Records of the Office of War Information, 1926 - 1951. Feature Stories, 1942 - 1945
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Tesla, Nikola, 1856-1943
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Nikola Tesla (b. July 10, 1856, Smiljan, Austrian Empire (modern-day Croatia)-d. January 7, 1943, New York, New York) was a Serbian-American inventor. electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist. Tesla was best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system. ...
Cantor, Eddie, 1892-1964
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Eddie Cantor was born Edward Israel Iskowitz on January 31, 1892 in New York City. He was orphaned at age of two and raised by his grandmother. Cantor was a vaudeville performer and singing waiter and appeared in Gus Edwards' Kid Kabaret, in Ziegfeld's Midnight Frolics in 1916 and star in successive Ziegfeld Follies, 1917-1919. He starred in two silent films, Kid Boots (1926) and Special Delivery (1927); had own radio show through the 1930s, and was the highest paid radio star by 1936. After a h...
Rogers, Edith Nourse, 1881-1960
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Edith Nourse Rogers (March 19, 1881 – September 10, 1960) was an American social welfare volunteer and politician who served in the United States Congress. She was the first woman elected to Congress from Massachusetts. Born in Saco, Maine, her parents' affluence allowed Edith Nourse to be privately tutored until she was fourteen. She then attended and graduated from Rogers Hall School, a private boarding school for girls in Lowell, Massachusetts, and Madame Julien's School, a finishing schoo...
Norton, Mary Teresa, 1875-1959
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Mary Teresa Norton (née Hopkins, March 7, 1875 – August 2, 1959) was an American Democratic Party politician who represented Jersey City and Bayonne in the United States House of Representatives from 1925 to 1951. Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, she attended parochial schools and Jersey City High School before graduating from Packard Business College, New York City in 1896. She worked as a secretary and stenographer until she married Robert Francis Norton in April 1909. As part of the healin...
