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- 3681: Joseph Kennedy
- ... Boston. Together they had 9 children, Joseph Patrick Jr., John Fitzgerald, Rosemary, Kathleen, Eunice Mary, Patricia, Robert Francis, Jean Ann, and Edward Moore. By the age of 30 he had amassed a great fortune through business ventures that included motion pictures, shipbuilding, and real estate, and through the stock market. As chairman of the Federal Maritime Commission in 1937, he laid the groundwork for the U.S. merchant marine. He was ...
- 3682: James Cameron
- ... his fathers job. When Cameron moved to Orange County he learned that getting a career in movies might not be the easiest job to obtain. He let the hope of becomming someone in the movie business fade and he started studying physics and english at a local university. He later dropped out of both studies because the math in the physics course had been to hard for Cameron to deal with ...
- 3683: The Stamp Act
- ... did not think it was fair. This was a matter that affected almost all Americans in all colonies. Many opposed the tax because they were unable to pay for it. The tax affected many powerful business people, printers were forced to stamp all of their work, and lawyers needed the official stamp on all of their legal documents. Soon delegates met in New York to form the Stamp Act Congress. There ...
- 3684: Canada's Unemployment Rate
- ... that these payroll taxes are job killers, they are taxation by stealth" , stated Fazil Mihlar of the Fraser Institute on the adverse effects of payroll taxes on the employment rate. There is concern in the business community over the effects of Canada's rapidly rising payroll taxes on job creation. A spring poll produced by the Fraser Institute concluded that high payroll and personal income tax levels are the biggest obstacle ...
- 3685: Kate Chopin: Adversity And Criticism
- ... in New Orleans for nine years. During this period of time six children were born: Jean, Oscar, George, Frederick, Felix and Leila. Oscar, job as cotton commissioner had started having problems. In 1880 when the business failed, the family moved to Cloutierville, Louisiana. There, Oscar opened a general store and continued to over see plantations. Here in Cloutierville Kate was able to meet a variety of people by helping her husband ...
- 3686: Kurt Cobain
- ... unusually tortured by success. The author of Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana said, "He was a very bright, sweet, generous, and caring person, perhaps a little too sweet and sensitive for the business he was in." One of Cobain's biggest worries was that his band had sold out. In one line of a not-so-popular song he says, "I'd rather be dead than be cool ...
- 3687: Laura Secord
- ... dating for a long period of time, James asked Laura to marry him. They married in 1797 at the Church of England. They were very wealthy. Laura was a big help to James in his business since she came from such an affluent family. By 1812, the Secord's had five children, two servants, a small pleasant house and a wealthy store. When they first got married, they lived in St ...
- 3688: Budget 97
- ... May or early June the Party was very reluctant to rock the boat further. This is what they have done in the 1997 budget and the subsequent reactions to the new budget from both the business and political communities. In this no-surprises, pre-election budget, Martin said deficit cutting is coming to an end and that Canadians, particularly the unemployed, will soon reap the rewards of 40 months of strict ...
- 3689: Liberalism: Hervert Spencer
- ... order and administration of justice are the only two proper realms of government activity, and their purpose is simply to defend the natural rights of man to protect person and property. The state has no business to promote religion, regulate trade and commerce, encourage colonization, aid the poor, or enforce sanitary laws. Spencer went even so far as to deny the state the right to wage war; but as he says ...
- 3690: Lizzie Borden
- ... pleased. Abby Borden came down about seven, Andrew a few minutes later. They had breakfast. Lizzie remained upstairs until a few minutes after Uncle John Morse left, at about 8:45. Andrew left for his business rounds around nine o'clock, according to Mrs. Churchill, the neighbor to the north. He visited the various banks where he was a stockholder, and a store he owned that was being remodeled. He left ...
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