Douglas M. Pratt, president of the PTC, who attended the meeting, said the transit company is reviewing the work on the El.

Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon said the economy is expected to advance by a whopping 8% next year, paving the way for lower taxes.

Historian Douglas Brinkley said gonzo journalism requires virtually no rewriting and frequently uses transcribed interviews and verbatim telephone conversations.

If one film could be said to have established a new high-bench mark for special effects, it would be 1968's 2001: A Space Odyssey, directed by Stanley Kubrick, who assembled his own effects team ( Douglas Trumbull, Tom Howard, Con Pedersen and Wally Veevers ) rather than use an in-house effects unit.

Notable examples include David Tennant, born David McDonald, who said in an interview that he adopted the surname " Tennant " after seeing Neil Tennant in a copy of Smash Hits, Nathan Lane, whose birth name Joseph Lane was already in use, Stewart Granger, whose birth name was James Stewart, and Michael Keaton, born Michael Douglas.

Gurney was also suspected in Douglas's death, as Douglas was said to have been carrying more money than Gurney subsequently delivered with the body.

Historian David Potter ( 1976 ) said the emotional effect of Brown's raid was greater than the philosophical effect of the Lincoln – Douglas debates, and that his raid revealed a deep division between North and South.

Douglas later said that Malden became a " mentor " and someone he " admired and loved deeply ".

When Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas gave speeches in Greenville in 1858 during a campaign for the United States Senate, Douglas said: " Ladies and gentlemen it gives me great and supreme gratification and pleasure to see this vast concourse of people assembled to hear me upon this my first visit to Old Bond.

As I said, Batman was a combination of Douglas Fairbanks and Sherlock Holmes.

The president privately said of Long that along with General Douglas MacArthur, " e was one of the two most dangerous men in America.

In Serling: The Rise and Twilight of Television's Last Angry Man, writer Douglas Heyes said, " That was one of the great things about The Twilight Zone.

In 1440, in the King's name, an invitation is said to have been sent to the young 6th Earl of Douglas and his brother, eleven-year-old David, to visit the king at Edinburgh Castle in November 1440.

General Douglas MacArthur said that Curtin was " one of the greatest of the wartime statesmen ".

Her last appearance is said to have been as Lady Randolph in John Home's Douglas at Covent Garden in 1798.

Assessing the novel's legacy, philosopher Douglas Den Uyl described The Fountainhead as relatively neglected compared to her later novel, Atlas Shrugged, and said, " our problem is to find those topics that arise clearly with The Fountainhead and yet do not force us to read it simply through the eyes of Atlas Shrugged.

As Buster Douglas said in an interview years later '“ I thought Tyson was getting up until I had seen him looking for that mouth piece and then I knew that he was really hurt.

Douglas vs Holyfield was a reported $ 24. 6 million payday for Buster, though years later he said on the Howard Stern show he walked away with $ 1. 5 million after taxes, managers, trainers, etc.

However, there were many vocal critics of the Government action, including New Democratic Party leader Tommy Douglas, who said, " The government, I submit, is using a sledgehammer to crack a peanut.

Social Credit philosophy is best summed by Douglas when he said, " Systems were made for men, and not men for systems, and the interest of man which is self-development, is above all systems, whether theological, political or economic.

" Douglas said that Social Crediters want to build a new civilization based upon absolute economic security for the individual — where “... they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree ; and none shall make them afraid .” In keeping with this goal, Douglas was opposed to all forms of taxation on real property.

" There were little soup kitchens run by the Salvation Army and the churches ", Douglas said later.

After a series of debates in 1858 that gave national visibility to his opposition to the expansion of slavery, Lincoln lost a Senate race to his arch-rival, Stephen A. Douglas.

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.

The stage was then set for the campaign for statewide election of the Illinois legislature which would, in turn, select Lincoln or Douglas as its U. S. senator.

The 1858 senate campaign featured the seven Lincoln – Douglas debates of 1858, the most famous political debates in American history.

Lincoln warned that " The Slave Power " was threatening the values of republicanism, and accused Douglas of distorting the values of the Founding Fathers that all men are created equal, while Douglas emphasized his Freeport Doctrine, that local settlers were free to choose whether to allow slavery or not, and accused Lincoln of having joined the abolitionists.

Lincoln stated Douglas's popular sovereignty theory was a threat to the nation's morality and that Douglas represented a conspiracy to extend slavery to free states.

As Douglas and the other candidates went through with their campaigns, Lincoln was the only one of them who gave no speeches.

On November 6, 1860, Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States, beating Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, John C. Breckinridge of the Southern Democrats, and John Bell of the new Constitutional Union Party.

Lincoln received 1, 866, 452 votes, Douglas 1, 376, 957 votes, Breckinridge 849, 781 votes, and Bell 588, 789 votes.

Douglas won Missouri, and split New Jersey with Lincoln.

Lincoln was nominated in Chicago for the nation's presidency at the 1860 Republican National Convention and went on to defeat Douglas in the general election, setting the stage for the American Civil War.

* Strong, Douglas H. Dreamers & Defenders: American Conservationists ( 1971 ; Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1988 ) ISBN 0-8032-9156-6

Sen. Stephen A. Douglas and former Illinois Congressman Abraham Lincoln aired their disagreement over the Kansas – Nebraska Act in three public speeches during September and October 1854.

He and Douglas both spoke to the large audience, Douglas first and Lincoln in response two hours later.

Daniel Marshall was a supporter of the American Union and a staunch Democrat, and took his son to the Lincoln and Douglas debate in Freeport in 1858.

There the four-year-old Marshall met Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln and sat on the lap of whichever candidate was not speaking.

In 1860, he favored the Democratic presidential candidate Stephen A. Douglas over Abraham Lincoln, and Lincoln over the alternate Democratic candidate, John C. Breckinridge.

* In the novel Relic by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, the Xingu River is the location of the doomed Whittlesey / Maxwell expedition responsible for discovering evidence of the lost Kothoga tribe and their savage god Mbwun.

* November 6 – U. S. presidential election: Abraham Lincoln beats John C. Breckinridge, Stephen A. Douglas, and John Bell and is elected as the 16th President of the United States, the first Republican to hold that office.