Georgia Tann, la ladrona de bebés y su mercado negro de adopción lavanguardia.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from lavanguardia.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
1933: FDR’s inauguration brings a sense of ‘cautious optimism’ to a Depression-weary Syracuse
Updated Mar 09, 2021;
Posted Mar 09, 2021
- Franklin Roosevelt’s inauguration, March 4, 1933. FDR spoke to a crowd estimated at over 100,000 and millions more on the radio. During his unprecedented four terms, the radio became an important political tool. Roosevelt’s was the last March inauguration. The ratification of the 20th Amendment in 1933 changed the date to January 20th. Courtesy of the Library of CongressCourtesy of the Library of Congr
Facebook Share
By Robert Searing | Curator of History, Onondaga Historical Association
Eighty-Eight years ago, Americans found themselves adrift upon a sea of uncertainty, facing a tidal wave of challenges that threatened to sink the ship of state. Like the pandemic today, this was a global crisis, though not one of viral origins, but one rooted in the economic catastrophe of the stock market crash on Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929
James Weldon Johnson (1876–1938), who wrote “Lift Ev’ry Voice” with his brother, composer J. Rosamond Johnson, was a poet, novelist, Broadway lyricist, civil rights activist, and diplomat. Johnson expressed a diverse range of views about different subjects, including the affinities between African-Americans and Jews.
As Leonard Dinnerstein’s “Antisemitism in America” notes, in a 1918 essay published in The New York Age, an African American newspaper, Johnson wrote of “the two million Jews [who] have a controlling interest in the finances of the nation.” Yet he nevertheless urged fellow blacks to “draw encouragement and hope from the experiences of modern Jews.”
Cuomo stares down the third-term curse
New York’s history books are replete with tales from other third-term crypts.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks at a news conference. | Byron Smith/Getty Images
Link Copied
Terry Golway is a senior editor at POLITICO responsible for New York state political coverage out of Albany. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including Frank and Al: FDR, Al Smith, and the Unlikely Alliance That Created the Modern Democratic Party.
Hugh Leo Carey was the 51st governor of New York state and arguably was among the smartest of the bunch. That’s not to suggest he had better grades than, say, noted polymath Theodore Roosevelt, or that he could match credentials with the likes of John Jay. But on a cold January day in Albany in 1982, Carey showed just how smart he was by announcing that he would retire after two remarkable terms as the state’s chief executive.
Columbia ends 14-year divestment in Sudan, cites investment as a force for stabilization Millie Felder / Senior Staff Photographer Experts consulted by the ACSRI believe the decision to end divestment is one step toward revitalizing a country in the midst of a transition from autocratic to democratic rule. By Dia Gill | February 4, 2021, 11:44 PM
Columbia has officially ended its 14-year policy of divestment and non-investment in companies operating in Sudan. The board of trustees voted to lift the policy on Jan. 20 after a recommendation issued by the University’s Advisory Committee on Socially Responsible Investing.
The University officially divested from Sudan in 2006, following the lead of the U.S. government’s decision to enforce economic sanctions in 1997 and to label the ongoing crisis in Sudan as a “genocide” in 2004. Both the University and U.S. government have previously cited extensive human rights violations as reasons they imposed economic sanctions o