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Realizing Clay was unlikely to win the presidency, Lincoln, who had pledged in 1846 to serve only one term in the House, supported General Zachary Taylor for the Whig nomination in the 1848 presidential election.
At the suggestion of his friend Benjamin Ruff, Carnegie's partner Henry Clay Frick had formed the exclusive South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club high above Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
Carnegie tried to keep this information concealed, but legal document released in 1900, during proceeding with the ex-chairman of Carnegie Steel Henry Clay Frick revealed how favorable the tariffs had been.
" The directive comported with the view of General Lucius D. Clay and the Joint Chief of Staff over growing communist influence in Germany, as well as of the failure of the rest of the European economy to recover without the German industrial base on which it previously had been dependent.
Duck Hunt, Clay Shooting mode appears as the second round with the first round being the two duck variation ( the arcade version never had one duck ).
When Adams appointed Clay as Secretary of State — the position that Adams and his three predecessors had held before becoming president — Jacksonian Democrats were outraged, and claimed that Adams and Clay had struck a " corrupt bargain.
Though Jackson had won the popular vote, neither he nor any of the other candidates ( John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, and William H. Crawford ) had won a majority of the electoral vote.
The House of Representatives then had to select the verdict ; Clay, who had received the least amount of electoral votes and dropped from the ballot, supported Adams.
His father bought him a cheap printing press ; which, with the help of his younger brother Henry ( Harry ) Clay Baum, with whom he had always been close, he used to produce The Rose Lawn Home Journal.
After winning the heavyweight championship, Clay announced that he had joined the Nation of Islam.
While officials in Washington, D. C. thought the project had merit, and Secretary of State Henry Clay formally presented it to the Congress of the United States in 1826, the plan was not approved.
New England also had a solid secondary, led by defensive backs Willie Clay ( 72 tackles, 1 fumble recovery.
Clay had endorsed Adams for the Presidency ; the endorsement carried additional weight because Clay was the Speaker of the House.
Clay was the unquestioned leader of the Whig party nationwide and in Washington, but he was vulnerable to Jacksonian allegations that he associated with the upper class at a time when white males without property had the right to vote and wanted someone more like themselves.
The Compromise of 1850 had been first proposed by the Whig Henry Clay of Kentucky.
* In Life of Henry Clay, Carl Schurz notes that “ his fondness for card-playing, which, although in his early years he had given up games of chance, still led him to squander but too much time upon whist .”
Bessemer licensed the patent for his process to four ironmasters, for a total of £ 27, 000, but the licensees failed to produce the quality of steel he had promised — it was " rotten hot and rotten cold ", according to his friend, William Clayand he later bought them back for £ 32, 500.
Jefferson's son-in-law, former Virginia Governor Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., said in 1826 that Jefferson had a " strong repugnance " to Henry Clay.

Clay and come
* United States Secretary of State James F. Byrnes Stuttgart speech, September 6, 1946 The speech was according to General Clay based on the letter Clay had sent Byrnes urging him to come to Stuttgart.
Aiken worked with the Make a Wish Foundation to make one little boy's dream of singing on stage with Clay Aiken come true.
The soldiers sang many songs during the March, but it is one written afterward that has come to symbolize the campaign: Marching Through Georgia, written by Henry Clay Work in 1865.
During his famous Ich bin ein Berliner-speech Kennedy said: " I am proud (...) to come here in the company of my fellow American, General Clay, who has been in this city during its great moments of crisis and will come again if ever needed.
In Feet of Clay, Angua helps encourage Cheery to " come out " as a woman ( dwarf society expects both male and female dwarves to behave in an indistinguishable way ), even lending her dresses and make-up.
The era saw a nationalizing trend that envisioned “ a permanent federal role in the crucial arena of national development and national prosperity .” Monroe ’ s predecessor, President James Madison, and the Republican Party, had come to appreciate – through the crucible of war – the expediency of Federalist institutions and projects, and prepared to legislate them under the auspices of John C. Calhoun and Henry Clay ’ s American System.

Clay and fourth
It was a close fight for Fittipaldi who secured the title with a fourth at the season-ending United States Grand Prix, putting him three points ahead of Ferrari's Clay Regazzoni.
In the dying seconds of the fourth round, Cooper felled Clay with an upward angled version of his trademark left hook, " Enry's ' Ammer ".
Koosman returned to the rotation at the end of the month and on May 28, after a five-game losing streak that saw the Mets fall into fourth place in the newly aligned National League East, Koosman and the San Diego Padres ' Clay Kirby engaged in a pitchers ' duel at Shea.
Key examples of this from American Idol include Clay Aiken ( second place, season 2 ) and Chris Daughtry ( fourth place, season 5, through his band Daughtry ), who have each outsold all American Idol winners except Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood ; Jennifer Hudson ( seventh place, season 3 ), who would later win the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress ; and William Hung, who turned his off-key season 3 audition into a recording career and has outsold some finalists.
Born Robert Clay Allison, he was the fourth of the nine children of Jeremiah Scotland Allison and his wife Mariah R. Brown.
During the fourth round, Clay coasted, keeping his distance.
Clay Regazzoni's Ferrari thrilled the crowd by surging forward from the fourth row to lead from Jo Siffert and Stewart until lap 3, when Ronnie Peterson took the lead.
By contrast, Clay Regazzoni starting from fourth made a good start from the second row, and attempted to take the lead from Lauda at the first corner.
Hans-Joachim Stuck was fourth in his March ahead of Clay Regazzoni, Jacques Laffite, Carlos Pace, Jody Scheckter, Jochen Mass and Carlos Reutemann.
Emerson Fittipaldi and Clay Regazzoni went into the last race of the World Championship level on points, but Regazzoni dropped down the field with handling problems, so Fittipaldi's fourth place gave him the championship.
On May 28, after a five game losing streak that saw the Mets fall into fourth place in the newly aligned National League East, Jerry Koosman and the San Diego Padres ' Clay Kirby engaged in a pitchers ' duel at Shea Stadium.
Lopes would add a three-run shot in the fourth off Ken Clay to make it 6 – 0.
The fourth album and most commercial work yet, Getaway ( Sony ) was released in 2000, and was produced by Al Clay, who has also produced for the Pixies and Stereophonics.
Returning students, some of whom are attending the program for the third or even fourth time, typically take advanced courses sponsored by the Clay Mathematics Institute participate in a Research Lab, although all courses and labs are open to all students.
The Clay People is The Clay People's fourth full-length release, and their most successful.
It was the first no-hitter thrown by a Red Sox left-handed pitcher since Mel Parnell in, the first in MLB since Clay Buchholz's September 2007 no-hitter, and the MLB-record fourth no-hitter caught by Jason Varitek.
Just as Clay Buchholz's no-hitter was preserved by a diving play by rookie second baseman Dustin Pedroia, Lester's was preserved by a diving catch by rookie center fielder Jacoby Ellsbury to end the fourth inning.
Clay was the fourth of six brothers and sisters.

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