Individuals and i know that either. You changed my life right now. For more information on the recent visit to West Lafayette indiana and the many other cities visited by her local content vehicles go to cspan. Org local content. And now more television for serious readers. Ezra greenspan calls the life of Williams Wells brown. He penned some of the earliest works of fiction and travel. He also reports of the contemporary offender douglas was a popular antislavery speaker who ran for office and practice medicine. This is about 50 minutes. Evening, ladies and gentlemen. My name is david murray and on the half of the staff its my pleasure to welcome you to politics and prose. Before we begin, let me remind you to take a moment to silence your devices and when we are done please ask questions. Please use the microphone. Thank you. And we always do 500 event such as every year as well as classes and trips and others and so if you would like to support that if you would like to know what is
In washington, d. C. , a panel of scholars talks about the role the Catholic Church played in educating, organizing, and advocating for immigrant laborers from the mid1800s to the 1940s. According to the census bureau, between 1850 in 1930, before an born population in the United States rose from 2. 2 million to 14. 2 million, and many of these immigrants were catholics from europe. The 90 Minute Program is part of a conference. Welcome to our final session. Just tutors myself, my name is maria zynga i am in archivist at the met american cap History Museum and a historian. I and elated to be here with you on this particular panel. This panel is concerned with immigration and labor specifically. This is a next really important topic, as most people who migrate to the United States come here to work. That causes all sorts of thorny issues as we are going to see. Just a couple of announcements before i introduce our speakers. We have a couple of books i want to point out. Go to the worker
Welcome to our final session. Id like to introduce myself. Im education archivist at the American Catholic Research Center and im a historian and assistant director for the institute of catholic studies. This panel is concerned with immigration and labor specifically and obviously its an extremely important topic. As most people who migrate to the United States, migrate here to work. And that causes all kinds of thorny issues as were going to see. Just a couple of announcements before i introduce our speaker. We have a couple of books i want to point out. Kimbell baker has a book called go to the worker on American Labor priests. Theres an order form on your table in case you want to order a copy. Second, the authors of this book are here. This copy is available for free and you can get it on your way out. I left a copy of a set of panels from a publication called the Treasure Chest of fun and fact which is actually pretty good. It was a catholic publication, a comic book publication i
Agency. My only rule at five in the morning, i had to start writing, get right into the story before i could put the water on for coffee. Most of the fiction i wrote at daybreak sold the magazine. For 2 cents a word. 310 to yuma in 1953, 4500 words western, sold 490. Two years later, a studio paid 4000 to make a movie starring glenn ford. And i liked it a lot, but walter called the picture three hours and 10 minutes past high noon. [laughter] in 1969, i wrote my first book that wasnt a western called the big bounce. My agent in hollywood at the time to read, called and said kidd, im going to make you rich. He saw the big bounce as a quick movie sale. Send it out to producers over the next few months and got 84 rejections. I did top that record. I got 105 rejections for another story that offered hitchcock bought, but then died on [laughter] but the book did so, and, and twice was adapted for the screen. Now, i cant believe anyone in this room so that either version of the picture or re
Americans. No sir. Does the n. S. A. Intercept americans cell phone conversations. No. Google searches. No. Text messages. No. There is no spying on americans, we dont have a domestic spying program. Are you telling the truth . It depends on your definition, i guess of truth. The narc times reports that the National Supreme Court Administration is in fact searching the contents of vast amounts of americans email and Text Communications into and out of the country. That sounds like domestic spying to me. Press secretary jay carney doubled down on the administrations loose definition of the word lying. Joe schmo from kokomo wants to know if he sends and email overseas if its being read, what do you say . Its not being read. The information targeted has to do with terrorist threats or potential terrorist threats emanating from foreign persons in foreign areas. According to the times story, the n. S. A. Collects email and Text Messages and searches them for key words, specifically any info