Redford doesn't mind his wife's political activity, but he is bored by politics and cannot relate to them. The turbulent 1950's hit, Redford is a writer in "Red Scare" Hollywood who takes the easy way out; Streisand believes people should always stand up for their principles, no matter...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who was often referred to as"FDR," was the 32nd president of the United States. He served from 1933 to 1945; however, he had a stroke during his fourth term and died just 11 weeks in. He led the country during the majority of World War II, passing away on...
Shot and killed Philip Barton Key, his wife's lover and the son of the author of the national anthem, at Lafayette Park, Washington, D.C, 1859; charged with murder, but with the help of his attorney Edwin M. Stanton, was acquitted after the first successful plea of temporary insanity ...
To avoid being vetoed nine days after Congress adjourned, FDR signed 121 bills on June 25. One of these was the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), passed to ban oppressive child labor. It set the minimum hourly wage at 25 cents and restricted the workweek to eight hours a day, five days...
The frontiers of the mind were groped at by Sigmund Freud in his book 'Introduction to Psychoanalysis'. Among those who died in 1917 were Buffalo Bill, painter Edgar Degas and sculptor Auguste Rodin. Numerous familiar people were born that year, including Dizzy Gillespie, Kirk Douglass, Desi ...