American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

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...

Conrad Nicholson Hilton (December 25, 1887-January 3, 1979) was founder of the Hilton Hotel chain. After having served in World War I, he was involved in the banking business, and his father's mercantile concerns. In 1919, he purchased his first hotel in Cisco, Texas, which began his world- impacting career. On May 7, 1952, Conrad Hilton gave an address, titled, A Battle for Peace: <OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN: WE PRAY that YOU save us from ourselves. The world that YOU have made for us, to live in peace, we have made into an armed camp. We live in fear of war...

Rupert Brooke (August 3, 1887-April 23, 1915) was an English poet known for writing verse with vivid beauty. A graduate of Cambridge University, he traveled in Germany, America, the South Seas and the Aegean Sea, before dying in World War I. His works include: Collect Poems; Lithuania-A Drama in One Act; 1914 and The Great Lover. In his poem Peace, Rupert Brooke wrote: <Now, God be thanked, Who has matched us with His hour, And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping.> 1887RB001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement....

Alfred Joyce Kilmer (December 6, 1886-July 30, 1918) was an American poet and journalist, whose famous poem, Trees, was first published in the Poetry magazine, 1913. He was educated at Rutgers College and Columbia University, and worked for the New York Times. His works include: Summer of Love, 1911; The Circus and Other Essays, 1916; Main Street and Other Poems, 1917; and Literature in the Making, 1917. He was killed in World War I by a German machine-gun nest along the Ourcq River in France. In 1913, in his most well-known poem, titled "Trees," Joyce Kilmer wrote: <I think that I...