Word: congress
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...more favored boy achieves in the best schools. And after a somewhat florid period of youth, his style of writing and speaking became extraordinarily simple and impressive. Lincoln's practice as a country lawyer, his repeated terms in the Legislature of Illinois and even his three years in Congress brought him little reputation; but all these experiences of course were unconscious preparation for the joint debate with Douglas in 1858, with which Lincoln's hour may be said to have struck. Yet it was not till after the Mason and Slidel affair that the country began to discover itself...
...place in New Haven on May 1, was suggested to the committee of the Yale Union by the meeting held Sunday, February 23, at which resolutions were adopted favoring the formation of a high court of international arbitration in accordance with the resolutions recently passed by both Houses of Congress and by the House of Commons...
...President's message is bad as to the substance of the policy laid down for this particular case.- (a) War between England and the United States would be an immeasurable calamity: Boston Herald, Dec. 19, 1895; Blaine, Twenty Years of Congress...
...Wednesday evening, January 22, at 7 o'clock, there will be a discussion at the Prospect Union, upon the following memorial to Congress...
...undersigued, voters of the State of Massachusetts, call upon Congress to enact such laws as will secure to the people a full legal tender national currency that shall be independent of the money dealers. As a first step, they call for a restriction of silver to its relative value to gold that it so long held in the exchanges of the world...