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As a Senator he had to answer to accusations of working with the fugitive Roberto Soto Prieto who had allegedly stolen $ 13. 5 million US dollars and with whom Laserna had connections in Austria through his work as Ambassador, at which time Soto Prieto was an alleged refugee in that country, and through alleged business deals in which Soto was found to be indirectly involved.
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Senator and had
The Senator had boxed them in with their own restrictions.
While a Senator, Kennedy had unsuccessfully pushed a bill to preserve the Belasco Theater, as well as the Dolley Madison and the Benjamin Taylor houses, all scheduled for razing.
State Senator Joseph A. Bertorelli ( D., First Baltimore ) had a stroke yesterday while in his automobile in the 200 block of West Pratt Street.
A year ago today, when the Democrats were fretting and frolicking in Los Angeles and John F. Kennedy was still only an able and ambitious Senator who yearned for the power and responsibility of the Presidency, Theodore H. White had already compiled masses of notes about the Presidential campaign of 1960.
there was much to grok, loose ends to puzzle over and fit into his growing -- all that he had seen and heard and been at the Archangel Foster Tabernacle ( not just cusp when he and Digby had come face to face alone ) why Bishop Senator Boone made him warily uneasy, how Miss Dawn Ardent tasted like a water brother when she was not, the smell of goodness he had incompletely grokked in the jumping up and down and wailing --
Senior Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois had incorporated popular sovereignty into the Act.
The U. S. Senate Select Committee chaired by Senator Frank Church ( the Church Committee ) reported in 1975 that it had found " concrete evidence of at least eight plots involving the CIA to assassinate Fidel Castro from 1960 to 1965.
Coolidge's grandmother Sarah Almeda Brewer had two famous first cousins: Arthur Brown, a United States Senator, and Olympia Brown, a women's suffragist.
Senator Daniel Inouye, a Democrat from Hawaii and chairman of the appropriations committee, said he initially had favored keeping Guantanamo open until Obama produced a " coherent plan for closing the prison.
While Elagabalus was still on his way to Rome, brief revolts broke out by the Fourth Legion at the instigation of Gellius Maximus, and the Third Legion, which itself had been responsible for the elevation of Elagabalus to the throne, under the command of Senator Verus.
Adams, as a Senator, had supported the Louisiana Purchase and Jefferson's Embargo Act, actions which made him very unpopular with Massachusetts Federalists.
In 1979, there was a large increase in conflict in the House Select Committee on Assassinations ( HSCA ) under Senator Richard Schweiker, which had re-opened the investigation into the assassination of President Kennedy, reported that Hoover's FBI " failed to investigate adequately the possibility of a conspiracy to assassinate the President ".
After the party nominated Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona instead, Robinson left the party's convention commenting that he now had " a better understanding of how it must have felt to be a Jew in Hitler's Germany ".
In an April 11, 2008, interview on the CNN Headline News Glenn Beck Show Voight stated that he had thrown his support to Republican Senator John McCain for President.
* 1856 – Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina beats Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate for a speech Sumner had made attacking Southerners who sympathized with the pro-slavery violence in Kansas (" Bleeding Kansas ").
Senator Stuart Symington of Missouri had threatened to have baseball's antitrust exemption revoked unless Kansas City was promptly granted another team.
The French minister said in 1793: " Senator Morris and Secretary of the Treasury Hamilton ... had the greatest influence over the President's mind, and that it was only with difficulty that he counterbalanced their efforts.
The media builds Bickle into a hero, when, had he been a little quicker drawing his gun against Senator Palantine, he would have been reviled as an assassin.
Sabinus married up in status, to Vespasia Polla, whose father had risen to prefect of the camp and whose brother became a Senator.
Though prominent as a Missouri Senator, Harry Truman had been Vice President only three months when he became President ; he was never informed of Franklin Roosevelt's war or postwar policies while Vice President.
Mrs. Harding and Katherine had become close friends since meeting in Hawaii, when Senator Harding and his wife were on vacation.
Wilson had tried to find a middle ground between conservative Republicans, led by Senator Nelson W. Aldrich, and the powerful left wing of the Democratic party, led by William Jennings Bryan, who strenuously denounced private banks and Wall Street.
* April 12 – By a vote of 45 – 41, the United States Senate unseats Iowa Senator Smith W. Brookhart and seats Daniel F. Steck, after Brookhart had already served for over one year.
Senator and answer
Ulam's answer to a question by Senator John O. Pastore at a congressional committee hearing, " Outer Space Propulsion by Nuclear Energy ", on January 22, 1958:
A crossword creator might choose to clue the answer SEN ( as in the abbreviation for " Senator ") as " Washington bigwig: Abbr.
Senator Nixon refused to answer further questions about the Fund, and attention turned to Stevenson's fund, especially as its details became clear.
He is interrupted by The Senator, who has come to alternately coax and threaten him into appearing before a committee to investigate his activities and answer the famous question, " Have you now or have you ever been ...?
In a favorite bit, he would mimic an ice-cold Michael Corleone facing down a crooked politician's demand for a cut of Mafia gambling profits: ' Senator, you can have my answer now if you like.
Senator and accusations
Opponents derided him as " the Senator from Boeing " and a " whore for Boeing " because of his consistent support for additional military spending on weapons systems and accusations of wrongful contributions from the company ; in 1965, eighty percent of Boeing's contracts were military.
In early strips, he regularly bothers Senator Bedfellow with ridiculous questions, asking for confirming accusations ( usually about the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa ), and attempting to convict him for virtually anything, although Bedfellow is not his only target.
The hearings of the United States Senate Special Committee to Investigate Crime in Interstate Commerce, chaired by Senator Estes Kefauver, brought to light the involvement of Florida public officials in gambling-related corruption involving numbers games and bolita, as well as accusations that Warren's 1948 campaign had been funded by organized criminals.
Butler received strong support from Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin, whose accusations of Communist infiltration into the State Department had been rejected by the Tydings Committee.
The hearings were held for the purpose of investigating conflicting accusations between the United States Army and Senator Joseph McCarthy.
In July 2005, the State Department opened an inquiry into Tomlinson's work at the Broadcasting Board of Governors, after Representative Howard L. Berman, Representative Tom Lantos and Senator Christopher Dodd forwarded accusations of misuse of money from an employee at the board.
During the 1950s under editor Roy L. Matson, the State Journal initially took a skeptical view of accusations made by Wisconsin Senator Joe McCarthy of communist infiltration of the U. S. State Department.
Senator and working
Senator Taft assisted the President greatly in working with the Old Guard, and was sorely missed when his death left Eisenhower with his successor William Knowland, whom Eisenhower disliked.
In the 2000 X-Men film, Kelly exclaims, " We must know who these mutants are and what they can do ," even brandishing a " list " of known mutants ( a reference to Senator Joseph McCarthy's list of Communist Party USA members who were working in the government ).
Sheffield is the birthplace of Arthur Alexander, " country-soul pioneer " and songwriter, French horn player Willie Ruff, notable attorney, actor, former senator and presidential contender Fred Thompson, Watergate committee U. S. Senator Howell Heflin and U. S. Senator Mitch McConnell, whose father was working in nearby Athens, AL, when he was born in Sheffield.
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In 2000, she began working as legal counselor for Fernando Martín García while he served as Senator.
Gaffney began his public service career in the 1970s, working as an aide in the office of Democratic Senator Henry M. Jackson, under Richard Perle.
However, he changed his plans and spent the summers of 1980 and 1982 working as an intern at the office of U. S. Senator David Durenberger.
Currently the co-chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Nuclear Threat Initiative ( NTI ), a charitable organization working to reduce the global threats from nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, Nunn served for 24 years as a United States Senator from Georgia ( 1972 until 1997 ) as a member of the Democratic Party.
Snowe entered politics and rose quickly, winning a seat on the Board of Voter Registration and working for Congressman ( later U. S. Senator and U. S. Secretary of Defense ) William Cohen.
During the 1930, he was active in German student organisations in the Autonomous Silesian Voivodeship of Poland, as a member of Senator Eduard Pant's Deutsche Christliche Volkspartei, a Catholic party working for the interests of the German minority in Poland.
To represent " labour " and the working class, Borden appointed to the Cabinet Conservative Senator Gideon Decker Robertson who had been appointed to the Senate in January and had links with the conservative wing of the labour movement through his profession as a telegrapher.
In his last years, Creel was a fervent anti-Communist, working with Senator Joseph McCarthy and Richard Nixon during the Red Scare of the late 1940s.
After working in several successful local elections in San Jose, California, in the mid-1970s Trippi joined the national campaign staff of Senator Edward Kennedy's presidential campaign in 1979.
In January 2012 the BBC reported that according to Senator Mary Ann O ' Brien, Ireland's Minister for Justice and Equality Alan Shatter was " actively working " on issuing the deserters with a pardon.
Gretchen is introduced as a very intelligent girl from Boston who, at the age of 19, has already completed her bachelors degree, and is working for Senator Eugene McCarthy's presidential campaign.
He served as an aide to Alaska Senator Bob Bartlett from 1963 to 1967 and then entered academia, working as a political science and public policy professor at Duke University from 1973 until his first campaign for Congress in 1986.
He had a reputation as a moderate Senator often working with Republicans on fiscal and military issues.
" Symington returns to the microphone and says: " Apparently every time anybody says anything against anybody working for Senator McCarthy, he is declaring them and accusing them of being Communists!
Besides having the normal Murderworld traps, Arcade also has Shocker and Rhino working for him, uses mind control to force Jean Grey to attack the heroes, captures Blade and Senator Kelly, and finally attacks the heroes himself in a giant robot called the Arcade-Bot.
As a Senator, Howard is credited with working closely with Abraham Lincoln in drafting and passing the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which abolished slavery.
Early in her career, Glover spent time working for Bill Kristol, Vice President Dan Quayle, former Senator and Energy Secretary Spence Abraham, conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly, and former Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina.
As a teenager he joined the campaign of Congressman Floyd Spence, later working as an aide to Senator Strom Thurmond.
After serving as an aide to U. S. Senator Terry Sanford and working in private practice in Asheville, North Carolina from 1997 to 2004, Thornburg was named to the North Carolina Court of Appeals in 2004.
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