Most Influential Americans of the 20th Century
The Life magazine editors list 100 figures led by Jane Adams with Muhammad Ali and Elizabeth Arden. The roster spans arts, science, industry, and public service, naming Roone Arledge, Louise Armstrong, George Balanchine, John Bardeen, Irving Berlin, and many others. The compilation notes notable omissions like Eisenhower Kennedy Truman and FDR.
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Life Magazine
Dwight Eisenhower
John F. Kennedy
Eleanor Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Douglas MacArthur
Harry Truman
Burger King
Ray Kroe
McDonald’s
Jane Adams
Illinois
Muhammad Ali
Boxer
Elizabeth Arden
Encyclopedia Americana
Adams
Hull House
Chicago
Centry
Roone Arledge
Louise Armstrong
George Ballanchine
John Bardeen
Irving Berlin
God Bless America
Edward L. Bernays
Leonard Bernstein
Marlon Brando
Werner von Braun
Dale Carnegie
Wallace Carothers
Willis Carrier
Rachel Carson
Bing Crosby
Clarence Darrow
Eugene Debs
Robert de Graff
John Dewey
Walt Disney
W.E.B. du Bois
NAACP
Allen Dulles
Central Intelligence Agency
Bob Dylan
Albert Einstein
T.S. Elliot
William Faulkner
Abraham Flexner
Henry Ford
John Ford
Betty Friedman
Milton Friedman
George Gallup
A.P. Gianini
Billy Graham
Martha Graham
D.W. Griffith
Joyce C. Hall
Hallmark Cards
Ernest Hemingway
Oliver Wendel Holmes
J. Edgar Hoover
Robert Hutchins
Helen Keller
Jack Kerouac
Billie Jean King
Martin Luther King
Alfred Kinsey
Wilhelm Koff
McDonald
Edward Land
William Levitt
John L. Lewis
Charles Lindbergh
Raymond Loewy
Henry Luce
George Marshall
Louis B. Mayer
Charles McCardell
Joseph McCarthy
Frank McNamara
Margaret Mead
Karl Menninger
Charles Merrill
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Robert Moses
William Muholland
Edward R. Murrow
Ralph Nader
Riehold Niebuhr
John von Neumann
Eugene O’neill
J. Rober Oppenheimer
William Paley
Jackson Pollock
Emily Post
Elvis Presley
Jackie Robinson
John D. Rockefeller
Richard Rodgers
Will Rogers
Babe Ruth
Jonas Salk
Margaret Sanger
Alfred P. Sloan Jr
Benjamin Spock
Alfred Steiglitz
Roy Stryker
Bill W
Alcoholics Anonymous
Andy Warhol
Earl Warren
Supreme Court
James D. Watson
Thomas J. Watson Jr
Tennessee Williams
Walter Winchell
Frank Lloyd Wright
Orville Wright
Wilbur Wright
Malcolm X
Labor Day roots and early U S unions traced
This piece surveys Labor Day origins from Knights of Labor in New York 1882 to 1884 and traces U S labor history. It covers early Philadelphia shoemakers 1792 to 1806, the 1786 printers strike, the 1842 Commonwealth v Hunt ruling, the 1912 minimum wage laws, and the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act, highlighting evolving labor rights and public attitudes toward unions.
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Collier’s Encyclopedia
Knights of Labor
New York City
Uriah Smith Stevens
Philadelphia
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Knights
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Eee
Philadelphia Shoemakers
America
Mechanics Union of Trade Association
American Labor Union Movement
Commonwealth v. Hunt
Massachusetts
Congress
National Departent of Labor
U.S
Reagan
United Mine Workers
Richard Trumka
Surprise wedding as Paul Harvey Jr plans72 year vow renewal
In a meticulously kept ruse, Paul Harvey Jr staged a kidnapping to orchestrate a surprise remarriage for Paul Harvey and Angel at Fourth Presbyterian Church in Chicago. The ceremony marked 50 years of marriage, followed by a reception at the Ritz, with 50 close family friends in attendance.
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Fourth Presbyterian Church
Paul
Liz
Junior
Angel
Ritz Hotel
Los Angeles Times Syndicate
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