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Katherine Douglas King '' The invitation was accepted and other letters followed, in which she spoke of her concern for his health and her delight in seeing him so much at home among the crippled children she served.
The new site was somewhat warmer than Fort Douglas and much closer to the great herds of buffalo on which the settlement must depend for food.
The latest death reported was that of 4-year-old Claude Douglas Maynor of Calvary.
Still more time was consumed while the pilot, at the radioed suggestion of Continental president Robert Six, tried to persuade the armed pair to swap the Boeing jet for a propeller-driven Douglas Aj.
A colossal campaign opened to sell more sexual organs of plants and Mrs. Joseph ( `` Shadow of Greatness '' ) Douglas was quoted as saying: `` I would no more sit down without flowers on my table than without serviettes ''.
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.
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.
Douglas said that Lincoln was defying the authority of the U. S. Supreme Court and the Dred Scott decision.
Meanwhile, Douglas was selected as the candidate of the Northern Democrats, with Herschel Vespasian Johnson as the vice-presidential candidate.
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.
It was the prospect of bowling at this line-up that caused England's 1932 – 33 captain Douglas Jardine to adopt the tactic of fast leg theory, also known as Bodyline.
One of the most successful designs of this period was the Douglas DC-3, which became the first airliner that was profitable carrying passengers exclusively, starting the modern era of passenger airline service.
The airframe was developed by Douglas Aircraft Company.
The EHV was initially formed with two Douglas C-47 Skytrain and three MH. 1521M Broussard aircraft.
She played bit parts in three English-language films, the British comedy Doctor at Sea ( 1955 ) with Dirk Bogarde, Helen of Troy ( 1954 ), in which she was understudy for the title role but appears only as Helen's handmaid, and Act of Love ( 1954 ) with Kirk Douglas.
The result of his experience with adapting The Demolished Man was The Fury, a science fiction psychic thriller that starred Kirk Douglas, Carrie Snodgress, John Cassavetes and Amy Irving.
Douglas fought in the King's own Battle, but when the fight seemed over Douglas was dragged by his men from the melee.
The connection was firmly cemented by the time Lancaster and Douglas reteamed for their final movie, Tough Guys.
Although Douglas was always second billed under Lancaster in these films, their roles were usually more or less the same size with the exceptions of I Walk Alone, in which Douglas played a villain, and in Seven Days in May, where Douglas ' part was larger than Lancaster's but not as dramatic.

Douglas and proposal
A proposal to study the use of a Saturn S-IV as a manned space laboratory was documented in 1962 by the Douglas Aircraft Company.
This time Representative Stephen Douglas, Democrat of Illinois, reintroduced the proposal to simply extend the Missouri Compromise line to the west coast, and this was again defeated 109 – 82.
C. Douglas Barwell sought legal advice on how best the proposal could be managed, out of which the Lower Avon Navigation Trust Ltd ( LANT ) was constituted as a charity in 1950, and the BBC broadcast news of the proposals in April 1950.
Evatt indicated his support for a proposal by Douglas Mawson for the establishment of a permanent Australian base in Antarctica.
From this requirement came the McDonnell Douglas Delta Clipper VTVL SSTO proposal.
Field Marshal Douglas Haig, commander of the British Expeditionary Force, accepted this proposal.
McDonnell Douglas merged with Boeing in 1997 and used its Delta IV spacelifter for their EELV proposal.
After Cass ' defeat in 1848, Illinois Senator Stephen Douglas assumed a leading role in the party and became closely associated with popular sovereignty with his proposal of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
A number of proposals were considered, and finally Foch agreed on a proposal by Field Marshal Douglas Haig, the commander of the British Expeditionary Force ( BEF ), to strike on the Somme, east of Amiens and southwest of the 1916 battlefield of the Battle of the Somme, with the intention of forcing the Germans away from the vital Amiens-Paris railway.
Lieutenant Nelson took the Douglas proposal to Washington where Major General Mason M. Patrick, Chief of the Air Service, approved it on 1 August 1923.

Douglas and Atchison
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.
Douglas was accompanied at the meeting by Atchison, Hunter, Phillips and John C. Breckinridge of Kentucky.
Douglas and Atchison first met alone with Pierce before the whole group convened.
* Sheriff: Douglas Atchison

Douglas and group
The close-knit group included Haines and his partner Jimmie Shields, Alan Ladd, writer Somerset Maugham, director James Vincent, screenwriter Rowland Leigh, costume designers Orry-Kelly and Robert Le Maire, and actors John Darrow, Anderson Lawler, Grady Sutton, Robert Seiter and Tom Douglas.
Developing his talents as an MC with Flavor Flav while delivering furniture for his father's business, Chuck D ( Carlton Douglas Ridenhour ) and Spectrum City, as the group was called, released the record " Check Out the Radio ," backed by " Lies ," a social commentary — both of which would influence RUSH Productions ' Run-D. M. C.
Psychologist Douglas Haldeman writes that conversion therapy comprises efforts by mental health professionals and pastoral care providers to convert lesbians and gay men to heterosexuality by techniques including aversive treatments, such as " the application of electric shock to the hands and / or genitals ," and " nausea-inducing drugs ... administered simultaneously with the presentation of homoerotic stimuli ," masturbatory reconditioning, visualization, social skills training, psychoanalytic therapy, and spiritual interventions, such as " prayer and group support and pressure.
A Douglas B-18 " Bolo "; a Boeing B-17 " Flying Fortress "; a Boeing " B-29 Superfortress " and the B-36 " Peacemaker " dominating the group photo with a 230 Ft Wingspan.
The group has disparate views of social policy: Thatcher herself was socially conservative and a practising Methodist but the free-market wing in the Conservative Party harbour a range of social opinions from the civil libertarian views of Michael Portillo, Daniel Hannan, Douglas Carswell and David Davis to the traditional conservatism of William Hague.
The couple returned to Los Angeles and quickly became part of a social group that included some of the most successful young people in the film industry, including Steve McQueen, Warren Beatty, Mia Farrow, Peter Sellers, Jacqueline Bisset, Leslie Caron, Joan Collins, Joanna Pettet, Laurence Harvey, Peter Fonda and Jane Fonda, older film stars like Henry Fonda, Kirk Douglas, Yul Brynner and Danny Kaye, musicians such as Jim Morrison and the Mamas & the Papas, and record producer Terry Melcher and his girlfriend Candice Bergen.
Playwright Shaun Duggan's stage drama William, Alex Broun's one-man show Half a Person: My Life as Told by The Smiths, Douglas Coupland's 1998 novel Girlfriend in a Coma, Andrew Collins ' autobiography Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now, Mark Spitz's novel How Soon is Never ?, the pop band Shakespear's Sister, the defunct art-punk group Pretty Girls Make Graves, and the Polish filmmaker Przemyslaw Wojcieszek's short fictional film about two Polish fans of The Smiths, Louder Than Bombs, are all inspired by or named after songs or albums by The Smiths.
Some Bluegrass musicians in this group are Doc Watson, J. D. Crowe, Doyle Lawson, Sam Bush, Bela Fleck, John Hartford, Jerry Douglas, Norman Blake, Frank Wakefield, Bill Keith, Del McCoury and Tony Rice.
The other three original members of the Short Circus were Melanie Henderson ( who at 13 was the oldest of the original group ), Stephen Gustafson, and Douglas Grant.
It was this group that obtained the help of Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas by participating in a Dam Protest Hike which drew local and national attention to the situation.
Printed copies of the petition and Facebook group membership were mailed to Richmond Braves general manager Bruce Baldwin, Atlanta Braves Vice President Mike Plant, Richmond Mayor ( and former Virginia governor ) L. Douglas Wilder and Richmond City Council President Bill Pantele.
The group organized in Cheyenne and proceeded by a specially hired train to Casper, Wyoming and then toward Johnson County on horseback, cutting the telegraph lines north of Douglas, Wyoming in order to prevent an alarm.
Of one such child he interviewed, Douglas stated, " After being kidnapped by a rebel group, he was tortured, drugged, and forced to commit atrocities.
Brian Douglas Wilson ( born June 20, 1942 ) is an American musician, best known as the leader and chief songwriter of the group The Beach Boys.
In democratic societies the goals and mechanisms of formal social control are determined through legislation by elected representatives and thus enjoy a measure of support from the population and voluntary compliance. Douglas D. Heckathorn notes that the effectiveness of any type of formal control is determined by the relative strength of the sanction in terms of extent of punishment, monitoring ability, and degree of group or informal control on the individual.
Matt Borruso and Christopher Douglas later reemerged in Loudspeaker, a New York – based noise rock group.
The original group of boys that made up Troop # 1 were Charles Booth, George Booth, Gerald Brock, Carl Burgess, Earl Burgess, Dr. Stanton Burgess, Raymond Cave, William Cheeney, Clarence Geake, James Grearson, Walter Grearson, Douglas Inglis, Harry Kent, George Murray, Milton Rollins, Craig Rollins ( or Ronald Cragg?
The group was equipped with Douglas FA-26 Invaders ( RB-26 after 1948 ) and Lockheed FP-80's ( RF-80s after 1948 ) and was integrated with the 1st Fighter Wing, performing a wide array of day and night photographic missions in southern California.
* Maureen Tucker, drummer and occasional singer of 1960s and 1970s rock group The Velvet Underground lives in Douglas.
In February 1406 the 11 year-old James and a powerful group of followers clashed with Albany's Douglas allies resulting in the death of the king's counsellor Sir David Fleming of Cumbernauld.
In November 1398, an influential group of magnates and prelates met at Falkland Castle that included Albany, Rothesay, Archibald, earl of Douglas, Albany's son Murdoch, justiciar North of the Forth along with the bishops Walter of St Andrews and Gilbert of Aberdeen — the outcome of this meeting manifested itself at the council meeting held in January 1399 when the king was forced to surrender power to Rothesay for a period of three years.
In February 1406, the 12 year-old James together with Orkney and Fleming at the head of a large group of followers left the safety of Bishop Wardlaw's protection in St Andrews and journeyed through the hostile Douglas territories of east Lothian — an act probably designed to demonstrate James's royal endorsement of his custodians but also a move by his custodians to further their own interests in the traditional Douglas heartlands.

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