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...Congress, Abe Lincoln proposed the famous "Spot Resolution," demanding that the Administration specify the exact spot on which Mexico had, in the words of Folk's war message, "shed American blood upon the American soil." Lincoln, like many other Americans, suspected that U.S. troops had provoked the incident inside Mexico. The war was particularly unpopular among U.S. intellectuals. Henry Thoreau spent a night in the Concord jail for refusing to pay his state poll tax. Next day, he returned to Walden Pond to write his famous essay on Civil Disobedience. Ralph Waldo Emerson warned that "the U.S. will conquer...
Peggy Rusk, like Peggy Cripps, brought as her dowry a famous name (but not much else; the Rusks are not wealthy). No hippie or swinger, the Rusks' brunette daughter is an attractive, serious-minded student of simple tastes who won a D.A.R. prize for academic and citizenship excellence in the ninth grade. Precisely because of her sobriety and wholesome appearance, almost any parents could visualize her as their own young daughter plunging into intermarriage. "This," Sociologist Gunnar Myrdal (An American Dilemma) said a few years ago, "is a kind of bug in the white man's brain-that...
...this action, however, affected just the private sector. For public employees, it remains true that strikes are illegal and that any attempt to strike can be fought with an injunction. In a famous 1946 case, a strike by John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers against coal mines then operated by the Government was smashed by a federal court order that eventually cost the union $700,000 in fines and Lewis himself $10,000. Nonetheless, work stoppages by Government employees are increasing phenomenally; there were 142 last year, more than three times the total of the year before...
...though Bellotto lived from 1720 to 1780, it was only this summer at a major exhibition of vedutisti in Venice that the Italian public at long last realized that Bellotto had been a painter of the first rank, worthy of being mentioned in the same breath with his more famous uncle, Canaletto...
Whose contents run chiefly to sex; It's famous for virgins And masculine urgin...