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In 1867 entrepreneur Joseph McCoy selected this Kansas town as the railhead for Tex. cattle drives

In 1949 he presented his "Fair Deal" as part of his State of the Union address

The U.S. blockade of this country was made public October 22, 1962

When these people struck in Boston, Coolidge said, "There is no right to strike against the public safety by anyone"

In 1851 students at VMI couldn't stonewall this professor of natural & experimental philosophy

Marcus Garvey, born on this island nation in 1887, was deported back there by the U.S. in 1927

The Who performed this work at the Metropolitan Opera House in Lincoln Center in 1970

Dvorak's "New World Symphony" debuted in this venue in 1893: the Beatles played there in 1964

(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from a street corner in the Bronx, New York.) The Belmonts, named for the Belmont area of the Bronx, sang in this style, the street version of a cappella

She co-wrote "The Loco-Motion" in the Brill Building on Broadway