The 1920's
.... was insane at the time of the crime. Commonwealth v. Sacco and Vanzetti, 255 Mass. 369, 151 N.E. 839 (1926). However, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts held that the Superior Court had no jurisdiction to grant a new trial because the motion was not timely. Both defendants were electrocuted in August, 1927
Two years later, Black Friday, October 24, 1929 signaled the end of one era and the beginning of another. The Great Depression had begun with the precipitous decline of the Dow-Jones averages for 65 stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange which listed the stock of about 1,200 companies then. Excessive credi .....
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World War I Propaganda
.... almost all of the newspapers said was that this was the war to end all wars. This led the American people to believe that this was for a good cause and it would be well worth the effort and losses.
Music and the motion pictures were used to not only entertain the American people but were also used to educate and help form their opinion. Motion pictures were used to unify the peoples opinion against the Germans and other enemies2. In a short film produced be the Committee of Public Information an American dressed up as a German Kaiser was showed trying to abduct an actress dressed up as the Statue of Liberty. Just the way .....
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The 1920s: An Era Of Transition And Tension
.... work environment. Therefore workers became even more productive, and new industries began emerging or expanding to great heights. Technology was increasing bringing the first radio commercial which was heard in 1920, and by 1929, 40% of the homes had radios. The Movie Industry boomed being able to build beautiful theatres. The love for the sporting events, and most popular was the automobile. During this time the stock market took off to unprecedented heights. Although the rich were getting richer much faster than the lower and middle classes they were all enjoying their improved standard of living. However, the farmers were not in .....
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State Constitutions In Colonial America
.... switched to a bicameral system of government, and it expressed the powers of the central government. As a result of this Each of the states also needed to write constitutions of their own.(Alderman, 109)
Each state has a constitution that sets forth the principles and framework of its government. Like the United states Constitution, each state constitution has a bill of rights.(World book, 347) A few states drew up constitutions before the United States Constitution was adopted, but only the one drawn up by Massachusetts is still in use today. (World book, 348)
The early state constitutions were somewhat vague. They on .....
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The Atomic Bomb And Japan
.... make good use of it against the Japanese."
War is an inherently immoral activity. But, it is generally accepted that any decision to minimize the loss of life in war is morally correct. The decision to drop "Little Boy" and "Fat Man" (the uranium and plutonium atomic bombs) saved countless lives. Truman estimated that there would be 250, 000 Allied losses if there was to be a Japanese invasion. Truman also estimated that somewhere between 500, 000 to 5 million Japanese would lose their lives in the case of an invasion. Whereas the atomic bomb was estimated to have killed 110, 000 which is much less than the possible 5 mill .....
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Watergate Scandal
.... the call while on patrol. Flashlights were noticed by a former F.B.I. agent. The F.B.I. agent named Alfred Baldwin calls and tells the police that there are lights on in the entire 8th floor of Watergate. So the three officers entered the building, surrounded the 8th floor partition, and in a few moments one intruder "Don't shoot-You've got us"! The intruders were then ordered up against a wall and the police notice that they had $1,300 of new money, each were consecutively marked $100 dollar bills. Yet the Democratic National Committee safe was not tampered with. The police also found a transmitter, walkie-talkies .....
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The Indians And Losing Their Homes
.... theory of a higher power and spirits. they believed the Indian mind to be split into two parts, the spiritual and the physical. The spiritual was concerned with only the essence of things. On the contrary, the physical allowed one to see only things that were evident, avert danger or hunting. Each Indian had these qualities and they were all pure. From birth on, each Indian was a good person, not labeled bad or thought to have an evil mind. The Sioux tribe believed that courage and bravery were weighed as well as the intelligent mind. Young Sioux boys were sent to spend a night in the wilderness to show that they were stron .....
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The New Deal
.... bad income distribution, bad banking, bad foreign trade, and over-expansion of credit the stock market crashed and the U.S. was heading to a depression. One of the first Acts to affect the economy was the Emergency Banking Relief Act. This act authorized the Federal Reserve Board to issue more currency. It prohibited a private hoarding of gold and exporting of gold. In Roosevelt’s second day of term he issued a four-day holiday for the banks. The Treasury Department was directed to reopen the banks if they were relatively sound. It took Congress seven hours to pass the Emergency Banking Relief Act. By closing the ban .....
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The Assassination Of John F Kennedy
.... investigation, as the Commission finds desirable. In less than one week they found that a 'lone nut' killed JKF.
At no time did the Warren Commission seem to consider the basic legal rights of Oswald - innocence until proven guilty, the right to legal representation, or the right to cross-examine witnesses and evidence against him. There is no way that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone assassin. Firstly the paraffin test of Oswald's hands and his right cheek conducted on November 23, 1963, has been positive for his hands but negative for his cheek. Generally, this is evidence in Oswald's favor, but the Commission asserted that the .....
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The Battle Of Salerno
.... division was sent to defend against the Allied landing at Salerno. Other Germans were to be deployed once their need became evident. The Germans had great military skills and were efficient.
Fighting along the beaches near Salerno was bitter and desperate. Americans held off the German counterattacks with assistance of nearby Allied warships and fighter planes based in Sicily. On September thirteenth, and again on the fourteenth, the Germans came very close to driving the Allied troops back into the sea. Allied reinforcements were poured into the narrow beach head by boat and more parachuted from airplanes.
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Black Students At Central High School In Little Rock, Arkansas
.... and parents were shouting obscenities, spitting on the black students, and beating them. When word spread of what Faubus was doing the Presbytery of Ouachita comprised of ministers and lay representatives of several Presbyterian churches in Arkansas started a “strong protest” against Faubus and stated: “We deplore his (Mr. Faubus’) disregard of the national law, his intrusion into the orderd processes of local school district and his incitement of racial tensions. We earnestly beseech him to announce immediately an intention to exercise executive leadership in obedience to the law of the land. Finally, we call upon .....
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Bombing In Oklahoma City
.... in tragedy? Officials deny these allegations, but evidence outlined here suggests they did know.
Carol Howe, an informant recruited by ATF agents in 1994, reported that al least two months before the Oklahoma City bombing, members of a white separatist group had been staking-out federal buildings in Oklahoma City and Tulsa, and that they had actually driven to the Murrah Building at least three times to photograph the site. In a letter delivered to the U.S. justice Dept. in Denver, Colorado, on April 6, 1995, an informant, who was granted immunity in September of 1994, gave information about a bombing conspiracy he overhear .....
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