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(Encyclopedia) Commerce, United States Department of, federal executive department charged with promoting U.S. economic development and technological advancement. In Feb., 1903, the Congress established a Department...
(Encyclopedia) International Trade Commission, United States, independent agency of the U.S. government established in 1916 as the Tariff Commission; renamed International Trade Commission in 1975. It is charged wit...
(Encyclopedia) Clawson, city (2020 pop. 11,707),
Oakland co., SE Mich., a residential suburb between Pontiac and Detroit;
settled c.1833, inc. 1920.
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(Encyclopedia) city planning, process of planning for the improvement of urban centers in order to provide healthy and safe living conditions, efficient transport and communication, adequate public facilities, and a...
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Mississippi mĭsˌəsĭpˈē [key], one of the Deep South states of the United States. It is bordered by Alabama (E), the Gulf of Mexico (S), Arkansas and Louisiana, with most of that border fo...
(Encyclopedia) Berlin
bûrˌlĭnˈ, Ger.
bĕrlēnˈ
[key], city (2021 est. pop. 3,567,000), capital ...
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Michigan mĭshˈĭgən [key], upper midwestern state of the United States. It consists of two peninsulas thrusting into the Great Lakes and has borders with Ohio and Indiana (S), Wisconsin (W),...
(Encyclopedia) Broad, Eli, 1933-2021, American
financier and philanthropist, Bronx, N.Y., Michigan State College (BA,
1954). Broad was the son of poor Lithuania-Jewis...
(Encyclopedia) states' rights, in U.S. history, doctrine based on the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution, which states, “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to ...
(Encyclopedia) Bunche, Ralph Johnson bŭnch [key], 1904–71, U.S. government official and UN diplomat, b. Detroit, Ph.D., Harvard, 1934. He taught political science at Howard Univ. (1928–40). In government servic...