Son of a Cambridge logician and political economist, John Maynard Keynes was educated at Eton and King’s College, Cambridge.
Son of a Cambridge logician and political economist, John Maynard Keynes was educated at Eton and King’s College, Cambridge.
Kennedy was the progenitor of an American political dynasty. Despite poor marks in economics, after graduating from Harvard College in 1912, Kennedy was drawn to a career in banking, serving as a Massachusetts assistant state bank examiner between 1912 and late 1913.
Kaiser was born in New York in 1882. After holding a number of menial jobs, he moved to Spokane, Washington. He learned the construction business and began to bid on public works projects, first in Canada and then in the United States.
New York advertising agency opened in 1871 by J. Walter Thompson; it made a fortune in the ADVERTISING INDUSTRY.
Born on August 5, 1882, in Fort Scott, Kansas, Hugh S. Johnson was the son of Samuel L. Johnson, an attorney and rancher, and Elizabeth Mead Johnson.
Steven Paul Jobs was born in California in 1955 and adopted by a machinist and his accountant wife.
Susan B. Anthony, reformer and women’s suffragist, was born in Adams, Massachusetts, to Daniel Anthony and Lucy Read, one of eight children.
Harry Anslinger was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania, the son of an immigrant railroad worker. He earned an associate degree in engineering and business management and then went to work for the Pennsylvania Railroad as an investigator.
The current Internet architecture allows most on-line communications to be traced back to the author’s computer. That tracing process depends on the cooperation of Internet Service Providers (ISPs).
Anonymity has long been an important issue in American politics and jurisprudence. The key tension in American anonymity law is between the potentially chilling effects on speech stemming from compelled disclosure of identity and the desire to hold individuals accountable for harmful speech.
The Puritans of the early Massachusetts Bay Colony formed a tightly knit community with a common belief system enforced by civil and ecclesiastical law.
In Douglas v. California, 372 U.S. 353 (1963), the Supreme Court held that an indigent defendant was entitled to have counsel appointed to handle the appeal of his conviction.
Anthony Amsterdam, law professor and opponent of the death penalty, earned an A.B. from Haverford College in 1957 and an L.L.B. in 1960 from the University of Pennsylvania.
The part of banking that is concerned with securities underwriting and trading as well as other specialized financial services.
Technically, the name of this legislation was the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, one of a series of laws passed over a 50-year period that created the federal highway system.
A federal agency established by Congress in 1887 to regulate the RAILROADS. The ICC was created by the Interstate Commerce Act.
A banking law passed by Congress, and the first significant change in the structure and geography of banking since the 1920s.
A computer-based communications system allowing users to communicate quickly without relying upon telephone communication.
Chicagobased manufacturer and distributor of agricultural machinery, trucks, and construction equipment.
IBM has been a worldwide leader in data processing for more than a century—first in electromechanical punched card tabulating machines, and then in digital computers and associated peripherals, software, and services.
Insurance is a means of spreading risk across a large group of people.
Born in London, Insull served as secretary for the London agent of Thomas A. EDISON until 1881.
Amnesty International (Amnesty), an organization dedicated to advancing human rights and ending arbitrary detention, has been active worldwide for over forty years.
