What was Franklin Roosevelt’s rank during World War I?
During World War I (1917-18), Franklin Roosevelt was the assistant secretary of the Navy.
The first labor strike in the United States took place in 1776, in New York, when members of the Journeymen Printers Union struck against their local shops.
The Irving Berlin song “God Bless America” (1918) appeared 24 years before “White Christmas” (1942). “God Bless America” was written for, but discarded from, the Broadway musical, Yip, Yip, Yaphank. “White Christmas” made its introduction in the 1942 film musical Holiday Inn, starring Fred Astaire and Bing Crosby. Irving Berlin wrote the 1918 song “Oh,…
Henry Ford found the Ford Motor Company in 1903 in Detroit, Michigan.
In his February 9, 1950, speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, Senator Joseph McCarthy brandished a list which he said contained the names of 205 communists, though the number fluctuated over time. For the next few years, McCarthy investigated State Department officials and others, relying on shaky charges and insinuation. He was finally brought down when…
From 1929 to 1931, the tallest building in the world before the Empire State Building was opened was the Chrysler Building in New York City. In the 1920s, its architect, William Van Alen, was commissioned to design the world’s tallest building. Simultaneously his former partner, H. Craig Severance, was commissioned by another company to do…
The head of the Unification Church married 2,075 couples in a mass wedding at Madison Square Garden in New York City on July 1, 1982.