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It is hard to believe that there was a time when there was no right to obtain government information, no protection against hazards in children's toys and other consumer products, no federal safety standards for motor vehicles, and no insurance to protect an investors' money and securities in brokerage accounts. These and other consumer rights were created only after political battles in the decade between 1966 and 1976. This book is the story of that era and one of its leaders, Congressman John Moss. It describes key laws that were enacted by Congress despite political opposition. Moss fought for twelve years, against three presidents and, at times, his own party, for a freedom of information law that has stood the test of time and been copied around the world. He went on to challenge Wall Street in a battle to enact new investor protection laws.
One Life at a Time is a chronicle of the ancestors of the author's children as they arrived in the New World, what propelled them from Britain, Ireland and Korea, and what happened to them and their descendants once they took root in America -- one life at a time. This crisp narrative focuses on the history and development of New England and its people while illuminating episodes of the American experience spanning more than three centuries as lived by ordinary people forging a New World
The twisted, but fascinating, mind of a serial killer is revealed with terrifying consequences in this astonishing and shocking exploration. with 20 b&w photos.
A man of simple background but endowed with a disciplined and original mind, Ebenezer Howard was no flamboyant revolutionary but a visionary whose inventive gifts and common sense helped him to produce an original concept of social living, together with the means of making it reality. His lack of social advantages proves to be his strength, for his own life was near to the experience of those whose economic and spiritual poverty he sought to alleviate. He won support through his practical schemes as outlined in his writings and by his persuasive oratory on the platform rather than in the drawing rooms of middle-class radicals. Through single-mindedness and persistence Howard achieved the building of Letchworth and Welwyn Garden City and founded a world-wide movement. But his ideas were misunderstood and perverted and he saw, with horror, the increasing sprawl of yet more city suburbs, His basic thinking remains current today and it has achieved for him a place among those whose genius has helped to improve the quality of life for the many.
St. Paul's Parish, which occupies land in what is now King George County, was in Stafford County until 1777. Since most of the early records of Stafford County were destroyed, the 4,000 birth, marriage, and death records found in this transcription are of great importance.
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