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  2. Des Moines speech - Wikipedia

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    Des Moines speech The Burlington Daily Hawk Eye Gazette reporting on the speech, September 12, 1941 Date September 11, 1941 (1941-09-11) Duration 25 minutes Venue Des Moines Coliseum Location Des Moines, Iowa, U.S. Participants Charles Lindbergh The Des Moines speech, formally titled "Who Are the War Agitators?", was an isolationist and antisemitic speech that American aviator Charles ...

  3. Hyphenated American - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, the term hyphenated American refers to the use of a hyphen (in some styles of writing) between the name of an ethnicity and the word American in compound nouns, e.g., as in Irish-American. Calling a person a "hyphenated American" was used as an insult alleging divided political or national loyalties, especially in times of ...

  4. File:Teddy Roosevelt video montage.ogv - Wikipedia

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    Teddy_Roosevelt_video_montage.ogv (Ogg multiplexed audio/video file, Theora/Vorbis, length 35 s, 480 × 360 pixels, 1.58 Mbps overall, file size: 6.5 MB) This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons . Information from its description page there is shown below.

  5. Talk:Hyphenated American - Wikipedia

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    The modern meaning seems to be quite divergent from Roosevelt's original meaning. Certainly African Americans are included in books such as The Hyphenated American: The Hidden Injuries of Culture, By John C. Papajohn. Dicklyon 19:37, 25 January 2007 (UTC) Most Italian-Americans are nothing like modern day Italians either.

  6. Al Smith 1924 presidential campaign - Wikipedia

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    The speech, delivered around noon on June 26, was Roosevelt's first public major appearance since he contracted polio in the summer of 1921. [5] Roosevelt "walked" from his seat (amongst the New York delation) to the speakers podium by holding the arm of his son James with his left arm and leaning on a crutch with his arm. Once he reached the ...

  7. 1939 State of the Union Address - Wikipedia

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    [2] On September 1, 1939, the War in Europe began. Roosevelt ended his speech by quoting the closing lines from Abraham Lincoln's 1862 State of the Union Address when he said the following: Once I prophesied that this generation of Americans had a rendezvous with destiny. That prophecy comes true. To us much is given; more is expected.

  8. 1940 State of the Union Address - Wikipedia

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    The 1940 State of the Union Address was given by the 32nd president of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt, on Wednesday, January 3, 1940, to both houses of 76th United States Congress. It was given after World War II had begun, but before the fall of France, and about a year before the United States entered the war.. He said, "You are ...

  9. 1901 State of the Union Address - Wikipedia

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    The 1901 State of the Union Address was given on Tuesday, December 3, 1901, by the 26th president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt. It was presented to both houses of the 57th United States Congress, but he was not present. He stated, "The Congress assembles this year under the shadow of a great calamity.