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Julie Harris
Julie Harris 1925-, American actress, b. Grosse Point, Mich. Harris made her New York debut in It's a Gift (1945). Her versatility and power have won her enormous critical acclaim. Outstanding among her many stage performances were leading roles in Macbeth (1948), Member of the Wedding (1950;...
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Harry Lloyd Hopkins
Harry Lloyd Hopkins 1890-1946, American public official, b. Sioux City, Iowa. A social worker, he was appointed (1931) head of New York's Temporary Emergency Relief Administration by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, then governor of New York. Two years later, after Roosevelt became President, Hopkins was...
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Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman 1884-1972, 33d President of the United States, b. Lamar, Mo.
Early Life and Political Career
He grew up on a farm near Independence, Mo., worked at various jobs, and tended the family farm. He served as a captain of field artillery in France in World War I. On his return f...
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The Actors Studio
The Actors Studio organization founded 1947 in New York City by the directors Cheryl Crawford, Elia Kazan , and Robert Lewis to train professional actors. Long directed (1948-82) by Lee Strasberg and famous for its advocacy of the Stanislavsky "method" technique, the workshop has trained m...
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Gettysburg campaign
Gettysburg campaign June-July, 1863, series of decisive battles of the U.S. Civil War.
The Road to Gettysburg
After his victory in the battle of Chancellorsville , Confederate general Robert E. Lee undertook a second invasion of the North. The reorganized Army of Northern Virginia cros...
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Sir William Wallace
Sir William Wallace 1272?-1305, Scottish soldier and national hero. The first historical record of Wallace's activities concerns the burning of Lanark by Wallace and 30 men in May, 1297, and the slaying of the English sheriff, one of those whom Edward I of England had installed in his attempt to ...
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lend-lease
lend-lease arrangement for the transfer of war supplies, including food, machinery, and services, to nations whose defense was considered vital to the defense of the United States in World War II. The Lend-Lease Act, passed (1941) by the U.S. Congress, gave the President power to sell, transfer, le...
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Marshall Plan
Marshall Plan or European Recovery Program, project instituted at the Paris Economic Conference (July, 1947) to foster economic recovery in certain European countries after World War II. The Marshall Plan took form when U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall urged (June 5, 1947) that Euro...
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Jacques Necker
Jacques Necker , 1732-1804, French financier and statesman, b. Geneva, Switzerland. In 1750 he went to Paris and entered banking. He rose rapidly to importance, established a bank of his own, and became a director of the French East India Company. As a writer, Necker opposed the then fashionable ph...
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Nauru
Nauru , officially Republic of Nauru, atoll and independent republic (2005 est. pop. 13,000), c.8 sq mi (20 sq km), central Pacific, just south of the equator and west of the Gilbert Islands of Kiribati . It was formerly called Pleasant Island. There is no official capital, but government offices...
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