Records of the U.S. Information Agency. 1900 - 2003. Moving Images Relating to U.S. Domestic and International Activities . 1982 - 1999. A Date with Liberty
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Smith, Alfred Emanuel, 1873-1944
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Alfred Emanuel Smith (December 30, 1873 – October 4, 1944) was an American politician who served four terms as Governor of New York and was the Democratic Party's candidate for president in 1928. Smith was the foremost urban leader of the Efficiency Movement in the United States and was noted for achieving a wide range of reforms as governor in the 1920s. The son of an Irish-American mother and a Civil War veteran father, he was raised in the Lower East Side of Manhattan near the Brooklyn Bri...
Douglas, William O. (William Orville), 1898-1980
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Associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and professor of law. From the description of William O. Douglas papers, 1801-1980 (bulk 1923-1975). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71068743 William O. Douglas was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939. His nearly thirty-seven year tenure as a Supreme Court justice was the longest in the history of the court. From the guide to ...
Lovejoy, Elijah P. (Elijah Parish), 1802-1837
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Alton, Ill. newspaper editor and abolitionist, he was also an ordained Presbyterian minister and had edited the St. Louis Observer. He left St. Louis after several printing presses had been destroyed by pro-slavery mobs and came to Alton. There too, the pro-slavery faction destroyed his presses. In just such an attempt, a member of the mob shot Lovejoy and he died trying to save his press. From the description of Papers, 1835-1837. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat rec...
