Honest Men Quotes
The Senator received some bad press regarding his part in the railroad rate reform issue. He believed that the stories were planted by his political enemies.
She was found guilty of treason because she had passed out leaflets criticizing the Nazi regime on a university campus. The non violent resistance tactics were so threatening to the Nazi German regime that Sophia and other members were executed by guillotine beheading as a particularly harsh example. The graphic is a postage stamp that Germany has issued in her honor.
Adams had moved from Philadelphia just the previous day and arrived in the White House still under construction. This quotation is inscribed in the White House State Room.
“Public charities” were government services that were like those provided by private charities: relief, food, housing etc. ie “welfare”
There was a March on Washington planned for 1942. However, the leaders were persuaded to call it off as the United States was in the midst of the Second World War. The military was segregated and so were the defense plants. FDR made some concessions regarding defense jobs but discrimination was still rampant. It would be 20 years later when the March actually took place with some of the same leaders organizing it.
