizen Commission for Public Schools. The book shares the experience of a man in the workforce, as opposed to Brown’s Sex and the Office, which focuses on the woman. 25. “To an eastern child, particularly a child who has always had an uncle on Wall Street and who has spent several hundred Saturdays first at F.A.O Schwartz and being fitted for shoes at Best’s and then waiting under the Biltmore clock and dancing to Lester Lanin, New York is just a city, albeit the city, a plausible place for people to live.” (page 231) F.A.O Schwartz is the oldest toy store in the United States which had a popular location in New York City on Fifth Avenue. The Biltmore Clock was a famous clock located in the lobby of the New York Biltmore Hotel.
Page 579 Clinton, Bill 1946- THE 1992 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CLINTON’S FIRST TERM CLINTON’S FOREIGN POLICY SCANDALS, CONTROVERSIES, AND IMPEACHMENT PUBLIC PERCEPTION OF CLINTON DURING HIS PRESIDENCY POSTPRESIDENCY ACTIVITIES BIBLIOGRAPHY Bill Clinton was the forty-second president of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001. He was born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946, in Hope, Arkansas. His father, William Jefferson Blythe Jr. (1918-1946), was a salesman who died in an auto accident before Clinton was born. When Bill Clinton was fourteen, he legally adopted the surname of his stepfather, Roger C. Clinton Sr. (1908-1967). While attending Georgetown University, Clinton interned with Senator J. William Fulbright
President Kennedy John Fitzgerald Kennedy became our 35th president in 1960. He was born in Masssachusetts and joined the Navy after the graduating from Hardvard. He started his political after getting out of the Navy in the mid fortys. He married Jacqueline Bouvier and had four children. He became out president shortly after and dealt with things like discrimination and nuclear threats to the U.S. Mr. Kennedy died at the age of 46.
I only did this because Alfred Smith, who was running against my cousin Theodore Roosevelt Jr. in the presidential race, asked me to. I gave nominating speeches for Smith at the 1924-1928 Democratic conventions. I was reelected two years later also. Tell us about some of your cabinet members that had the most influence on your presidential career. I appointed Frances Perkins as the Department of Labor because she had helped New York reform so well.