Douglas ' provision, which Lincoln opposed, specified settlers had the right to determine locally whether to allow slavery in new U. S. territory, rather than have such a decision restricted by the national Congress.

The stage was then set for the campaign for statewide election of the Illinois legislature which would, in turn, select Lincoln or Douglas as its U. S. senator.

Douglas said that Lincoln was defying the authority of the U. S. Supreme Court and the Dred Scott decision.

As reported in the Third Edition of Science and Sanity, The U. S. Army in World War II used Korzybski's system to treat battle fatigue in Europe with the supervision of Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, who went on to become the psychiatrist in charge of the Nazi prisoners at Nuremberg.

After considerable development and test firings in the U. S. and Canada, Douglas abandoned development in 1956.

The same year saw the release of " Kung Fu Fighting ", performed by Carl Douglas and produced by Biddu, which reached # 1 in both the U. K. and U. S., and became the best-selling single of the year and one of the best-selling singles of all time with eleven million records sold worldwide, helping to popularize disco music to a great extent.

* In 1952, A. S. Douglas developed OXO, a version of noughts and crosses ( tic-tac-toe ) for the EDSAC, with graphical output to a cathode ray tube.

The talks were named after U. S. Treasury Secretary and former Under Secretary of State, Douglas Dillon, who first proposed the talks.

* Douglas, Paul S. The Material Culture of the Harmony Society.

JPL has been recognized four times by the Space Foundation: with the Douglas S. Morrow Public Outreach Award, which is given annually to an individual or organization that has made significant contributions to public awareness of space programs, in 1998 ; and with the John L. " Jack " Swigert, Jr., Award for Space Exploration on three occasions – in 2009 ( as part of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Team ), 2006 and 2005.

* Wiles, Gary J .; Johnson, Nathan C .; de Cruz, Justine B .; Dutson, Guy ; Camacho, Vicente A .; Kepler, Angela Kay ; Vice, Daniel S .; Garrett, Kimball L .; Kessler, Curt C. & Pratt, H. Douglas ( 2004 ): New and Noteworthy Bird Records for Micronesia, 1986 – 2003.

* 1951 – The United States Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees begin their closed door hearings into the dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur by U. S. President Harry Truman.

Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter, published in 1979, discusses the ideas of self-reference and strange loops, drawing on a wide range of artistic and scientific work, including the art of M. C. Escher and the music of J. S. Bach, to illustrate ideas behind Gödel's incompleteness theorems.

On May 3, 1952, U. S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Joseph O. Fletcher and Lieutenant William Pershing Benedict, along with scientist Albert P. Crary, landed a modified Douglas C-47 Skytrain at the North Pole.

Douglas L. Holt, the State Extension Specialist for Food Safety at the University of Missouri, notes that no reported cases of potato-source solanine poisoning have occurred in the U. S. in the last 50 years, and most cases involved eating green potatoes or drinking potato-leaf tea.

* Freeman, Douglas S., Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command ( 3 volumes ), Scribners, 1946, ISBN 0-684-85979-3.

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This happened in the majority opinion by Justice William O. Douglas in Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U. S. 479, 484 ( 1965 ) which cited the amendment as implying a belief that an individual's home should be free from agents of the state.

Douglas joined the majority opinion of the U. S. Supreme Court in Roe, which stated that a federally enforceable right to privacy, " whether it be founded in the Fourteenth Amendment's concept of personal liberty and restrictions upon state action, as we feel it is, or, as the District Court determined, in the Ninth Amendment's reservation of rights to the people, is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy.

In 1892, the school's name was changed to the University of Utah, and John R. Park began arranging to obtain land belonging to the U. S. Army's Fort Douglas on the east bench of the Salt Lake Valley, where the university moved permanently in 1900.

OXO, a graphical version of tic-tac-toe, was created by A. S. Douglas in 1952 at the University of Cambridge, in order to demonstrate his thesis on human-computer interaction.

According to author, Douglas Brinkley, President Harding came to the most northern U. S. territory in order to " open up Alaska lands " for oil, mining, and timber development and industry.

* April 5 – Douglas MacArthur, U. S. Army general, Supreme Allied Commander in the Pacific during World War II ( b. 1880 )

** U. S. President Harry S Truman relieves General Douglas MacArthur of his Far Eastern commands.

Repeated efforts -- beginning with the Missouri Compromise of 1821 -- were made by such master moderates as Clay and Douglas to resolve the difference peacefully by compromise, rather than clear thought and timely action.

Katherine Douglas King '' The invitation was accepted and other letters followed, in which she spoke of her concern for his health and her delight in seeing him so much at home among the crippled children she served.

When the stock exchange opened this morning, many dealers were quick to purchase shares in Douglas, Lockheed and United Aircraft and prices rose substantially.

-- The granting of the Jan Masaryk award August 13 to Senator Paul Douglas is a bitter example of misleading minorities.

Douglas has consistently voted to aid the people who killed Masaryk, and against principles Masaryk died to uphold.

Douglas has voted for aid to Communists and for the destruction of individual freedom ( public housing, foreign aid, etc. ).

-- I concur most heartily with today's letter on the futility of writing to Sen. Dirksen and Sen. Douglas.

However, last night the tapes were not run at all during the evening hours and all we got on TV were a few snatches which Douglas Edwards and Huntley and Brinkley could squeeze into their programs.

In the upper center of Braque's first collage, Fruit Dish ( in Douglas Cooper's collection ), a bunch of grapes is rendered with such conventionally vivid sculptural effect as to lift it practically off the picture plane.

Willow Run, General Electric's enormous installations at Louisville and Syracuse, the Pentagon, Boeing in Seattle, Douglas and Lockheed in Los Angeles, the new automobile assembly plants everywhere -- none of these is substantially served by any sort of conventional mass rapid transit.

Thomas Douglas, fifth Earl of Selkirk, a noble humanitarian Scot concerned with the plight of the crofters of his native Highlands, conceived a plan to settle them in the valley of the Red River of the North.

By October the little colony about Fort Douglas ( present-day Winnipeg ) numbered 100.

The new site was somewhat warmer than Fort Douglas and much closer to the great herds of buffalo on which the settlement must depend for food.

In 1819 grasshoppers again destroyed the crop at `` the Forks '' ( Fort Douglas ) and in December 1819, twenty men left Fort Daer for the most northerly American outpost at Prairie Du Chien.

They reached Fort Douglas in June 1820.

Secretary of the Treasury Douglas Dillon owns a prize Monet, Femmes dans un Jardin.

Douglas M. Pratt, president of the PTC, who attended the meeting, said the transit company is reviewing the work on the El.

Members of the committee include Mrs. Milton Bernet, Mrs. J. Clinton Bowman, Mrs. Rollie W. Bradford, Mrs. Samuel Butler Jr., Mrs. Donald Carr Campbell, Mrs. Douglas Carruthers, Mrs. John C. Davis 3,, Mrs. Cris Dobbins, Mrs. William E. Glass, Mrs. Alfred Hicks 2,, Mrs. Donald Magarrell, Mrs. Willett Moore, Mrs. Myron Neusteter, Mrs. Richard Gibson Smith, Mrs. James S. Sudier 2, and Mrs. Thomas Welborn.

The latest death reported was that of 4-year-old Claude Douglas Maynor of Calvary.

Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon said the economy is expected to advance by a whopping 8% next year, paving the way for lower taxes.

On the Latin American front, the President held talks with Secretary of the Treasury Douglas Dillon before sending him to Uruguay and the Inter-American Economic and Social Council ( which the President himself had originally hoped to attend ).

Still more time was consumed while the pilot, at the radioed suggestion of Continental president Robert Six, tried to persuade the armed pair to swap the Boeing jet for a propeller-driven Douglas Aj.

A colossal campaign opened to sell more sexual organs of plants and Mrs. Joseph ( `` Shadow of Greatness '' ) Douglas was quoted as saying: `` I would no more sit down without flowers on my table than without serviettes ''.

After a series of debates in 1858 that gave national visibility to his opposition to the expansion of slavery, Lincoln lost a Senate race to his arch-rival, Stephen A. Douglas.