American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Arnold Joseph Toynbee (April 14, 1889-October 2, 1975) was a British historian. He studied at Winchester College and Balliol College, Oxford University, becoming a fellow at Balliol in ancient history. During World War I, he worked for the British government, 1915; the Political Intelligence Department of the Foreign Office, 1919; and was a member of the Middle Eastern Section of the British delegation to the Paris Peace Conference. He was appointed Koraes Professor of Byzantine and modern Greek languages, literature, and history at the University of London, 1919; research director on international history, 1925; and director of studies at the Royal...

United States Supreme Court (1889) stated in the case of Davis v. Beason, 133 U.S. 333, 341-343, 348 (1890), that the U.S. considers bigamy and polygamy as crimes. The State of Idaho also declared bigamy and polygamy illegal, and declared that anyone who commits it, teaches it or even encourages it, is forbidden from voting or holding office in that Territory. A man named Samuel Davis was caught in the crime, fined and jailed. He argued that he was being imprisoned for his religious belief and that he should have the freedom to commit bigamy and polygamy under the First Amendment....

David Lawrence (December 25, 1888-February 11, 1973) was one of the most important American journalists of the 20th century. Born in Philadelphia and raised in Buffalo, David Lawrence entered Princeton University and began working as a correspondent for Associated Press (AP). David Lawrence joined the Washington, D.C. Press corps and in 1912, covered Woodrow Wilson's Presidential campaign. In 1913, he became a White House correspondent and helped found the White House Correspondent's Association. Wilson is known to have sought Lawrence's advice on U.S.-Mexico relations. In 1915, joined the New York Evening Post, where he covered the Versailles Peace Conference after World...

Irving Berlin (May 11, 1888-September 22, 1989) was a Russian-born American songwriter. The son of a rabbi, he was four-years old when he came with his family to New York. He served as a U.S. infantry sergeant during World War I. His works include: Remember; Always; Alexander's Ragtime Band; There's No Business Like Show Business, Easter Parade; and White Christmas. In 1945, President Harry S. Truman awarded him the Medal of Merit for: <Extraordinary service as creator and producer of the musical revue, This Is the Army.> 1888IB001 In 1954, President Eisenhower signed a Congressional bill awarding Berlin a Congressional Gold...

John Foster Dulles (February 25, 1888-May 24, 1959) was the U.S. Secretary of State, 1953-59, during the Eisenhower administration, where he helped negotiate the Peace Treaty with Japan after World War II, 1950-51. A graduate of Princeton University and George Washington University, he served as an international attorney with the law firm of Sullivan and Cromwell in New York, 1911-49. He was instrumental in the creation of the United Nations, to which he was the U.S. ambassador, 1945-49, and was an interim U.S. Senator, 1949. On March 30, 1954, in an address to the Overseas Press Club in New York, Secretary...