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12 Cards in this Set
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Mabel Puffer |
A white woman engaged to a black man made national news for attempting to be married man arrested for enticement and she was arrested for insanity |
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Albert Einstein |
German physicist irreverent attitude to establish truth theory of relativity space-time and mass were not absolute but relative to Observer Nobel Prize |
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Max Planck |
German physicist suggested electromagnetic emissions of energy come in little bundles called quanta |
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Sigmund Freud |
The father of psychoanalysis Theory visited Clark University surprised to find himself so well known even in prudish America ideas percolated through magazines |
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Amelia Earhart |
First woman to fly solo across the Atlantic received the distinguished flying cross and outstanding American Woman of the Year in 1932 |
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Clarence Darrow |
An attorney spending most his career attacking religious intolerance defended John T Scopes for teaching evolution in his classroom |
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Andrew Mellon |
Secretary of the Treasury reduce spending and taxes greatest Secretary of the Treasury since Hamilton third richest man supported High tariffs on imported goods |
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Alfred Smith |
New York Governor a Democrat nominee for president opponent of prohibition |
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Ellison cotton Ed Smith |
Profane tobacco-chewing chair of the committee on agriculture and several other Southern delegates walked out of the 1936 Democratic party convention declared he would not support any party that views the Negro is a political and social equal |
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Charles E Coughlin |
Roman Catholic radio priest founded the national Union for social justice in 1935 dismiss the new deal as a communist conspiracy and revived the old populist scheme of Corning vast amounts of silver to increase the money supply he appealed to people who had lost the most during the Great Depression and receiving the least benefits from the new early Deal programs he was one of Roosevelt's most prominent critics |
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Eleanor Roosevelt |
During the 1920s taught school and began a lifelong Crusade on behalf of women blacks and Youth her compassion resulted in part from the loneliness she had experience as she was growing up and in part from the sense of betrayal she felt upon learning in 1918 that her husband was engaged in an extramarital affair with Lucy Mercer her personal secretary the bottom dropped out of my own particular world she recalled she redefined the role of the First Lady she was an outspoken activist the first woman to address a national political convention to write a nationally syndicated column and to hold regular press conferences a tireless Advocate and educator Eleanor crisscross the nation representing the president and the New Deal Define local segregation ordinances to meet with African-American leaders |
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Nan Britton |
Mistress to President Harding. Wrote a Presidents Daughter book. Controversial noone believed her. |
