He had bitterly opposed the nomination by the Democratic party of Grover Cleveland and tried to defeat him by throwing his own votes in Massachusetts and New York to the Republican candidate, James G. Blaine.

Stevens joined the United States Department of State and was appointed successively minister to Paraguay, Uruguay, Sweden and Norway, and finally to Hawaii, an appointment pushed by his old partner Blaine, who had risen to United States Secretary of State.

Garfield's appointment of Blaine as Secretary of State, and of Windom as Secretary of the Treasury, instead of Levi P. Morton, whose appointment Conkling had urged, angered Conkling and made him unwilling to agree to any sort of compromise with Garfield on the New York appointments.

It was reportedly his idea that Rick Blaine be portrayed as a chess player, which also served as a metaphor for the sparring relationship of the characters played by Bogart and Rains in the movie.

* In the 1942 film Casablanca, Captain Renault, a corrupt official played by Claude Rains recites the last two lines of the poem when talking to Rick Blaine, played by Humphrey Bogart, referring to his power in Casablanca.

The sessions began in June 1967, with the group ( except for Lee and Maclean ) replaced by well-known Los Angeles session musicians Billy Strange ( guitar ), Don Randi ( piano ), Hal Blaine ( drums ) and most likely Carol Kaye ( bass ).

Twain, encouraged by his friends who've already heard the story, finally finds the man in his cups to the proper degree, and Blaine, an old silver miner, sets out to tell Twain and his friends the tale.

Along the way, Blaine tells many stories, each of which connects back to the one before by some tenuous thread, and none of which has to do with the old ram.

The performers included: Laura Benanti, Matt Cavenaugh, Michael Cerveris, Victoria Clark, Jenn Colella, Jason Danieley, Alexander Gemignani, Joanna Gleason, Nathan Gunn, George Hearn, Patti LuPone, Marin Mazzie, Audra McDonald, John McMartin, Donna Murphy, Karen Olivo, Laura Osnes, Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters, Bobby Steggert, Elaine Stritch, Jim Walton, Chip Zien, the 2009 Broadway revival cast of West Side Story and a ballet performed by Blaine Hoven and Maria Riccetto set to Stephen Sondheim's score of Warren Beatty's Reds.

When asked by a reporter whether he would support Blaine, he replied, " That question I decline to answer.

Between his election and his inauguration, Garfield was occupied with assembling a cabinet that would establish peace between the warring factions of the Republican Party, led by U. S. Sen. Roscoe Conkling and James G. Blaine.

Rather than remain neutral, Blaine chose to side with Perurvian leader Fracisco G. Calderón, who had been appointed by the Chilean government.

Having concern over potential British military involvement in the war, on June 15, 1881, Blaine stressed that the conflict be resolved by consent of the Latin American countries involved and that the Peruvian government pay Chile an indemnity rather than cede the contested land.

Although Thomas C. Platt and other disaffected party leaders mounted a dump-Harrison movement coalescing around veteran candidate James G. Blaine of Maine, the president's forces had the nomination locked up by the time delegates met in Minneapolis on June 7-10, 1892.

On December 12, 1881, he was appointed United States Secretary of State by President Chester A. Arthur to succeed James G. Blaine, and served until the inauguration of President Grover Cleveland in 1885.

Meanwhile, Charles L. Webster & Co. issued a " fourth edition, revised, corrected, and complete " with the text of Sherman ’ s second edition, a new chapter prepared under the auspices of the Sherman family bringing the general ’ s life from his retirement to his death and funeral, and an appreciation by politician James G. Blaine ( who was related to Sherman's wife ).

A play by Gypsy Rose Lee entitled The Naked Genius ( 1943 ) was the inspiration for Doll Face ( 1945 ), a musical about a burlesque star ( Vivian Blaine ) who wants to become a legitimate actress.

In Magic Man, Blaine is shown traveling across the country, entertaining unsuspecting pedestrians in New York City, Atlantic City, Dallas, San Francisco, Compton, and the Mojave Desert recorded by a small crew with handheld cameras.

It is an impromptu magic trick, which has been popularized by many magicians, such as David Roth, Paul Harris, Alex Magic, and David Blaine.

The Aubrey – Maturin sea novels of Patrick O ' Brian have frequent appearances by Sir Joseph Blaine, a Royal Navy intelligence official who is also an avid entomologist.

* The Letter, a 2002 short film directed by Dylan Griffith starring Blaine Hogan

After Jake, Eddie, Susannah and Roland fruitlessly riddle Blaine the Mono for several hours, Eddie defeats the mad computer by telling childish jokes.

The ka-tet is eventually reunited at the Cradle of Lud, a train station which houses a monorail that the travelers use to escape Lud before its final destruction brought about by the monorail's artificial intelligence known as Blaine the Mono.

The novel ends with Blaine and Roland's ka-tet speeding through the Waste Lands, a radioactive land of mutated animals and ancient ruins created by something that is claimed to have been far worse than a nuclear war, on the way to Topeka-the end of the line.

* 1945: George Bancroft: Brahmin Rebel by Russel Blaine Nye

Major County is bounded by Woods and Alfalfa counties in the north, Garfield County on the east, Kingfisher, Blaine and Dewey on the south, and Woodward on the west, Major County has 957. 87 square miles of land and water.

As the 1876 Presidential election approached, Garfield was loyal to the candidacy of his House Speaker, James G. Blaine.

Since James G. Blaine moved from the House to the United States Senate, Garfield became the minority Republican floor leader of the House.

However, at the outset of the Republican convention, a deadlock ensued between supporters of former President Grant, James G. Blaine, and Sherman ; the delegates began to look to Garfield as an optimal compromise choice.

Blaine, however, encouraged and supported President Garfield.

On the 36th ballot, Garfield garnered 399 delegate votes, surpassing Grant ( who had 306 ), Blaine ( 42 ), and Sherman to win the nomination.

The county is divided into twenty-seven townships: Ash, Blaine, Collins, Cottonwood, Darlington, Day, Eden, Elrod, Fordham, Foxton, Garfield, Hague, Lake, Lincoln, Logan, Maydell, Merton, Mount Pleasant, Pleasant, Raymond, Richland, Rosedale, Spring Valley, Thorp, Warren, Washington, and Woodland.

The population distribution by township is as follows according to the 2000 census: Banner 54 ; Beaver 60 ; Blaine 60 ; Cedar 619 ; Center 2, 094 ; Cora 38 ; Crystal Plains 40 ; Dor 46 ; Garfield 33 ; German 34 ; Harlan 100 ; Harvey 130 ; Houston 206 ; Lane 134 ; Lincoln 73 ; Logan 47 ; Martin 24 ; Oak 399 ; Pawnee 35 ; Pleasant 34 ; Swan 42 ; Valley 75 ; Washington 63 ; Webster 47 ; White Rock 49.

During the James A. Garfield administration ( March 4 — September 19, 1881 ), the anglophobic Secretary of State James G. Blaine wanted to advance the US presence in Latin America.

His personal requests to Garfield and to cabinet members ( as one of many job seekers who lined up every day ) were continually rejected ; on May 14, 1881, he was finally told personally never to return by Secretary of State James G. Blaine ( Guiteau is actually believed to have encountered Blaine on more than one occasion ).

The convention, by a combination of the Blaine and Sherman interests, nominated James A. Garfield.

* Blaine, James G. Twenty Years of Congress: From Lincoln to Garfield.

Their grandson, Newell Garfield, later married Jane Harrison Walker, a granddaughter of President Benjamin Harrison and Harrison's second wife Mary Dimmick Harrison as well as the great-grandniece of James G. Blaine.

He wrote biographies of James G. Blaine, James A. Garfield, William Ewart Gladstone, and James Otis.

As you come into Mars Hill from twin town Blaine to the south, the name changes from Military Road to Main Street, and as you continue north across the Fort Street Bridge, the street becomes Fort Street.

The settlement became known as Grant Center, but because there was another post office with that name in Michigan at the time, it requested the name Blaine, after Republican U. S. Senator James G. Blaine.

Early settlement began around the mill built by James Blaine in 1778, from whom the borough took its name.

Phillip Laddy, a native of Ireland, is recognized as the first settler in Blaine and settled near a lake that now bears his name, Laddie Lake, in 1862.

Ripley, who had come to Minnesota from Maine, persuaded his fellow board members to name the new Township in honor of James G. Blaine, a Republican senator, Speaker of the House and three-time presidential candidate from Maine.

The film, a remake of a 1933 non-musical Will Rogers film of the same name, starred Jeanne Crain, Dana Andrews, Dick Haymes, and Vivian Blaine.

His first novel, This Side of Paradise, has several references to Baker: the main character is named Amory Blaine after Baker's middle name, and the minor character Allenby is Baker himself.

Still incapacitated and in a sanitarium, he adopts a civilian identity, Danny Blaine, the name of his favorite pulp hero on Xanthu.

Blaine County is the name of four counties in the United States:

Harrison ’ s Secretary of State James G. Blaine, who had resigned from the cabinet on June 4, 1892, on the eve of the convention, had his name submitted for consideration by the delegates, but drew little support.

According to Blaine, the name " The Wrecking Crew " was derived from the impression that he and the younger studio musicians made on the business's older generation, who felt that they were going to wreck the music industry.

The city also approved a change in a street name from Blaine Avenue to Harvey Milk Street.

The name Jefferson Davis Highway was removed as well as the remaining marker at the northern terminus at Blaine, by action of the Washington State legislature, thereby removing any linkage of Highway 99 to Jefferson Davis.

On occasion, he signed his work with his middle name, Blaine.

The Fartz original lineup in 1981 included vocalist Blaine Cook ( under the name " Blaine Fart "), guitarist Tommy Hansen ( who, along with Loud, was formerly of the Seattle band Kaos, not to be confused with the UK version with the same name ), bassist Steve Hoffman, and drummer Loud Fart.

The original idea was that the Fartz would simply change their name to 10 Minute Warning, but after one west coast tour with the Dead Kennedys, Blaine decided to quit and was replaced on vocals by Steve Swad ( formerly of The Swads ).

In 1966 he changed his name to Brian Blaine Reynolds, and founded the Academy of Achievement, bringing young people together with statesmen and Nobel Prize winners.

* Blaine Cook, stage name of Seattle punk singer