Quotes About 1913

No more than a utilitarian structure when constructed in 1913 as headquarters for Lambert's first excavation, the plain, one-story stucco building had been going downhill ever since. For

1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS.

A Birmigham suffragette called Bertha Brewster, writing to the Daily Telegraph in February 1913, did not pull her punches: Everyone seems to agree upon the necessity of putting a stop to Suffragist outrages, but no-one seems certain how to do so. There are two, only two ways in which this can be done. Both will be effectual. 1. Kill every woman in the United Kingdom. 2. Give women the vote.

In 1913, Edison donated some replacement palms, but, as Florida historian Michele Wehrwein Albion notes, "the relationship between the town and the Edisons remained somewhat strained.

1836: Following his years of fighting against the Rothschilds' and their central bank in America, President Andrew Jackson finally succeeds in throwing the Rothschilds' central bank out of America, when the bank's charter is not renewed. It would not be until 1913 that the Rothschilds' would be able to set up their third central bank in America, the Federal Reserve.

In 1913, an income tax became permanent in the United States with the adoption of the 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Of all men who graduated from Oxford in 1913, 31 percent were killed.

It was October in 1913, midway in a week of pleasant days, with the sunshine loitering in the cross-streets and the atmosphere so languid as to seem weighted with ghostly falling leaves.

In 1913 many believed that there would never again be a war in Europe. The great powers of the continent were so closely intertwined economically that the view was widespread that they could no longer afford to have military confrontations.

By securing the Rockefeller Foundation charter in 1913, Rockefeller insulated a large portion of his wealth from inheritance taxes.

The frontiers of the Greek state as we know it today mostly date from as recently as 1913.

1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS.

'Bradshaw's' is a lovely device for the time-travelling television presenter. I just hope that people buying it aren't doing so with the intention of plotting a tour of 21st-century Europe. They'll find quite a lot has changed since 1913.

The only thing that could save the revolution, Lenin wrote in 1913, would be a war between Austria and Russia. "But it's scarcely likely that Franz Josef and Nikolasha [Lenin's nickname for the czar he despised] would grant us this pleasure."41

up until 1913, most wealth was reinvestment wealth.

Schlieffen's plan was maintained and Moltke consoled himself with the thought, as he said in 1913, that "We must put aside all commonplaces as to the responsibility of the aggressor.… Success alone justifies war.

Het moet trouwens toch maar eens afgelopen zijn met de 'moderniteit' in dit jaar - dat is zo'n rekbaar begrip, door tijdgenoten en latere generaties telkens anders geïnterpreteerd en door iedere generatie steeds weer in een ander tijdsgewricht geplaatst, dat het eigenlijk helemaal niet geschikt is om de ontzaglijke niet-gelijktijdige gelijktijdigheid die het jaar 1913 vooral kenmerkt naar behoren te schetsen.

The Federal Reserve Act was passed by Congress in 1913 while most of its members were on Christmas vacation giving all powers to this newly created central bank to issue legal tender and regulate the money supply as it saw fit.

Actually he did not need to earn a penny. By 1913 his mother and his aunt had left him two fair-size legacies. He kept both secret. Nobody in the Männerheim suspected him of an income that could have easily paid for quarters at a comfortable hotel.

In the summer of 1913, Kafka bangs endlessly on about 'necessity,' that favorite concept of every German since Hegel who ever planned to do something morally dubious.

I was... blaspheming my luck in a way that made my breath smell of brimstone.

This is called the Three Muses," Barbara said, pride evident in her voice. "One of my favorites, it was installed in 1913. The goddesses represent History, Science, and Art. The sculpture was created by Julia Bracken Wendt

Ludvig Chaplinskiy wrote in the Russian magazine Hercules in 1913, "Kettlebell lifting more than any other sport relies on nerve strength; its sensible practice strengthens the nervous system, mindless practice destroys it.

Not a single sport develops our muscular strength and bodies as well as kettlebell athletics," reported Russian magazine Hercules in 1913.