All posts tagged "Boston"
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3.7KMassachusettsJFK One-Liners: Presidential Wit and More
President John F. Kennedy managed to seduce reporters with witty retorts to their questions during presidential news conferences. Many JFK one-liners are...
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2.8KUncategorizedSocialite Martha Codman Karolik, 70, Takes a Musical Husband, 35. It Goes Well.
Martha Codman in 1928 shocked and titillated East Coast high society when she married an immigrant Jewish opera singer, Maxim Karolik. She...
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1.9KConnecticutWhen Teddy Roosevelt Barnstormed New England
In the fall of 1902, President Teddy Roosevelt barnstormed New England on behalf of Republican congressmen. He wanted as many elected as...
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2.5KUncategorizedThe Business Plot, or When J.P. Morgan’s Pals Tried To Overthrow FDR
In 1934, Hitlerite paramilitary groups made headlines goose stepping their way around New York. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover got wind of...
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2.6KArts and LeisureZouaves and Contrabands: Winslow Homer’s Civil War
Before the Civil War broke out, a military fashion craze from North Africa took hold of the United States. Men, women and...
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7.0KCrime and ScandalThe Boston Irish Gang Wars Terrify a City
When a group of hoodlums decided to rent a cottage on Salisbury Beach for a Labor Day party in 1961, they set...
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