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Lend Lease Act Industrial Recovery Act
5,250 words... really prepared plans were ready to be implemented almost at once. Huge public buildings, great dams, and irrigation and flood-control projects are part of PWAs legacy. The most spectacular agency designed to promote general economic improvement was the National Recovery Administration (NRA), an organization set up (along with the PWA) by the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA), which was passed by Congress in June 1933. The NRA was designed to help business help itself. Unfair competiti...
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Workplace Drug Testing Reasonable Suspicion
5,120 wordsNOTE: This draft document represents a joint effort by the SAMHSA/CSAP Division of Workplace Programs and members of the SAMHSA Drug Testing Advisory Board (DTAB). It has not been reviewed by all members of the DTAB, by industry working groups, or by other Federal agencies. This draft document is the first release to a wider audience. It will serve as the basis for developing the guidelines for Federal Workplace Drug Testing Programs. All interested parties are invited to comment on the draft do...
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Australian Council Of Trade Unions
1,629 wordsResearch the history, structure and activities of the Australian Council of Trade Unions as Australias peak union body. How is this body responding to the issues of declining membership and other changes in the workplace which have occurred within the last 10 years?
Introduction The Australian Council of Trade Unions or ACTU is Australias dominant association and governing body of the trade union movement in Australia. It is the only peak council and national centre which represen...
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Roman Catholic Church Six Year Term
4,003 words... depredations of military occupation. General MacArthur discharged his promise to return to the Philippines on October 20, 1944. The landings on the island of Leyte were accomplished massively with an amphibious force of 700 vessels and 174, 000 army and navy servicemen. Through December 1944, the islands of Leyte and Mindoro were cleared of Japanese. On January 9, 1945 the Americans landed unopposed at the Lingayen Gulf on Luzon and closed on Manila. The Japanese fought desperately, street b...
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Effectiveness Of Abraham Lincoln And His Cabinet
632 wordsWith his Cabinet Abraham Lincoln is regarded by many historians as the greatest president ever to stand at America's helm. This reputation is extremely well deserved, as Lincoln was able to preserve the Union and gain victory in the civil war, despite his fighting an uphill battle against his own presidential cabinet. Had he not been struggling against this divided government, President Lincoln could have achieved victory with extreme efficiency and a minimum of wanton bloodshed (Angle 659). Aft...
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P E Real Estate
2,643 wordsAIRPORT: 5000 S. Collins St. 817 - 459 - 5990 or x 7907 A division of the Transportation Department; maintains the public airport grounds and facilities, including aircraft storage and office leasing. FAX 817 - 465 - 2809 Administration Administrative Office 817 - 465 - 7831 Airport Manager - Bob Porter x 5990 Assistant Airport Manager - Mark Rush x 7907 Intermediate Account Clerk -Darla Taylor x 7907 Operations Operations Office 817 - 465 - 2615 Operations Supervisor - Richard Stout x 7907 Anim...
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The Political Career Of Richard Nixon
1,911 words1. Nixon's Beginning in Politics 2. Emergence in National Politics A. The Hiss Case B. Nixon's Political Obituary C. Resurgence as a presidential candidate 3. The 37 th President A. Nixon's Appointment's B. Foreign Policy 1. Nixon's plans for Europe 2. Vietnam C. Domestic Policy 4. Nixon's Second Administration A. Reelection B. Watergate A few weeks after the United States entered World War II a young man named Richard Nixon went to Washington, D. C. In January 1942 he took a job with the Office...
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Cuban Missile Crisis Nikita Khrushchev
5,007 wordsCuban Missile Crisis Research Paper Overview The Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest the world ever came to nuclear war. The United States armed forces were at their highest state of readiness ever, and Soviet field commanders in Cuba were prepared to use battlefield nuclear weapons to defend the island if it was invaded. In 1962, the Soviet Union was desperately behind the United States in the arms race. Soviet missiles were only powerful enough to be launched against Europe but U. S. missiles...
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Japanese Americans Concentration Camps
2,341 wordsEXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 9066 The President EXECUTIVE ORDER AUTHORIZING THE SECRETARY OF WAR TO PRESCRIBE MILITARY AREAS WHEREAS the successful prosecution of the war requires every possible protection against espionage and against sabotage to national-defense material, national-defense premises, and national-defense utilities as defined in Section 4, Act of April 20, 1918, 40 Stat. 533, as amended by the Act of November 30, 1940, 54 Stat. 1220, and the Act of August 21, 1941, 55 Stat. 655 (U. S. C. ...
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Franklin Roosevelt Main Cause
664 wordsFranklin Roosevelt was 32 nd president of the US 1933 - 45, a Democrat. He served as governor of New York 1929 - 33. Becoming president during the Great Depression, he launched the New Deal economic and social reform program, which made him popular with the people. After the outbreak of World War II he introduced lend-lease for the supply of war materials and services to the Allies and drew up the Atlantic Charter of solidarity. Once the US had entered the war 1941, he spent much time in meeting...
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Bombs Were Dropped World War Ii
3,340 wordsHiroshima and Nagasaki: The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb In early August 1945 atomic bombs were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. These two bombs quickly yielded the surrender of Japan and the end of American involvement in World War II. By 1946 the two bombs caused the death of perhaps as many as 240, 000 Japanese citizens. The popular, or traditional, view that dominated the 1950 s and 60 set forth by President Harry Truman and Secretary of War Henry Stimson was that...
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Secretary Of State George Ryan
1,526 wordsGovernor George Ryan of Illinois is in trouble. He has been linked to a massive drivers license selling scandal that might eventually cause him to be impeached. In 1991, George Ryan became the Secretary of State, which puts all Illinois drivers license facilities under his control. Ryan has had a career crowded with achievements and a public service marked by openness and fairness, (Hanania). This scandal is the first real problem Ryan has had to face. This is the first blemish on his character ...
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House Of Commons Chancellor Of The Exchequer
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1,214 wordsAs shown in May and Zelikow? s The Kennedy Tapes, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was only able to deal effectively with the Cuban Missile Crisis because of the comprehensive advice and support provided by his chief councilmen. Three of these men stand out in particular; while JFK? s? Executive Committee? was filled with bright and analytical minds, the most confident, able, and important men were Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, and the President? s broth...
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Chief Justice Marshall Judicial Branch
1,876 wordsJohn Marshall: Father of the Modern Judiciary If George Washington is the father of our country, and James Madison the father of the Constitution, then few will deny that John Marshall is the father of our modern federal court system. It is surprising, then, that there are so few serious studies of the Chief Justices life. Every year there are a gross of biographies on Thomas Jefferson and his peers, but, until just recently, the last formal analysis of Marshall was in 1916. But the lack of lite...
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John Quincy Adams Secretary Of State
1,514 wordsJOHN QUINCY ADAMS John Quincy Adams was born in Braintree (Quincy), Massachusetts on July 11 th, 1767. His ancestry lineage was English. Adams? religion was Unitarian. His father, John Adams, was born in Braintree (Quincy), Massachusetts on October 19 th, 1735. He died in Quincy, Massachusetts on July 4 th, 1826. He had three major occupations. He was a lawyer, a statesman, and the President of the United States. His mother, Abigail Smith Adams, was born in Weymouth Massachusetts on November 11 ...
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Secretary Of State Declaration Of Independence
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Lot Of People Herbert Hoover
1,298 wordsMasterminds of the Hoover Da Imagine creating a dam 726 feet high and almost 1, 244 feet long. Critics said it couldnt be done that it was impossible. To many people it was a challenge of great magnitude. From Herbert Hoover the president of the United States in 1928, to a 69 year old guard, the Hoover dam was created. The only way to under stand the Hoover dam is to know its masterminds. During the early 1920 s when the legislation was thinking of authorizing a building of a dam on the Colorado...
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House Of Commons Chancellor Of The Exchequer
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Suffered Inevitable Discredit Destroy Artificial Privilege Jefferson
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