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The Secretary of War was a member of the United States President's Cabinet, beginning with George Washington's administration. A similar position, called either "Secretary at War" or "Secretary of War," was appointed to serve the Congress of the Confederation under the Articles of Confederation between 1781 and 1789. Benjamin Lincoln and later Henry Knox held the position. When Washington was inaugurated as the first president under the Constitution, he appointed Knox to continue serving.
The Secretary of War was the head of the War Department. At first, he was responsible for all military affairs, including naval affairs. In 1798, the Secretary of the Navy was created by statute, and the scope of this office was reduced to a general concern with the Army. In 1947, the departments were recombined under the Secretary of Defense. The Secretary of War was replaced by the Secretary of the Army and the Secretary of the Air Force, which, along with the Secretary of the Navy, have since 1949 been non-Cabinet positions under the Secretary of Defense. The Secretary of the Army's office is generally considered the direct successor to the Secretary of War's office. The Secretary of Defense took the Secretary of War's position in the order of succession to the US Presidency and Cabinet.
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (/ˈɛlɨnɔr ˈroʊzəvɛlt/; October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962) was the First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945. She supported the New Deal policies of her husband, distant cousin Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and became an advocate for civil rights. After her husband's death in 1945, Roosevelt continued to be an international author, speaker, politician, and activist for the New Deal coalition. She worked to enhance the status of working women, although she opposed the Equal Rights Amendment because she believed it would adversely affect women.
In the 1940s, Roosevelt was one of the co-founders of Freedom House and supported the formation of the United Nations. Roosevelt founded the UN Association of the United States in 1943 to advance support for the formation of the UN. She was a delegate to the UN General Assembly from 1945 and 1952, a job for which she was appointed by President Harry S. Truman and confirmed by the United States Senate. During her time at the United Nations she chaired the committee that drafted and approved the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. President Truman called her the "First Lady of the World" in tribute to her human rights achievements.
Actors: Claude Akins (actor), Raoul Walsh (director), Lane Bradford (actor), Troy Donahue (actor), Howard Shoup (costume designer), James Gregory (actor), Russell Johnson (actor), Kent Smith (actor), Max Steiner (composer), John Twist (writer), Suzanne Pleshette (actress), Judson Pratt (actor), Diane McBain (actress), William H. Wright (producer), William Reynolds (actor),
Plot: Lt. Hazard, fresh out of West Point, arrives in Arizona Territory at hot, dusty, Fort Delivery. Appalled by the lax discipline of its troops, he restricts their privileges and subjects them to arduous drills. At the same time, he finds himself falling in love with Kitty, the wife of his commanding officer. This romance is complicated when his fiancee from Back East decides to pay a visit. Troubles with the local Indians, however, soon force Hazard to concentrate on his military duties which sometimes conflict with his sympathy for the Indians' cause.
Keywords: apache, arizona, based-on-novel, branding-iron, buried-in-anthill, cavalry-charge, commanding-officer, coward, desert, deserterActors: Thomas E. Jackson (actor), Douglas Kennedy (actor), Selmer Jackson (actor), George Chesebro (actor), Ben Corbett (actor), Miguel Inclán (actor), Reed Howes (actor), Stanley Blystone (actor), Kenne Duncan (actor), Charles Evans (actor), Tristram Coffin (actor), Don C. Harvey (actor), Chuck Hamilton (actor), Whitey Hughes (actor), Ethan Laidlaw (actor),
Plot: It's 1885 in Arizona and an Army Captain has dispersed his troops to keep the whites off of Government land thereby keeping the peace with the Apaches. But there are those in Tucson that want the miners back looking for gold and they put pressure on officials in Washington. Soon a new commander arrives, the troops are recalled, and the miners go after gold. Whites then kill a miner with an arrow so they can attack the Indians hoping the troops wipe them out when they retaliate.
Keywords: 1880s, apache, arizona, indian-uprising, native-americanActors: Ricardo Adalid (actor), Crox Alvarado (actor), Miguel Arenas (actor), David Silva (actor), Hernán Vera (actor), George Crone (editor), José Morcillo (actor), Alberto Galán (actor), Manuel Reachi (producer), Lucy Delgado (actress), Irina Baronova (actress), Arman Chelieu (writer), Arman Chelieu (director), León Greamín (actor), A. Anthony Davis (writer),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Ted Adams (actor), Dee Cooper (actor), Frank Ellis (actor), James Ellison (actor), Myron Healey (actor), Whitey Hughes (actor), Jack Kenny (actor), Carl Mathews (actor), Kansas Moehring (actor), Dennis Moore (actor), George Sowards (actor), Forrest Taylor (actor), Chief Thundercloud (actor), Darrell Calker (composer), Johnny Carpenter (actor),
Genres: Western,Actors: Alfred L. Werker (director), Werner R. Heymann (composer), Renié (costume designer), Edward Fielding (actor), Bryant Washburn (actor), Claire Carleton (actress), Una O'Connor (actress), Charles Arnt (actor), Joan Barclay (actress), Lillie Hayward (writer), George Cleveland (actor), Bert Moorhouse (actor), Bruce Edwards (actor), Harry Marker (editor), Bobby Larson (actor),
Genres: Family,Actors: Francis McDonald (actor), John Kelly (actor), Howard C. Hickman (actor), Robert Livingston (actor), Herman Bing (actor), Samuel S. Hinds (actor), Frank Conroy (actor), Wallace Beery (actor), Edward Earle (actor), Walter Brennan (actor), James Gleason (actor), Henry Hall (actor), G. Pat Collins (actor), Al Hill (actor), Adrian Morris (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Lowden Adams (actor), Johnny Arthur (actor), Sam Ash (actor), Rudolph Anders (actor), Sidney Bracey (actor), Harry C. Bradley (actor), Lynton Brent (actor), Al Bridge (actor), Lionel Atwill (actor), James P. Burtis (actor), Allan Cavan (actor), Charles Coleman (actor), Melville Cooper (actor), Gino Corrado (actor), Edgar Dearing (actor),
Plot: In 1917 Lt. Bill Gordon is headed for France when he meets and becomes friendly with Joel Carter, niece of the Asst. Secretary of War. Finding out that he is an expert on codes, she gets her uncle to cancel Bill's orders and has him reassigned to break enemy codes. In his new assignment he becomes involved with beautiful Russian spy Olivia Karloff, who is working for the Germans, and must juggle Joel's affection and his pursuit of Karloff's connections to retrieve a stolen code book.
Keywords: based-on-book, blackmail, cryptography, mexico, san-diego-california, secret-code, spy, suicide, war-department, washington-d.c.Actors: Eddie Dunn (actor), Irving Bacon (actor), Eddie Baker (actor), Ernie Adams (actor), Bruce Bennett (actor), Hobart Bosworth (actor), Al Bridge (actor), Tyler Brooke (actor), Andy Clyde (actor), George Barbier (actor), Heinie Conklin (actor), Edgar Dearing (actor), Vernon Dent (actor), Bobby Dunn (actor), Eddie Dunn (actor),
Plot: A small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a means of raising money. Either a masterpiece of absurdity or a triumph of satire, depending on your mood, but it's quite possibly the funniest movie ever made, and becomes even funnier with subsequent viewings.
Keywords: american-abroad, arm-wrestling, athlete, cabinet-meeting, competition, conspiracy, debt, discus, father-daughter-relationship, goatAnger - the force of the weak that tricks oneself but fools no one
Power - the force that absorbs without being overwhelmed
War the deeper scar of history
War the sanctification of tragedy
Peace - as crown of war is glory built upon misery
Terror - in a dead end finds its way out in the ecstasy of destruction
War the deeper scar of history
War the sanctification of tragedy
War the illusion of majesty
Why should we drink the poison before the remedy
Pride to die in combat - like all the other dead
All this to learn that - all nations' blood is running red
Pride to die in combat - like all the other dead
All this to learn that - all nations' blood is running red
War the deeper scar of history
War the sanctification of tragedy
War the illusion of majesty