For most of history, states did not have any fixed standing army. Almost all warriors were farmers for the bulk of the year and thus had a secondary occupation to support them during times of peace. The first state to face significant veterans affairs problems was the Roman Empire whose professional army of career soldiers needed some new role when they retired. They were usually given land in the newly conquered lands, and the need for such lands motivated the empire's expansion. They could also voluntarily enlist again at the invitation of t ...

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1932 - January-February. January 3 - British arrest and intern Mohandas Gandhi and Vallabhbhai Patel January 8 - In Britain the Archbishop of Canterbury forbids church remarriage of divorcees January 12 - Hattie W. Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate January 14 - Maurice Ravel's Concerto in G (Ravel) debuts with piano soloist Marguerite Long and Ravel conducting the Lamoureux Orchestra January 15 - Pierre Laval f ...

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The events testified in the McCormack-Dickstein Committee happened between July and November 1933. The Committee began examining the Business Plot on November 20, 1934. On November 24 the committee released a statement detailing the testimony it had heard about the Business Plot and its preliminary findings. On February 15, 1935, the committee submitted to the House of Represenatives its final report.[4] The McCormack-Dickstein Committee ...

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The Piscataway Indians, a branch of the Algonquin, settled in the region in the early 17th century. European settlers began arriving in the decades thereafter, pushing the natives West as the Virginia Colony expanded from the south and the Province of Maryland from the east. The town of Georgetown, generally coterminous with the modern neighborhood of that name, was first settled in 1696, and continuously settled after 1751. Th ...

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See also: Colonial America and British colonization of the Americas George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore applied to Charles I for a new royal charter for what was to become the Province of Maryland. George Calvert died in April 1632, but a charter for "Maryland Colony" (in Latin, "Terra Maria") was granted to his son, Cæcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, on June 20, 1632. Some historians view this as a form of compensation for his father's being stripped of his title of Secretary of State upon announcing his Roman Catholicism in 1625. The new colony was named ...

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After World War II, MacArthur served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers (SCAP). His first responsibility was overseeing the reconstruction in Japan. Though it was officially an effort of the Allies, the US was firmly in control, and MacArthur was effectively the leader of Japan during this period. In 1946, MacArthur's staff created the constitution that is in use in Japan to this day and has greatly contributed to the stability and prosperity of the country. MacArthur handed over power to the newly-formed Japanese government in 1949, ...

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MacArthur returned to Washington (his first time in the continental US in 11 years), where he made his last public appearance in a farewell address to the U.S. Congress, interrupted by thirty ovations. In his closing speech, he mused: "Old soldiers never die, they just fade away." On his return from Korea, after his relief by Truman, MacArthur encountered massive public adulation, which aroused expectations that he would run for the US presidency as a Republican in the 1952 election. However, a U.S. Senate Committee investigation of his removal, chaired by Richard Russell, contributed to a marked cooling of t ...

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See also Pre-Colonial America It appears that the first humans to arrive in the area that would become Maryland appeared around the 10th millennium BC, about the time that the last ice age ended. They were hunter-gatherers organized into semi-nomadic bands. They adapted as the region's environment changed, developing the spear for hunting as smaller animals, like deer, became more prevalent and by about 1,500 B.C. ...

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On December 9th, a day before he was due to return to the United States, Patton was severely injured in a road accident. He and General Hap Gay were on a daytrip to hunt pheasants in the country, outside Mannheim. It was a cold, wet, hazy December morning. Their 1939 Cadillac Model 75 was driven by PFC Horace Woodring. Patton sat in the back seat, on the right with Gen. Gay to his left, as per custom. At 11:45 near Necker Stadt (Käfertal) a 2 1/2 ton truck driven by T/5 Robert L. Thompson appeared out of the haze and made a left-hand turn t ...

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Almost immediately after the "Federal City" was laid out across the Potomac River, the residents south of the Potomac began petitioning to be returned to Virginia's jurisdiction. Over time, a movement grew to separate Alexandria from the District of Columbia for several reasons: Alexandria's economy had stagnated as competition with the port of Georgetown had begun to favor the north side of the Potomac. The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal was already helping Georgetown take more business from Alexandria, and the canal was still being ...

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Washington remained a small city of a few thousand residents, virtually deserted during the torrid summertime, until the outbreak of the U.S. Civil War in 1861. President Abraham Lincoln created the Army of the Potomac to defend the federal capital, and thousands of soldiers came to the area. The significant expansion of the federal government to administer the war—and its legacies, such as veterans' pensions—led to notable growth in the city's population.See also:

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In the early 1870s, Washington was given a territorial government. Its first governor, Alexander Shepherd, however, gained an unfortunate reputation as an extravagant boss. His excesses led Congress to abolish his office in favor of direct rule; Congressional governance of the District would continue for a century. In the early 1880s, the Washington Canal was filled in. Originally an expansion of Tiber Creek, the Canal connected the Capitol with the Potomac, running along the north side of the Mall where Constitution Avenue is today. ...

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The Congressional committee report confirmed Butler's testimony. This report was published in the 1973 book The Plot to Seize the White House[28], by Jules Archer: In the last few weeks of the committee's life it received evidence showing that certain persons had attempted to establish a fascist organization in this country...There is no question that these attempts were discussed, were planned, and might have been placed in execution if the financial backers deemed it expedient...MacGuire denied [Butler's] allegations under oa ...

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MacArthur was born in Little Rock, Arkansas on the northwest upper floor of The Tower Building of the Little Rock Arsenal. His parents were Lieutenant General Arthur MacArthur Jr., a recipient of the Medal of Honor during the American Civil War, who was the son of jurist and politician Arthur MacArthur, Sr., and Mary Pinkney Hardy MacArthur of Norfolk, Virginia. In 1883, when he was three years old, his other brother, Malcolm, died (his older brother Arthur would later attend the U.S. Naval Academy and die in 1923 as a Captain.) Young Dougla ...

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Washington appointed Pierre Charles L'Enfant to devise a plan for the new city. L'Enfant designed the city's layout, a grid centered on the United States Capitol, crossed by diagonal avenues named after the states of the union. The intersections of these avenues with the north-south and east-west streets were carved into grand circles which would honor notable Americans. While surveying and construction were underway, both Congress and Presidents Washington and John Adams governed from other cities. In 1800, the seat of government was finally moved to the new city, and on February 27, 1801, the distri ...

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See also: History of the United States (1789-1849) History of Maryland - Early days under the U.S. Constitution. See also: See also: History of the United States Constitution In a small way, the story of the United States Constitution began in Maryland, as it was in Annapolis that delegates from five states (not including Maryland) first met to call for a Constitutional Convention to correct the problems with the Articles of Confederation. This meeting, called the Annapolis Conv ...

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See also: History of the United States (1865-1918) History of Maryland - Post-Civil War political developments. Since Maryland had, reluctantly or not, remained in the Union during the Civil War the state did not undergo reconstruction like the states of the former Confederacy. However, as both a Southern state and a former slave state, Maryland did experience many of the same problems with civil rights and racial tensions as did the rest of the south. The deep divisions in the state between those who fought for the North ...

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See also: History of the United States (1918-1945) History of Maryland - The Ritchie administration. In 1918, Maryland elected Albert C. Ritchie, a Democrat, governor. He would be reelected four times, serving from 1919 to 1934, and is arguably the state's all-time most popular governor. Handsome and aristocratic, Ritchie was very pro-business. He hired a management firm to streamline government operations and established a budget process controlled largely by economists. He also won approval for a ...

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See also: History of the United States (1776-1789) Maryland did not at first favor independence from Great Britain and gave instructions to that effect to its delegates to the Continental Congress. During this initial phase of the revolutionary period, Maryland was governed by the Assembly of Freemen, an Assembly of the state's counties. The first convention lasted four days, from June 22 to June 25, 1774. All sixteen counties then existing were represented ...

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George Patton was the focus of the 1970 Academy Award-winning movie Patton, with the title role played by George C. Scott. As a result of the movie and its now-famous opening monologue (based on a real speech he often made to Third Army troops before the Normandy invasion), in popular culture Patton has come to symbolize a warrior's ferocity and aggressiveness. Although the movie is based upon Ladislas Farago's "Patton: Ordeal and Triumph" and Omar Bradley's "A Soldier's Story," historians have stated the movie's accuracy could be tin ...

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After World War II, MacArthur served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers (SCAP). His first responsibility was overseeing the reconstruction in Japan. Though it was officially an effort of the Allies, the US was firmly in control, and MacArthur was effectively the dictator of Japan during this period. In 1946, MacArthur's staff created the constitution that is in use in Japan to this day. MacArthur handed over power to the newly-formed Japanese government in 1949, and remained in Japan until relieved by President Truman on April 11, 1951. Truman replaced SCAP lea ...

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