They, perhaps, gave the pitch of their position in the preface where it was said that Eisenhower requested that the Commission be administered by the American Assembly of Columbia University, because it was non-partisan.

If this seems arbitrary, its effect was to treat citizens of the District of Columbia equally with citizens of the states -- at the expense of expanding a troublesome jurisdiction.

Alexis Carrel was also a member of learned societies in the U. S., Spain, Russia, Sweden, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Vatican City, Germany, Italy and Greece and received honorary doctorates from Queen's University of Belfast, Princeton University, California, New York, Brown University and Columbia University.

It was recorded in St. Paul's, the chapel at Columbia University, chosen for the acoustics.

Situated near the mouth of the Columbia River, the city was named after the American investor John Jacob Astor.

British explorer David Thompson was the first European to navigate the entire length of the Columbia River in 1811.

In the years following the Revolution the poetic device " Columbia " was used as a symbol of both Columbus and America, King's College of New York changed its name in 1792 to Columbia, and the new capitol in Washington was subtitled District of Columbia.

The earliest known personification of what would become the United States was " Columbia " who first appeared in 1738 and sometimes was associated with Liberty.

She was admitted to the District of Columbia Bar in 1980 and began her law career as an associate with the Washington, D. C. firm of Wald, Harkrader & Ross.

The concert was recorded by Columbia Records, preserving for the first time musical passages and numbers not included on the original Broadway cast recording.

On February 11, 2010, he was rushed to Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York City after complaining of chest pains, and had two coronary stents implanted in his heart.

The province's name was chosen by Queen Victoria when the Colony of British Columbia, i. e. " the Mainland ", became a British colony in 1858.

It refers to the Columbia District, the British name for the territory drained by the Columbia River, in southeastern British Columbia, which was the namesake of the pre-Oregon Treaty Columbia Department of the Hudson's Bay Company.

Queen Victoria chose British Columbia to distinguish what was the British sector of the Columbia District from that of the United States (" American Columbia " or " Southern Columbia "), which became the Oregon Territory in 1848 as a result of the treaty.

British Columbia was considered to be a settled colony and therefore received English law automatically, under the principle set out by Blackstone.

DiVincenzo sued and settled, many years after, with Columbia Pictures over the appropriation of what he considered his story.

First settled in 1805, administered by Hudson's Bay Company from 1821, until incorporated as the Colony of British Columbia in 1858.

When Turner's father died in 1932, he moved to Canada with his Canadian-born mother, and settled in her childhood home in Rossland, British Columbia.

Spurred by a sudden influx of settlers crossing the Susquehanna and the licensing and formal beginning of the Wright's Ferry ferry services early in the year, acting on behalf of Maryland as a henchman of Lord Baltimore, Thomas Cresap starting in mid-1730, began confiscating the newly settled farms near Peach Bottom and Columbia, Pennsylvania ( thenunnamed, but soon would be called " Wright's Ferry "), for the question from Lord Baltimore, was who was to get the income from the lands.

His family moved to Surrey, British Columbia, in 1966, then settled in Port Coquitlam in 1968.

) When Polk moved to terminate the joint occupation agreement, the British finally agreed to divide the region along the 49th parallel in early 1846, keeping the lower Columbia basin as part of the United States, and the dispute was settled by the Oregon Treaty of 1846, which the administration was able to sell to congress because the United States was about to begin the Mexican-American war, and the president and others argued it would be foolish to also fight the British Empire.

Numerous personnel stationed at Fort Gordon eventually settled in Columbia County.

However, RCA lost the Philadelphia Orchestra during this period ; when Columbia Records settled quickly with the union, Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphians signed a new contract with Columbia and began making recordings in 1944.

The boundary of British Columbia with Washington Territory was settled by arbitration in 1872, and with Alaska by arbitration in 1903.

In 1923 she settled in New York, appearing at cabarets and speakeasies there ; that same year she made the first of her commercially successful series of gramophone recordings for Columbia Records, for whom she would continue recording through to 1932.

Hawaiian family that settled in British Columbia, ca.

* On November 4, 2004, the Securities and Exchange Commission “ filed a settled civil action in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia against Wachovia Corporation ( Wachovia ) for violations of proxy disclosure and other reporting requirements in connection with the 2001 merger between First Union Corporation ( First Union ) and Old Wachovia Corporation ( Old Wachovia ).

He ultimately settled in Victoria, British Columbia.

He returned from the front and settled in Columbia, South Carolina, to become associate editor of the newspaper, The South Carolinian.

He eventually settled in British Columbia, where he attended the British Columbia Institute of Technology and became a certified electrical and electronics engineering technician.

With the end of the last glacial advance, the Columbia settled into its present course.

She studied at the Columbia University School of the Arts and started writing about life in New York City, where she had settled down.

* Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation ( one group of culturally Lower Kootenay of the Arrow Lakes Area affiliated with the Senijextee ( also known as Arrow Lakes Band or The Lakes ), an Interior Salish people, after a war the greater part of the Lower Kootenay moved to Kootenay Lake in British Columbia, the remaining banded together with the Senijextee as one tribe and settled together with the other eleven historic tribes onto the Colville Indian Reservation in the Columbia Basin in northern Washington to form the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, ca.

The Afghan Whigs settled their dispute with Elektra and signed with Sony / Columbia in April 1998.

Following the war, he settled in British Columbia in 1919, and ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia.

Racial Segregation in Canada, particularly British Columbia, was widespread during colonial times and continued through the 1950s.

Columbia was successfully launched on April 12, 1981, the 20th anniversary of the first human spaceflight ( Vostok 1 ), and returned on April 14, 1981, after orbiting the Earth 36 times, landing on the dry lakebed runway at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

An international vehicle ferry crosses the Strait from Port Angeles, Washington to Victoria, British Columbia several times each day, as do passenger ferries of the Washington State Ferry system, a seasonal private ferry connecting Port Angeles with Victoria and a private high-speed ferry between Victoria and Seattle.

The total area of the islands is about 691 square kilometers, or about four times the size of the District of Columbia.

Like Columbia, Britannia became a very potent and more common figure in times of war, and represented British liberties and democracy.

Physiographically, Whatcom County is an extension of the Fraser Valley or " Lower Mainland " area of British Columbia, which is essentially the lowland delta plain of the Fraser River-at some times in the past one of the Fraser River's lower arms entered Bellingham Bay near Bellingham via what is now the mouth of the Nooksack River.

The Point of Fork ( near Columbia where the James and Rivanna rivers meet ) was the site of a major Monacan village of the Native Americans in pre-colonial times.

Amtrak Cascades trains, operating as far north as Vancouver, British Columbia and as far south as Eugene, Oregon, serve Centralia several times daily in both directions.

Harvey was married three times: in 1957 to actress Margaret Leighton, whom he divorced in 1961 ; in 1968 to Joan Perry Cohn, the widow of film mogul Harry Cohn of ( Columbia Pictures ); and to Paulene Stone.

* British Columbia from the earliest times to the present, Vol 2, Chapter XXXII-Chinese and Japanese Immigration, E. O. S.

Chrétien only spent parts of nine days campaigning in the West, including only two stops in the province of Alberta, both in the city of Edmonton while visiting the province of British Columbia only three times, and only in the cities of Victoria and Vancouver.

Even in 1923, well into the period of his decline, 479, 300 people attended the 79 meetings of the six-week 1923 Columbia, South Carolina, campaign — 23 times the white population of Columbia.

On election day, polling times were arranged to allow results from most provinces to be announced more or less simultaneously, with the exception of Atlantic Canada, whose results were known before the close of polling in other provinces due to the British Columbia Supreme Court's decision in R. v. Bryan.

This species is in decline due to loss of habitat ; the bird's range has shrunk in historical times, having been extirpated from British Columbia, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Arizona and New Mexico.

* Louis Armstrong & Earl Hines: inc. " Weatherbird ", " Muggles ", " Tight Like This ", " West End Blues ": Columbia 1928: reissued many times inc. as The Smithsonian Collection MLP 2012

This periodical, first a monthly and later a weekly, was published successively in Ohio, Tennessee, Maryland, the District of Columbia and Pennsylvania, though it appeared irregularly, and at times, when Lundy was away on lecturing tours, was issued from any office that was accessible to him.

In Mr. Magoo, the UPA theatrical animated short series for Columbia Pictures, Butler voiced the part of Magoo's nephew Waldo ( also voiced by Jerry Hausner at various times ).

It eventually arrived at the Columbia Hills, however, and rocks examined in that region show that the Columbia Hills did have small amounts of briny ( salty ) water interacting with them in ancient times, though nowhere near as much as Meridiani Planum, the landing area for Spirit's twin, Opportunity.

The periodic rupturing of the ice dam resulted in the Missoula Floods – cataclysmic floods that swept across Eastern Washington and down the Columbia River Gorge approximately 40 times during a 2, 000 year period.

* Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia ( APEGBC ): All members in the association's code of Ethics must ensure that government, the public can rely on BC's professional engineers and Geoscientists to act at all times with fairness, courtesy and good faith to their employers, employee and customers, and to uphold the truth, honesty and trustworthiness, and to safe guard human life and the environment.

They found hard times on the Snake River in southern Idaho, where they lost some goods and most of their food, and were forced to cache the rest of their trade goods and divided into fractions to make their way to the Columbia.

* British Columbia from the earliest times to the present, Vol 2, Chapter XXXI-Alaska Boundary Dispute, E. O. S.