Word: robert
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Cobb was himself a Pennoyer scholar and is a descendant of Robert Pennoyer, who founded the fund...
Misogynist? In Milwaukee, County Auditor Robert Boos submitted the annual report of the annuity and pension board, commented, "There were fewer deaths among women service pensioners than expected. In other respects, however, the experience was favorable...
...Mate. In Tulare, Calif., when Robert Brown was refused a night's lodging in the city jail, he objected so violently that he was haled into court, sentenced to six months...
Background. Until 1917, the Senate had no real cloture rule. In March 1917 a band of eleven Senators led by Progressives Robert La Follette of Wisconsin and George Norris of Nebraska filibustered to death President Wilson's request for permission to arm U.S. merchantmen against German submarines.* When Wilson called the Senate into extraordinary session, an outraged majority, led by Montana's Democratic Senator Thomas J. Walsh, imposed a rule under which debate could be ended by two-thirds of the Senators voting. But the new rule had a fatal flaw: it provided a method for cloture...
...waste their money paying the police commissioner a salary. Hoffa would be the police commissioner, so why waste the money?" Said the hard-boiled Daily News: "Public opinion will approve overwhelmingly any steps-repeat any steps-Commissioner Kennedy may take to crush this attempt." At City Hall, Mayor Robert Wagner found his voice, pounded his desk, called Feinstein's announcement "dastardly" and a "disgrace," promised to fire Feinstein from his city job if he tried to unionize the cops. New York Lawyer Godfrey P. Schmidt, one of the three monitors appointed by the U.S. District Court last year...