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 ).

Senior Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois had incorporated popular sovereignty into the Act.

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.

Some eastern Republicans even favored the reelection of Douglas for the Senate in 1858, since he had led the opposition to the Lecompton Constitution, which would have admitted Kansas as a slave state.

Another French inventor by the name of Douglas Grasso had a failed prototype of Pierre Lallement's bicycle several years earlier.

When creating the murals Alston was inspired by the work of Aaron Douglas, who a year earlier had created the public art piece Aspects of Negro Life for the New York Public Library, and researched traditional African culture, including traditional African medicine.

Douglas ( and Atchison ) had assumed that Nebraska would be settled by Free-State men from Iowa and Illinois, and Kansas by pro-slavery Missourians and other Southerners, thus preserving the numerical balance between free states and slave states.

Historians such as Douglas Johnson and Arthur Marwick had roots here.

Chapman's memoir, A Liar's Autobiography, was published in 1980 and, unusually for a work of this type, had five authors: Chapman, his partner David Sherlock, Alex Martin, David Yallop and Douglas Adams.

By this time Mayhew had become reasonably secure financially, had settled his debts and married Jane Jerrold, the daughter of his friend Douglas Jerrold.

His son James II ( reigned 1437 – 1460 ), when he came of age in 1449, continued his father's policy of weakening the great noble families, most notably taking on the powerful Black Douglas family that had come to prominence at the time of the Bruce.

Douglas Baker wrote in one of his books that he had an astral journey to the inner earth where he observed a subterranean civilization.

The internal telegraph system was extended within a year to Castletown and Peel, however by then the previous lack of modern communications in Castletown had already started the Isle of Man Government on its move to Douglas.

This release, however, was missing The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Shogun because the licenses from Douglas Adams ' and James Clavell's estates had expired.

In October 1990, Major and Douglas Hurd, Major's successor as Foreign Secretary, finally persuaded Thatcher to allow Britain to join the Exchange Rate Mechanism, a move which she had resisted for some years, and which had been a cause of her quarrels with Howe and Lawson.

Douglas then decided he wanted to work with Burt Lancaster, with whom he had just costarred in another film.

Joe soon had a younger brother, Douglas, and two younger sisters, Marilyn and Leonie.

In 1845 Douglas, serving in his first term in the United States House of Representatives, had submitted an unsuccessful plan to formally organize the Nebraska Territory as the first step in building a railroad with its eastern terminus in Chicago.

Iowa Sen. Augustus C. Dodge immediately reintroduced the same legislation to organize Nebraska that had stalled in the previous session ; it was referred to Douglas ’ s committee on December 14.

Douglas, hoping to achieve the support of the Southerners, publicly announced that the same principle that had been established in the Compromise of 1850 should apply in Nebraska.

In the Compromise of 1850, Utah and New Mexico Territory had been organized without any restrictions on slavery, and many supporters of Douglas argued that this compromise had already superseded the Missouri Compromise.

The bill had been significantly modified by Douglas, who had also authored the New Mexico and Utah territorial acts, to mirror the language from the Compromise of 1850.

In 1998, Van Dam turned face and started a feud with Triple Threat ( Shane Douglas, Bam Bam Bigelow, and Chris Candido ).

Justice Frankfurter was in his time the leader of the conservative faction of the Supreme Court ; he would for many years feud with liberals like Justices Black and Douglas.

He entered into a short feud with Shane Douglas that led to a tables match between them at The Great American Bash, which Douglas won.

The team of Steamboat and Douglas had a long feud with The Hollywood Blondes (" Stunning " Steve Austin and " Flyin '" Brian Pillman ), often wearing identical body suits and masks and calling themselves " Dos Hombres ".

After finding himself unsuccessful in his title shots, he began a feud with 2 Cold Scorpio, based on Douglas ' lack of respect for the World Television Championship.

Douglas, with Francine, went on to feud with Pitbull # 2 for the rest of 1996 and, by year's end, reformed the Triple Threat with new members Chris Candido and " Primetime " Brian Lee before later adding Bam Bam Bigelow when Lee left ECW.

Under his Shane Douglas ring name, he immediately reignited his feud with Raven.

When this feud ran down, Douglas broke away from The New Church and began a quest, alongside his new valet Tracy, to find " The New Franchise ".

After the feud with Steamboat and Douglas ended, they went on to feud with The Four Horsemen, mainly Ric Flair and Arn Anderson, mocking their ages and parodying Flair's interview show " A Flair for the Gold ", with their own " A Flair for the Old ".

Although he did not wrestle for ECW, Pillman made several further appearances with the promotion, engaging in a war of words with Douglas, setting up a proposed feud.

In the course of the feud, Austin was given on-screen credit for damaging Pillman's ankle in October 1996 after placing it in between the seat and backrest of a folded chair and then jumping on the chair ( this particular style of attack has since been dubbed " The Pillmanizer ," in honor of this incident, despite Shane Douglas performing exactly the same maneuver to Raven in ECW nearly a full year earlier ).

After the New Blood split up, Kidman became a face once more by entering a feud with Shane Douglas for the affection of his on-screen girlfriend, Torrie Wilson.

Following the Douglas feud, Kidman began teaming with Mysterio again.

Also, he was apart in the three way dance for the ECW World Heavyweight Championship at The Night the Line Was Crossed, against Terry Funk and Shane Douglas, which went to a one hour time limit draw and his tag team feud with The Public Enemy in which Sabu and his partner The Tazmaniac captured the ECW World Tag Team Championship in a double tables match.

The play was also performed in New York and was due to go on tour when Wilde was arrested and charged with indecency and sodomy following his feud with the Marquess of Queensberry over the Marquess ' son, Lord Alfred Douglas.

Lord Maxwell was also at feud with the powerful Clan Douglas over the Earldom of Morton, which he regarded as his inheritance.

His best known running feud has been with the Isle of Man ever since his first review in The Sunday Times of 22 January 2006 of Ciappelli's restaurant in Douglas also included a critique of the island which, Gill wrote, had: managed to slip through a crack in the space-time continuum ... fallen off the back of the history lorry to lie amnesiac in the road to progress ... its main industry is money ( laundering, pressing, altering and mending )... everyone you actually see is Benny from Crossroads or Benny in drag ....

Following the end of their feud with the Soldiers, the Rednecks made their final pay-per-view appearance at Road Wild on August 14, where Duncum, Barry and Hennig lost to the Revolution ( Dean Malenko, Perry Saturn and Shane Douglas ) in a six-man tag team match.

When the duo returned, Candido re-aligned with Shane Douglas ' Triple Threat, and Sytch began a feud with Douglas's manager Francine.

Before WCW's collapse, she engaged in a brief feud with Torrie Wilson and Shane Douglas, who defeated her and partner Billy Kidman at Fall Brawl in a Mixed Tag Team Scaffold match.

Following this feud, Lane and Eaton began having issues with a young new team in the NWA known as " the Dynamic Dudes " ( Shane Douglas and Johnny Ace ).