Word: britain
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Conference has also resulted in much practical good work of a non-sectarian kind, such as visiting the poor, etc. A Church Congress has been formed in Great Britain to carry on this work on a larger scale. Another result has been the united action of all the English churches at a recent election in securing the use of the bible in the English common schools...
...capacity of Attorney General of the United States, Judge Hoar served on President Grant's Cabinet in the year 1869-70, and the following year he was a member of the Joint High Commission which negotiated the treaty of Washington with Great Britain. Two years later he served one term as a member of Congress...
...Minnesota v. Barber 136 U. S. 313; Kninish v. Ball, 129 U. S. 677. - (b) This is a proper subject of commerce: U. S. v. Eaton, 114 U. S. 677. - (1) So implied by U. S. Law of 1886. - (x) Regulation is sanction. - (2) So viewed in Great Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Denmark: Mass. Board of Health...
Encouraging letters keep coming from the captains of the English crews and others with assurances that nothing will be left undone which can minister to the comfort and pleasure of the Cornell crew. There seems to be much interest in Great Britain over the coming of the crew. Letters have recently been received from the authorities of some of the best crews in Ireland announcing that it is their intention to arrange the dates of their regattas so that it will be possible for the Cornell crew to compete in them after the race at Henley. The Irish crews...
...Clayton - Bulwer Treaty forbids such action. - (a) Treaty still in force. - (1) Asserted by Great Britain in 1881: For Rel., 1881, p.549. - (2) By U. S. in 1873: Rodrigue's, 212. - (3) Nothing subsequent to render treaty void: Nation, XXXIX, 496; Hall, 290 - 5. - (b) Great Britain will not give up treaty. - (1) Interests vitally at stake: Sat. Rev., LVIII...