Word: nationalities
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...dangerous, and the foundation of legislative frauds-Decision of Speaker Blaine, Congressional Record 43, volume 3, part 3. p. 1734. (b) If the speaker can declare a quorum present when the roll call shows the contrary, he can declare a bill passed when the roll call shows the contrary-Nation, February...
...wealthy man and it was, for the construction of the house at Monticello and the improvements of the grounds, etc., cost over $400,000-a very large sum in those days Mr. Warren then drew a vivid picture of Mr. Jefferson's public life, his work for the nation as secretary of state, as vice-president, and as president, but through all the course of his political life he kept up to the end his interest in agriculture, hunting and fishing. And as he "believed in agriculture as first in utility and therefore first in mankind's respect," Thomas Jefferson...
...CRIMSON has been crowded with communications and leaders asking the overseers to make Washington's birthday a holiday. This year the request has been granted, much to the satisfaction of all college men. To suspend college exercises is a fitting observance of a day honored by the whole nation, and is a welcome rest in the long stretch of work from January $ to April...
...annexation of Alsace-Lorraine Bismarck linked the German nation against paying attention to the voice of the people. He declared later that it was a mistake for Alsace-Lorraine to be represented in the Reichstag, for it was not for the sake of inoculating the German parliament with a number of Frenchmen that Alsace Loraine was annexed...
...Bismarek's career depends their belief in the destiny of France. There are three great points in his foreign policy, the Danish, Austrian and French wars. In a study of his character, however, we must not look solely to his foreign policy but to his intercourse with his own nation...