Good evening and welcome ia and chelsea with a good time to be born how Public Health gave children a future talking with Andrew Solomon. Before we start want to say a huge thanks to the team for making this happen and all of you for showing up we cannot host events without the community of authors and readers we are grateful for your support and to make this conversation so now just some housekeeping and the webinar tonight the speakers cannot see or hear you but you can see account of fellow attendees. A couple functions that you can find at the bottom of the window one is labor chat you can post comments and thoughts in the chat thats a great way to show your appreciation for the author have a specific question please post the and the q a module we will pull questions only from the q a to be answered in the later part of the program. And tonight. [chanting] book a good time to be born and to find actual shopping between noon and 7 00 p. M. Not everyday of the week and you can purcha
Next, legal and tax historian discusses is both making the modern american fiscal state. Law, politics and the rise of progressive taxation. 1877 to 1929. He explains how and why the United States shifted from generating most of its revenue from aggressive consumption taxes to a more direct and progressive tax on income with the passage of the 16th amendment. The National Archives center for legislative archives posted this event in december 2014. Thank you for attending todays researcher talk. Im richard mcculley, todays top is the last of 2014. A year when weve really been treated to some splendid presentations by some of the centers most significant researchers. That said, we end the year with a bang and todays guest will discuss his significant and timely book, making the modern american fiscal state. Law, politics and the rise of progressive taxation, 1877 to 1929. Published by Cambridge University press. We will resume this talk on january 15th when we host rebecca edwards. Profe
The man who didnt get it, charles hughes, Supreme Court justice, all but won the election in 1915. In fact, when president Woodrow Wilson went to bed the night Election Night, he thought he was beaten. If he would have been elected how American History goes in several different directions, on suffrage for women, civil rights. What does he do on Foreign Policy . Germany baited us into war. Hes the one you could write novels about. Charles evans hughes who is on the Supreme Court and then left the Supreme Court when he ran for president and then went back on the Supreme Court. One of the finest minds on the court. Fellow justice called Charles Evans hughes, the greatest in our great line of chief justices. Why hughes . Robert jackson provided part of the answer when he was attorney general. Jackson said that hughes, quote, looks like god and talks like god, end quote. 1916 footage of charles hughes, that years president ial nominee campaigned soon after the Republican National convention
Pushing prosecutors to charge protesters with a rarely used not in portland and the new world best in athletics swedish ball valter Mondo Duplantis smashes a 26 year old wrecked. Thank you for joining us we begin with a warning from the World Health Organization over what it says is an alarming surge in coronavirus cases in europe something it says should serve as a wake up call the number of cases has now passed 30000000 worldwide the United States is the worst affected country followed by india and brazil but as we mentioned its once again spreading in europe theyve been more than 300000 infections say in the past week the w. H. O. Is edging countries not to call cut quarantine periods warning that could waste the sacrifices being made at the British Government has admitted Testing Capacity there is unsatisfied at the battery for some london. Newcastle northeast england major city and now part of a huge region on the new covered restrictions from friday more than 1500000 residents ca
Contained but the smoke isnt going away yet. You can still smell it in the air. Good evening. Im frank somerville. And im jewel jul. Experts tell us the longer the exposure the more potential for damage. We have Team Coverage tonight. Chief meteorologist bill martin is tracking the smoke and where its the worst. First, its ktvus Jana Katsuyama with the prolonged effects andesh poseur. Reporter julie, they say that smoke particles can inflame the lungs even in healthy peoplement and air quality told me today they might have to extend the spare theair alerts through the week. Reporter smoky skies have hovered over the bay area through the weeks. In the north bay and santa cruz and east bay. Our house smells like smoke and my husband insists that we close the windows instead of letting in the cooler air. You can still smell the smoke now. Reporter the bay area air Quality Management district sparetheair alerts have been extended to tuesday, a record 15 days. Thats one more day issued in 2