Born in New York City on October 11, 1884, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was "a shy, awkward child, starved for recognition and love," (The White House) daughter of Anna Hall and Elliot Roosevelt. ... Eleanor and her brothers moved with her grandmother Hall, who "had a house in New York City and one in the country." ... "One summer day" (Graves 22) while Eleanor was riding on a train to New York City, a "handsome young man" (Graves 22) approached her. ... FDR's mother gave them a house in New York City where she also had a home. ... She also taught history and government in a girl's scho...

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Roosevelt then moved to New York City, where he entered the Columbia University Law School in 1904. ... For the next three years he was a clerk in a prominent law firm in New York City, but the evidence is clear that he had little interest in law and little enthusiasm to be a lawyer. ... In 1910 he became a New York state senator and quickly made a name for himself when he opposed the corrupt Tammany Hall, an established political system running New York City at the time. ... Overcoming these struggles, he rose to become governor of New York. In 1922, FDR became governor of New York. ...

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There was only one building in the city under construction and all the major companies in the area were either under construction or going out of business. ... She read everything about flowers, took a course in floral design at New York's Botanical Gardens, and used her advertising and marketing background to peddle sumptuous floral arrangements and original designs. ... The difficult part about starting the Daily Blossom all those years ago was standing out in New York, a city with a reputation for having some of the best products and services you can find. ...

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When Billy Graham was small, Sunday was a lot like an old Scottish Sabbath, its highlights the five-mile drive by automobile to the small Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, which sang only Psalms, in Charlotte, a city then rated the most churchgoing in America(Pollock, 4). ... In New York 1957, 2.3 million people attended his sixteen-week crusade. His largest one-day crowd was on the lawn of Central Park in New York City where 250,000 people attended on September 22, 1991 (Garfield, 56). ...

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The record shows that a man identified as the appellant, distributed to the inhabitants of his predominantly Middle-Eastern New York City neighborhood, pamphlets stating "the American government is controlled by Zionist agents and is using it's arrogant power to murder believers around the world." ... The People Of New York, 268 US 652 This quote directly illustrates the court's opinion in this case. ...

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I told her I would come to Kansas City to thank the board and give my acceptance speech (181). ... My only opponent for the position was Al Moran, the executive director of Planned Parenthood New York City ( Wattleton, 174). ... He was ready to leave his accomplishments as a Social Worker in Ohio behind to follow me to New York (Wattleton, 178). ... I arrived in Kansas City and was greeted with open arms. ...

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It would be illogical for an official in Moscow to order a strike on New York City or Washington DC knowing that Moscow or Leningrad would be annihilated in just a matter of minutes. ... The 400,000 mile network connected a total of 237 cities with a population above 50,000 and principally served the country's most prominent industrial and defense areas. ...

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Lieberman was attending campaign events in New York and taping a TV interview with Bill O'Reilly of the FOX News Network, Gephardt cited a family obligation, and Kucinich said he wanted to take part in important votes in the House. ... The Former Texas Governor Bush told a Mexico City Newspaper to call him "Mexico's best friend across the border-. ... s four largest states: "California, the big enchilada, with 54 electoral votes, along with Texas, Florida and New York. ...

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Landing on the southern coast, near the small city of Daiquiri, the Rough Riders were one of the first units to come ashore. ... Iowa, Texas, Indiana and the New York also engaged and administered destruction to the Spanish ships. (Oregon, Brooklyn, Iowa, Texas, Indiana, and New York were all American Battle Ships.) ...

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This Act worked really well for a few decades, but then shocking news published by the New York Times, disrespected every American's freedom. ... This spying was under secret for four years, only known by Congress, the Executive Branch, and the New York Times. ... After the Boston Marathon, government has increased video cameras in many cities, and GPS data are used to provide locations in cellphones, as well as devices called "stingrays" which they stimulate the phone towers and have officers collecting data of users from selected regions. ...

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Wood opened up a summer art colony and school in Stone City, Iowa, in 1932 with some other artists named Edward Rowan and Adrian Dornbush. ... Wood named a short story called, Revolt Against the City, was lead by many lectures of Regionalism. ... Later on, Wood did not care much about the painting, so he then sold it for $600 to Gardner Cowles, through a New York gallery, Ferragil, in 1934 (Wood, para. 14). ...

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Wood opened up a summer art colony and school in Stone City, Iowa, in 1932 with some other artists named Edward Rowan and Adrian Dornbush. ... Wood named a short story called, Revolt Against the City, was lead by many lectures of Regionalism. ... Later on, Wood did not care much about the painting, so he then sold it for $600 to Gardner Cowles, through a New York gallery, Ferragil, in 1934 (Wood, para. 14). ...

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Within five years similar laws had been adopted in most of the plains and western states where the Progressive movement was strong, and by 1917 the direct primary had been adopted in all but a handful of states. (93) Most of the states that were slow to adopt the primary or did not use it consistently were eastern or midwestern states with relatively high levels of two-party competition and strong party organizations, such as New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Delaware, and Indiana. ... After Gore's service in Vietnam, al Gore returned home to Tennessee to attend Divinity School and ...

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It was not until 1848 that the movement for women's rights launched on a national level with a convention in Seneca Falls, New York, organized by abolitionists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. ...

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Unlike the two debates before it, the candidates would be in separate cities. In New York Kennedy would be in a studio, and in Los Angeles, Nixon would be in a studio. ... With three of the four debates over, both candidates were ready for their last encounter in New York on October 21, 1960. ...

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There were also those who championed urban reform, a prerequisite to general political reform, and demanded that corrupt political bosses in cities consolidate their power. Progressive mayors, like Tom Johnson of Cleveland, kept the cost down on utilities, opened parks and schools, and supported the reduction of city budgets, efficiency of employees, and nonpartisan, citywide elections. ...

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President Jackson hated the Bank of the United States. No bank in America had more power than it, and Jackson mistrusted monopolistic banking. The Bank of the U.S. controlled much of the nation's gold and silver. The President of the Bank was Nicholas Biddle. The war between Jackson and Biddle erupt...

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The Depression and The New Deal It was in the aftermath of World War I when Americans saw an incredible amount of prosperity. There came a shift in attitude from a more serious approach to life, to a pursuit of personal happiness. The economy was booming. Shopping centers began popping up. New ...

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However, with the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, on the World Trade Center in New York City and on the Pentagon in Washington D.C., Americans are taking a more in-depth look at our foreign policy. ...

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