civic virtue, a prerequisite for social progress
Two million New Yorkers gave Admiral George Dewey the city’s first ticker-tape parade on September 30, 1899.
His flagship, the USS Olympia, had just returned to New York Harbor after defeating the Spanish fleet i…
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