Prelude to Saratoga battles at Oriskany and Bennington
The 1777 campaigns hinge on two sharp prelude clashes. At Oriskany Nicholas Herkimer dies after a costly fight that delays St Leger. At Bennington John Stark defeats Burgoyne’s detachments, boosting Patriot morale and sealing Burgoyne’s fate.
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Prelude
Saratog
Herkimer
Oriskany
Stark
Bennington
Horatio Gates
Saratoga
Nicholas Herkimer
John Stark
Johnny
Fort Edward
Lord Germain
Albany
Schuyler
Burgoyne
Baum
Manchester
N. H
Rogers’ Rangers
Bunker Hill
Trenton
Princeton
Congress
Onel Breyman
Sudenly
Warner
Bregman
Wages and hours bill faces delayed action and Senate fight
The piece notes the wages and hours regulation bill likely to slide to the next session. Congress faces deep divisions over exemptions regional differences and pay scales while the Senate focuses on the Supreme Court enlargement. A tense stalemate and potential October adjournment loom as negotiations continue.
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Washington
Congress
House Labor Committee
Mary T. Norton
Jersey City
William F. Connery
Massachusetts
Supreme Court
Senate
House
Europe
Capfol Hill
Early American dreamers and a Hollywood shift from hardship
The passage profiles Walt Disney and William Fox, detailing Disney born in Chicago 1901 and his rise from mail carrier to creator of Mickey Mouse after wartime work and Oswald setback. It notes Fox born 1879 in Hungary, immigrating as an infant, rough youth selling stove blacking and candy lozenges as precursors to a publishing and film career.
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John L. Lewis
William Green
Franklin
D. Roosevelt
Lewis
American Federation of Labor
Committee For Industrial Organization
C. S
Green
Walt Disney
Chicago
Mickey Mouse
Kansas City
Moving Picture
Hollywood
Oswald, the
Rabbit
Disney
Mickey Rite
America
William Fox
Tulichva
Hungary
William
New York City
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Elmo Scott Watson
Johnny” Burgoyne
United States
Sadat
Oswego
Pranent Uie
Wits
Whitestown
St. Leger
Old Honikol
Little Falls
Vermont
St. Johns
Fort Liconderoga
Rea Seee
Sir John Johnson
Johnson
Patlaotic
General Herkimer
Battle of
Yohn
The
Glens Insurante Company
Chappel
Gen
John Blark
Ardu
Cal Strat
Roosevelt
Toto
Army
Wilson
Woman's Party
Alice Paul
American Federation
Carrie Chapman Catt
Third Street Dock
Central Park
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