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...equipment, established 50 new public high schools. Gradually Mann's influence spread to other states through his famed annual reports. In 1830 only three states (Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire) supported free elementary schools. By 1848 when the Massachusetts Secretary was ready to give up his job to return to politics, the public school movement was awakening over the land and Horace Mann was a national figure...
...house disadvantaged Negroes but also to prove that it could be done on a sound business basis and thus to stimulate housing improvements in Harlem far beyond the scope of private philanthropy or public subsidy. He took a $2,000,000 mortgage on the Dunbar Apartments, receiving a 5% return on his investment. Fortnight ago Mr. Rockefeller started to foreclose his mortgage...
...Return...
...father's business, did his first political writing anonymously at the age of 26. Caught up in the great religious revival of the 1740's, he became an ardent Puritan and remained one until his death, living simply, denouncing all vices impartially, demanding a return to the sober ways of the founding fathers. He served as city scavenger and tax collector (acquiring a shortage on his books of ?7,000), married, fathered two children, was widowed and married again at the age of 42. Not until the Sons of Liberty grew strong...
...Return no more those thoughts of happiness...