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The origins of labor Day are rather dubious, born from congressional guilt of Americans shot down, by the Army and U.S. Marshalls, while exercising their first amendment right to congregate and protest during the Pullman Strike in Haymarket Square in Chicago on may 4, 1886.
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And fueled this takeover phenomena. reich: we romanticize these characters. the fact of the matter is, these are fat cats, first cousins to the financial manipulators, the robber barons of the late 19th century. these guys are out there, they're trying to make a buck by doing nothing. and they're putting people out of work. kent: economists agree that some unemployment, some hardship is unavoidable, in the vitally important process of making the united states lean and mean again -- what the takeover specialists call corporate restructuring. corporate america needs some kick now and then to bec...
His greatest contribution was the vast wealth his policies allowed millions of other Americans to produce.
Of all since Alexander Hamilton to hold the office of secretary of the treasury of the United States, the best of them is Andrew Mellon.