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3 days ago · John D. Rockefeller, American industrialist and philanthropist, founder of the Standard Oil Company, which dominated the oil industry and was the first great U.S. business trust. Learn more about Standard Oil’s reorganization in the face of antitrust actions and about Rockefeller’s philanthropy.
Jun 22, 2024 · To this end they funded fellow racist Margaret Sanger, who founded the nation’s first birth control clinic in Brooklyn in 1916. By 1921, Sanger had founded the American Birth Control League, which in 1942, became Planned Parenthood.
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23 hours ago · Democratic. The 1964 United States presidential election was the 45th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 3, 1964. Incumbent Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson defeated Republican Senator Barry Goldwater in a landslide victory. Johnson was the fourth and most recent vice president to succeed the presidency ...
2 days ago · Membership in the Council on Foreign Relations comes in two types: Individual and Corporate. Individual memberships are further subdivided into two types: Life Membership and Term Membership, the latter of which is for a single period of five years and is available to those between the ages of 30 and 36 at the time of their application.
Jun 28, 2024 · He was followed by Goldwater with 23 percent, Rockefeller with 21 percent, Nixon with 17 percent, and Margaret Chase Smith with 3 percent. A handful of voters wrote in Bill Scranton, despite his refusal to stand as a candidate.
5 days ago · Laurance Rockefeller, shot by Slim Aarons, at Caneel Bay, 1957. Rockefeller founded Caneel Bay in the mid-1950s, a gem in the midst of the 5,000 acres of pristine land he had bought up on St. John ...
Jun 14, 2024 · Margaret Galvin Was Abused and Threatened as a Child. It was in 1962 when Margaret was born to Mimi and Donald “Don” Galvin Sr. as their eleventh child yet first daughter, only to quickly become the apple of her arts enthusiast mother’s eyes.
