Ulysses S. Grant (December 7, 1875) To the Senate and House of Representatives: In submitting my seventh annual message to Congress, in this centennial year of our national existence as a free and…
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William H. Taft (December 3, 1912) Jump to Part II | Part III To the Senate and House of Representatives: The foreign relations of the United States actually and potentially affect the state of the…
(Encyclopedia) closed shop and open shop. The term “closed shop” is used to signify an establishment employing only members of a labor union. The union shop, a closely allied term, indicates a…
(Encyclopedia) Mill Springs, village, on the Cumberland River, S of Frankfort, SE Ky.; site of the opening battle of the Kentucky-Tennessee campaign of the Civil War and the first important Union…
(Encyclopedia) Cushman, Pauline, 1835–93, Union spy in the Civil War, b. New Orleans. She became an actress at 18 in New York City. In 1863 she was banished to Confederate lines as a supposed…
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William H. Taft (December 7, 1909) The relations of the United States with all foreign governments have continued upon the normal basis of amity and good understanding, and are very generally…
(g hard), in Jewish mythology, is the angel of death to the favoured people of God, the prince of fire and thunder, and the only angel that can speak Syriac and Chaldee. The Mahometans…
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