Posted on 11/19/2013 4:45:19 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Someone did. . . more forgettable that his ride apparently.
"Although Paul Revere is better known due to the epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Bissell was the subject of the less well known "Ride, Israel, Ride," an epic poem by Marie Rockwood of Stockbridge. "
Uh, no. FDR ended before both VE and VJ days. ;^)
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Also there was a book in the past decades called Historians' Fallacies that I remember as being a great eye-opener. The fallacies were not wrong facts but logical mistakes that historians make.
“Columbus struck land in the Caribbean and also explored Central and South America, but he never set foot on North America. Nonetheless, the U.S. celebrates Columbus Day every year.”
The Bahamas are in North America. Revisionist geography fail.
To be precise, I would say it was a national will to build out that infrastructure in defiance of the "progressive" theory and practice of the day that ended the Depression - and our current Depression will not end until we develop some similar motivation to defy today's progressives and set aside their economy-killing schemes.
The Emancipation Proclamation didn’t free any slaves.
She didn't speak Engrish!
No, that is a complete myth.
JFK was an excellent PT boat skipper.
Teddy Kennedy was definitely an excellent driver definitely.
JFK wrote the Pulitzer Prize winning book — PROFILES IN COURAGE
And to bust the busted myth above, Washington’s teeth were made of hippo ivory.
You could tell he did not finish his term as president from the books in the JFK Library in Boston.
Half the books were not colored in as yet.
I think you are being facetious. . . ;^)
But if you're not. . . Then your theory is? FDR ended the depression? The tooth fairy? Aliens??? The industrial infrastructure in the USA was destroyed by? What? Every trained machinist forgot what he/she learned making weapons? The growth in technological knowledge was thrown away because it wasn't needed for the war effort?
Add the economic stimulus of postwar rebuilding Europe and Asia. Investment, raw materials, and JOBS had to be produced over the next two decades to repair the damage. That put the world on the western side of the Iron Curtain to work. . .
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I’m arguing the depression end during the Eisenhower years.
People’s standard of living didn’t rise during the war. They went through all sorts of privations.
People who argue WWII ended the depression are arguing that war is an economic positive. Exactly the opposite is true. It is a gigantic sink.
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oh my.
Do you know any other good ones???
Could people enjoy the benefits of the nation's productivity? Not entirely. Some deprivations were enforced artificially. For example, the idiotic requirement to keep the yellow dye out of margarine, and not allowing bread to be sold pre-sliced as the slicing machines at bakeries lay idle by order of law.
Socially, and individually, you are probably correct, as the benefits of the infrastructure conversion began to be felt in the early fifties. Many workers were working to overcome the losses of the depression, buying, establishing businesses, going to school on the GI bill. The economy was booming, but conversion to peacetime footing took time. Figuring out HOW to use the capacity creativity. Six million workers (the returning soldiers) had to be absorbed into the work force. By 1955, I think everything was booming. So we are in agreement.
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