The Social Security Act of 1935 INDEX PREAMBLE TITLE I- GRANTS TO STATES FOR OLD-AGE ASSISTANCE AppropriationState Old-Age Assistance PlansPayment to StatesOperation of State PlansAdministrationDefinition TITLE II- FEDERAL OLD-AGE BENEFITS Old-Age Reserve AccountOld-Age Benefit PaymentsPayments Upon DeathPayments to Aged Individuals ...
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Franklin D. Roosevelt First Inaugural Address Saturday, March 4, 1933 The oath of office was delivered by Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes on the East Portico of the Capitol Building. This speech is notable in that Roosevelt used it to ...
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The Balfour Declaration November 2, 1917 Dear Lord Rithchild, I have much pleasure in conveying to you, on behalf of His Majesty's Government, the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations which has been submitted to, and approved by, ...
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Text Of The Declaration Of War Against Germany World War I Joint Resolution Passed by the United States Senate and House of Representatives Effective April 6, 1917, at 1:18 p.m WHEREAS, The Imperial German Government has committed repeated acts of ...
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President Wilson's Address to Congress Regarding a Possible Declaration of War On Germany by President Woodrow Wilson February 3, 1917 In this address, President Wilson said he would wait for an overt act by the German government showing that Germany ...
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The New York Sun on the San Francisco Earthquake The New York Sun April 19, 1906 The San Francisco Earthquake of April 18, 1906 was followed by a fire lasting four days and destroying 497 city blocks covering five square ...
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On American Motherhood by Theodore Roosevelt March 13, 1905 A speech given by President Roosevelt in Washington on March 13, 1905, before the National Congress of Mothers. In our modern industrial civilization there are many and grave dangers to counterbalance ...
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Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Address March 4, 1905 Theodore Roosevelt had served as president for three years at this time of his first inaugural address, as he had ascended to the presidency on September 14, 1901 after the assassination of President ...
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Reasons for Being a Republican by Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) September 28, 1880 Delivered by the retired president before a Republican gathering in Warren, Ohio. IN view of the known character of the speaker who is to address you to-day, ...
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Woman's Rights to the Suffrage by Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) 1873 This speech was delivered in 1873, after Anthony was arrested, tried and fined $100 for voting in the 1872 presidential election.  Friends and Fellow Citizens: I stand before you ...
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