Word: mansion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...senate in 1944, he organized legislators and other politicians in the Second Congressional District so effectively that when he announced for the House, the incumbent simply retired. As a Congressman, Clements laid the groundwork for his successful campaign for governor, then used his time in the governor's mansion to set up the campaign that put him in the Senate...
When the procession passed the presidential mansion, the mob shouted anti-Rhee slogans, wanted to carry Shinicky's body in to Rhee. Police fired over their heads. Under cover of a barrage of stones, about 300 demonstrators continued to advance. The guards lowered their rifles and fired a volley into the mob, wounding several. Police reinforcements soon ar rived, breaking up the biggest riot against Rhee since the end of the Korean...
...Watched his fourth grandchild, Mary Jean Eisenhower, four months, christened in the White House Blue Room in the first such ceremony at the executive mansion since Benjamin Harrison's granddaughter Mary Lodge McKee was baptized in the Red Room...
...Saws. At the Mansion House the elite of London's financial and industrial world was waiting to meet them. As they took their seats in the vast gold-columned Egyptian hall, they were serenaded by the Honorable Artillery Company band. Bulganin replied to toasts in a long, rambling speech which made the assembled capitalists fidget. When he quoted "an old Russian saying that Moscow was not built in a day," the hall rocked with laughter, without Bulganin having any idea what the joke was about...
Harking to his astrologer, Solomon West Ridgeway Diaz Bandaranaike selected high noon as the most auspicious hour to be sworn in as Ceylon's new Prime Minister. Before setting out in his ten-year-old Plymouth for the Georgian mansion of Governor-General Sir Oliver Goonetilleke in downtown Colombo, he faced the sun, to bring success to his venture. That afternoon at exactly eight minutes past 4, another auspicious hour, his new Cabinet of 12 scrambled for their cars and joined Bandaranaike at the mansion for a mass swearing-in ceremony. The Cabinet, at the Prime Minister...