Which U.S. presidential candidate offered a “square deal”?
Theodore Roosevelt offered a “square deal”.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt offered a “new deal”.
Harry Truman offered a ‘fair deal”.
Diners Club, the first credit card for buying goods and services from more than one institution was invented in 1950 by Frank McNamara. McNamara, a loan company executive in New York, got the idea when he found himself short of money at a restaurant.
The emergency communications link, also called “hot line”, between Washington and Moscow was installed in 1963 to reduce the possibility of accidental nuclear war.
The name “Alaska” comes from an Aleutian word meaning “mainland,” distinguishing it from the islands on which the Aleutian people lived.
In 1992, the words “Pan Am” were replaced by “MetLife” on the crown of the Pan Am Building at 200 Park Avenue, New York City. The change marked the final end of Pan American World Airways, which ceased operations in December 1991 but had housed offices in the building. It was also more accurate, since…
Many tribes besides the Sioux speak Siouan languages. These include the Biloxi of Mississippi, the Winnebagos of Wisconsin, the Osages of Missouri, and the Omahas of Iowa and Nebraska.
The opening words of the Declaration of Independence are as follows: When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature…