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Joseph Alsop, the Glossary

Joseph Wright Alsop V (October 10, 1910 – August 28, 1989) was an American journalist and syndicated newspaper columnist from the 1930s through the 1970s.^[1]

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American Volunteer Group

The American Volunteer Groups were volunteer air units organized by the United States government to aid the Nationalist government of China against Japan in the Second Sino-Japanese War.

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Arthur H. Vandenberg Jr.

Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg Jr. (June 30, 1907 – January 18, 1968) was a Republican government official from Michigan. Joseph Alsop and Arthur H. Vandenberg Jr. are American LGBT military personnel.

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Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr., an African-American clergyman and civil rights movement leader, was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968, at 6:01 p.m. CST.

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Avon, Connecticut

Avon is a town in the Farmington Valley region of the Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut, United States.

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A Bachelor of Arts (abbreviated B.A., BA, A.B. or AB; from the Latin baccalaureus artium, baccalaureus in artibus, or artium baccalaureus) is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the liberal arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines.

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Battle of Hong Kong

The Battle of Hong Kong (8–25 December 1941), also known as the Defence of Hong Kong and the Fall of Hong Kong, was one of the first battles of the Pacific War in World War II.

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Bill Moyers

Bill Moyers (born Billy Don Moyers; June 5, 1934) is an American journalist and political commentator.

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Blackmail

Blackmail is a criminal act of coercion using a threat.

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Boarding school

A boarding school is a school where pupils live within premises while being given formal instruction.

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Central Intelligence Agency

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), known informally as the Agency, metonymously as Langley and historically as the Company, is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT) and conducting covert action through its Directorate of Operations.

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Chongqing

Chongqing is a municipality in Southwestern China.

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Civil rights movement

The civil rights movement was a social movement and campaign from 1954 to 1968 in the United States to abolish legalized racial segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement in the country.

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Claire Lee Chennault

Claire Lee Chennault (September 6, 1893 – July 27, 1958) was an American military aviator best known for his leadership of the "Flying Tigers" and the Chinese Nationalist Air Force in World War II.

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Columnist

A columnist is a person who writes for publication in a series, creating an article that usually offers commentary and opinions.

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Connecticut General Assembly

The Connecticut General Assembly (CGA) is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Connecticut.

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Corinne Alsop Cole

Corinne Alsop Cole (born Corinne Douglas Robinson; July 2, 1886 – June 23, 1971) was an American politician who served two terms as a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives. Joseph Alsop and Corinne Alsop Cole are alsop family, Bulloch family, Roosevelt family and Schuyler family.

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David Auburn

David Auburn (born 30 November 1969) is an American playwright, screenwriter and theatre director.

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Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight David Eisenhower (born David Dwight Eisenhower; October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969), nicknamed Ike, was an American military officer and statesman who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961.

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Factions in the Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party in the United States includes several factions, or wings.

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Flying Tigers

The First American Volunteer Group (AVG) of the Republic of China Air Force, nicknamed the Flying Tigers, was formed to help oppose the Japanese invasion of China.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882April 12, 1945), commonly known by his initials FDR, was an American politician who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. Joseph Alsop and Franklin D. Roosevelt are Groton School alumni and Roosevelt family.

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Free China (Second Sino-Japanese War)

The term Free China, in the context of the Second Sino-Japanese War, refers to those areas of China not under the control of the Imperial Japanese Army or any of its puppet governments, such as Manchukuo, the Mengjiang government in Suiyuan and Chahar, or the Provisional Government of the Republic of China in Beiping.

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George C. Marshall

George Catlett Marshall Jr. (31 December 1880 – 16 October 1959) was an American army officer and statesman.

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Georgetown (Washington, D.C.)

Georgetown is a historic neighborhood and commercial district in Northwest Washington, D.C., situated along the Potomac River.

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Gore Vidal

Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (born Eugene Louis Vidal, October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012) was an American writer and public intellectual known for his acerbic epigrammatic wit. Joseph Alsop and Gore Vidal are American LGBT military personnel.

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Groton School

Groton School is a private college-preparatory day and boarding school located in Groton, Massachusetts. Joseph Alsop and Groton School are Groton School alumni.

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Groton, Massachusetts

Groton is a town in northwestern Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, within the Greater Boston metropolitan area.

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Harvard College

Harvard College is the undergraduate college of Harvard University, a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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History of the Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party, also known as the GOP (Grand Old Party), is one of the two major political parties in the United States.

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Homosexuality

Homosexuality is sexual attraction, romantic attraction, or sexual behavior between members of the same sex or gender.

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Imperial Japanese Army

The (IJA) was the principal ground force of the Empire of Japan.

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Indian Hill Cemetery

Indian Hill Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery located at 383 Washington Street in Middletown, Connecticut on a hill adjacent to Wesleyan University.

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International Control Commission

The International Control Commission (abbreviated ICC; Commission Internationale de Contrôle, or CIC), was an international force established in 1954.

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Ivy League

The Ivy League is an American collegiate athletic conference of eight private research universities in the Northeastern United States.

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J. Edgar Hoover

John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972) was an American law-enforcement administrator who served as the final Director of the Bureau of Investigation (BOI) and the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

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James Monroe

James Monroe (April 28, 1758July 4, 1831) was an American statesman, lawyer, diplomat, and Founding Father who served as the fifth president of the United States from 1817 to 1825, a member of the Democratic-Republican Party.

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Japanese occupation of Hong Kong

The Imperial Japanese occupation of Hong Kong began when the governor of Hong Kong, Sir Mark Young, surrendered the British Crown colony of Hong Kong to the Empire of Japan on 25 December 1941.

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John deKoven Alsop

John deKoven Alsop (July 4, 1915 – April 6, 2000) was an American politician, insurance executive, and soldier. Joseph Alsop and John deKoven Alsop are alsop family, Bulloch family, Roosevelt family and Schuyler family.

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John F. Kennedy

John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to as JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.

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John Jay

John Jay (1745 – May 17, 1829) was an American statesman, diplomat, abolitionist, signatory of the Treaty of Paris, and a Founding Father of the United States.

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John Lithgow

John Arthur Lithgow (born, 1945) is an American actor.

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Joseph McCarthy

Joseph Raymond McCarthy (November 14, 1908 – May 2, 1957) was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death at age 48 in 1957.

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Joseph Wright Alsop IV

Joseph Wright Alsop IV (April 2, 1876 – March 17, 1953) was an American politician and father of Joseph Wright Alsop V and Stewart Alsop. Joseph Alsop and Joseph Wright Alsop IV are Burials at Indian Hill Cemetery.

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Journalist

A journalist is a person who gathers information in the form of text, audio or pictures, processes it into a newsworthy form and disseminates it to the public.

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Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937

The Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937, frequently called the "court-packing plan",Epstein, at 451.

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KGB

The Committee for State Security (Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti (KGB)) was the main security agency for the Soviet Union from 13 March 1954 until 3 December 1991.

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Kunming

Kunming is the capital and largest city of the province of Yunnan in China.

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Lend-Lease

Lend-Lease, formally the Lend-Lease Act and introduced as An Act to Promote the Defense of the United States, in Milestone Documents, National Archives of the United States, Washington, D.C., retrieved February 8, 2024; (notes: "Passed on March 11, 1941, this act set up a system that would allow the United States to lend or lease war supplies to any nation deemed 'vital to the defense of the United States.'"; contains photo of the original bill, H.R.

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List of governors of Connecticut

The governor of Connecticut is the head of government of Connecticut, and the commander-in-chief of the state's military forces.

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Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908January 22, 1973), often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969. Joseph Alsop and Lyndon B. Johnson are 20th-century American memoirists.

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Middletown, Connecticut

Middletown is a city in Middlesex County, Connecticut, United States.

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Mieczysław Maneli

Mieczysław Maneli (born Moshe Meir Manela; 22 January 1922 – 9 April 1994) was a Polish lawyer, diplomat and academic best remembered for his work with the International Control Commission (ICC) during the Vietnam War, especially the 1963 "Maneli Affair".

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Modern liberalism in the United States

Modern liberalism in the United States is based on the combined ideas of civil liberty and equality with support for social justice.

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Moscow

Moscow is the capital and largest city of Russia.

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MS Gripsholm (1924)

MS Gripsholm was an ocean liner, built in 1924 by Armstrong Whitworth in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, for the Swedish American Line for use in the Gothenburg-New York City run.

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Myanmar

Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma (the official name until 1989), is a country in Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has a population of about 55 million. It is bordered by Bangladesh and India to its northwest, China to its northeast, Laos and Thailand to its east and southeast, and the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal to its south and southwest.

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National Gallery of Art

The National Gallery of Art is an art museum in Washington, D.C., United States, located on the National Mall, between 3rd and 9th Streets, at Constitution Avenue NW.

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New York Herald Tribune

The New York Herald Tribune was a newspaper published between 1924 and 1966.

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Ngô Đình Nhu

Ngô Đình Nhu (7 October 19102 November 1963; baptismal name Jacob) was a Vietnamese archivist and politician.

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Nicholas Katzenbach

Nicholas deBelleville Katzenbach (January 17, 1922 – May 8, 2012) was an American lawyer who served as United States Attorney General during the Lyndon B. Johnson administration.

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North American Newspaper Alliance

The North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA) was a large newspaper syndicate in operation between 1922 and 1980.

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North Vietnam

North Vietnam, officially the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV; Việt Nam Dân chủ Cộng hòa; chữ Nôm: 越南民主共和), was a socialist state in Southeast Asia that existed from 1945 to 1976, with formal sovereignty being fully recognized in 1954.

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Penguin Books

Penguin Books Limited is a British publishing house.

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Peter Augustus Jay (diplomat)

Peter Augustus Jay (August 23, 1877 – October 18, 1933) was an American diplomat who served as U.S. General Consul to Egypt, U.S. Minister to El Salvador and Romania and U.S. Ambassador to Argentina.

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Phil Graham

Philip Leslie Graham (July 18, 1915 – August 3, 1963) was an American newspaperman.

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Richard Hauptmann

Bruno Richard Hauptmann (November 26, 1899 – April 3, 1936) was a German-born carpenter who was convicted of the abduction and murder of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the 20-month-old son of aviator Charles Lindbergh and his wife Anne Morrow Lindbergh.

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Richard Helms

Richard McGarrah Helms (March 30, 1913 – October 23, 2002) was an American government official and diplomat who served as Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) from 1966 to 1973.

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Robert E. Kintner

Robert Edmonds Kintner (September 12, 1909 – December 20, 1980) was an American journalist and television executive who served as president of both the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) and the American Broadcasting Company (ABC).

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Robert McNamara

Robert Strange McNamara (June 9, 1916 – July 6, 2009) was an American businessman and government official who served as the eighth United States secretary of defense from 1961 to 1968 under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson at the height of the Cold War. Joseph Alsop and Robert McNamara are 20th-century American memoirists.

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Roosevelt family

The Roosevelt family is an American political family from New York whose members have included two United States presidents, a First Lady, and various merchants, bankers, politicians, inventors, clergymen, artists, and socialites.

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South Vietnam

South Vietnam, officially the Republic of Vietnam (RVN; Việt Nam Cộng hòa; VNCH, République du Viêt Nam), was a country in Southeast Asia that existed from 1955 to 1975, the period when the southern portion of Vietnam was a member of the Western Bloc during part of the Cold War after the 1954 division of Vietnam.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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Stewart Alsop

Stewart Johonnot Oliver Alsop (May 17, 1914 – May 26, 1974) was an American newspaper columnist and political analyst. Joseph Alsop and Stewart Alsop are alsop family, Bulloch family, Burials at Indian Hill Cemetery, Connecticut Republicans, military personnel from Connecticut, Roosevelt family, Schuyler family and writers from Connecticut.

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Susan Mary Alsop

Susan Mary Alsop (Jay; June 19, 1918 – August 18, 2004) was an American writer and socialite active in Washington, D.C., political circles. Joseph Alsop and Susan Mary Alsop are alsop family.

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Syphilis

Syphilis is a sexually transmitted infection caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum subspecies pallidum.

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Taungoo

Taungoo (Tauñngu myoú;; also spelled Toungoo) is a district-level city in the Bago Region of Myanmar, 220 km from Yangon, towards the north-eastern end of the division, with mountain ranges to the east and west.

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The Columnist

The Columnist is a play by American playwright David Auburn.

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The Harvard Crimson

The Harvard Crimson is the student newspaper of Harvard University and was founded in 1873.

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The Saturday Evening Post

The Saturday Evening Post is an American magazine, currently published six times a year.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.

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Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919), often referred to as Teddy or T.R., was an American politician, soldier, conservationist, historian, naturalist, explorer and writer who served as the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909. Joseph Alsop and Theodore Roosevelt are Bulloch family, Roosevelt family and Schuyler family.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Alsop

Also known as Alsop, Joseph, Joe Alsop, Joseph W. Alsop, Joseph Wright Alsop.

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Burials at Indian Hill Cemetery

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