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  • control the Canal Zone for more than six decades. "The Canal would not have been built at all save for the action I took," Roosevelt wrote in 1913. Left: Excavating a ditch at the Culebra Cut in the Panama Canal zone. Photo National Archives 8 TEDDY
  • a theory of representation. Democracy always has to assume a theory of representation, and Congress is our quintessential representative body.' Seventeenth Amendment in 1913 [providin for the popular election of senators] was fatal to this very
  • in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, June 10, 1913. My father's name was Aaron and my mother Bessie Rubenstein. I have one brother named Darwin. I lived in Milwaukee until I was seventeen years old when I went to the University of Wisconsin. At the University of Wisconsin
  • Cohen, Wilbur J. (Wilbur Joseph), 1913-1987
  • lived in Camp County, the county seat of which is Pittsburg, Texas, I've been in this county all of my life . I was born in 1913, and I'm fifty-eight years of age now . M: Then you spent most of your lifetime right here in this area . BL
  • Freeman, Orville L. (Orville Lothrop), 1913-2003
  • were you born and when. B: I was born in Brooklyn, New York, in December 1913 and I was educated in the public schools in Brooklyn, and I have my undergraduate degree from Brooklyn College and a Master's degree from Columbia University. M: What
  • Talmadge, Herman E. (Herman Eugene), 1913-2002
  • for the Fort Worth Record-T: Fort Worth Record in 1906, I was 16 years old. M: 1906, right. And in 1912-1913 you came to Washington and worked for the Washington Post. You have been an editor and owner of newspapers. In 1917 you became the Washington
  • plant up there to generate the power F: and do the pumping. Did you know Secretary of the Interior (Stewart) Udall before he became Secretary? H: Yes, I had met him out in Arizona. time. I've known the Udall family a long I think in 1913 I bought
  • , and we moved back to Waco in 1913, I believe, and I've lived here ever since. I graduated from Baylor Law School in 1924 and like a lot of other would-be lawyers, I was running for office before I graduated, and was nominated in July, 1924
  • . Rasmussen, tell us a little bit first about yourself--where you're from and how you came to be the head of the Bureau [of Land Management]. R: I was born in southern Idaho in 1913. My father was a railroad engineer, and we moved from Glenns Ferry, Idaho
  • believes in leaving the House alone. The spittoons were there when he came to Congress in 1913 and they're still there and he was about the only one that used them. Well, in any event, we want to get on to the big thing of the Presidency. I was staunch
  • assembled her Committee for a More Beautiful Capital for the first time on February ll, 1965. She challenged her Committee to act, by quoting a British diplomat who said in 1913, "You have such a chance for building up a superb capital that it would
  • .. ....U...Uoa 1913,he _,.,__.. et •f' Put>ta an4 it.a ffil te luffe M4 1a a1Jl4 tJle .... 'ttho\a,;ht.4IOll'"1 1a, •mt• W. nal"t!nout.1' C.Ueg• addN•• • M Slt.t"lllao- YU'lni• 'by illU•ldaUCBt tM •Beu &urcen. • A DOCUMENT AR.Y of Historic
  • in 1913 and in 1914 (over protest of Dominican Government). US also supervised .. March 1924 elections near end of period of US occupation. e. H~iti. Presidential elections held August 1915 under US auspices. 6. · In ~ddition, there have been several
  • Freeman, Orville L. (Orville Lothrop), 1913-2003
  • -- my teacher, -_, co-worker, and ._. beloved friend .for many years -- described the kind of America of which he dreamed in his first speech to Congress, in 1913. He said: I I. . .. .. . The value of an educated citizenry to a nation cannot
  • background briefly, leaving out a number of things, I'm afraid. You were born in 1913 in Sacramento; bachelor's degree from Cal Tech in 1938. t,,: No, University of California. B: And a Ph.D.in '42. M: Yes, also Berkeley. B: And you taught
  • . Well, that began in 1913, which meant that Kearns as 2 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org
  • on the part of the business community . I personally felt it could be a very good idea ; in fact, when it started this way, we had a Department of Commerce and Labor beginning in 1903, and they did separate in 1913 . And I can well appreciate the advantages
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh (TAPE #1) December 12, 1968 M: To start off, Mr. Camp, I would like to know where you were born and when. C: Mr. McComb, I'm proud to tell you that I am a native Texan. I was born in Greenville, Texas, November 25, 1913