All posts tagged "Franklin Roosevelt"
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3.4KBusiness and LaborThe Fuller Brush Man Gets His Foot in the Door
The Fuller Brush Man for decades roved American cities and towns with a smile, a sample case and a good pair of...
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7.6KMassachusettsA. Philip Randolph Leads Sleeping Car Porters Out of Slavery
Of the thousands of people who go in and out of Boston’s Back Bay commuter rail station every day, how many pass...
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4.6KConnecticutBridgeport Elects a Socialist Mayor Again and Again and Again
Bridgeport, Conn., elected for 24 years a socialist mayor named Jasper McLevy, beloved in the city despite his friendship with a notorious...
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6.8K1Massachusetts9 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Bobby Kennedy
Many viewed the death of Bobby Kennedy in 1968 as the loss of the last great leader. Assassins’ bullets had taken the...
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12.8K3Today's History Highlights ArchiveNeshobe Island, The Algonquin Round Table Summer Home in Vermont
During the 1920s and 1930s, rumors about the crazy doings on Neshobe Island flew through the resort hotels along Vermont’s Lake Bomoseen....
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32.3K14ConnecticutSix Oldest Libraries in New England
Identifying New England’s oldest libraries is no easy task. In the early days of European settlement, book collections took many different forms....
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