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Garfield and West
The West Side holds the Garfield Park Conservatory, one of the largest collections of tropical plants in any US city.
Others include Brad Hogg, Garfield Sobers and Dave Mohammed of the West Indies.
This engendered in the furious Garfield a lasting distrust of the training at West Point.
Chase and Garfield shared a disdain for West Point and the President, though Garfield praised the Emancipation Proclamation.
Garfield also shared a negative view of General McClellan, whom he considered the epitome of the Democratic, pro-slavery, poorly-trained West Point generals.
Garfield was to attend a formal banquet that night in honor of the Seventh Regiment veterans at the West End Hotel.
* Garfield County, Nebraska-( West )
Enid's original plat in 1893 was 6 blocks wide by 11 blocks long consisting of the town square on the northwest end, West Hill ( Jefferson ) school on the south west end, Government Springs Park in the middle southern section, and East Hill ( Garfield ) school on the far north east corner.
His father remarried and moved to the West Bronx where Garfield joined a series of gangs.
* Buddhism in the West by Jay Garfield
Sir Garfield St Aubrun Sobers AO, OCC ( born 28 July 1936 ) is a former cricketer who captained West Indies.
Garfield Park is a site located in the East Garfield Park neighborhood on Chicago's West Side.
It was designed as a pleasure ground by William LeBaron Jenney and is the oldest of the three great original Chicago West Side parks ( Humboldt Park, Garfield, and Douglas Park ).
In 1905, Jens Jensen, now known as the Dean of Prairie-style landscape architecture, was appointed as the superintendent of the West Park System where he experimented with design ideas and improvements to the deteriorated and unfinished sections of Garfield Park.
During the 1920s, a major addition was incorporated into Garfield Park: a grand, golden domed administration building for the West Park Commission designed by Michaelsen and Rognstad.
In 1905, Chicago's West Park Commission's general superintendent and chief landscape architect, Jens Jensen, demolished the three smaller greenhouses in Humboldt, Douglas and Garfield Parks to create what was intended as " the largest publicly owned conservatory under one roof in the world " in Garfield Park.
He and Arthur Agee, from West Garfield Park, hoped to hone their basketball talent into professional careers with the NBA.
During the riots in the aftermath of Dr. King's assassination, the " Stones " were credited with preserving and protecting the Woodlawn neighborhood ( albeit through extortion and intimidation ), which saw minimal disturbance in contrast with neighborhoods like Garfield Park and the West Side.
The next stage in the development of the West Side ' L ' came on June 19, 1895, when the Garfield Park Branch was added, extending west in the vicinity of Van Buren Street and Harrison Street from Marshfield Avenue to Cicero Avenue.
The Beaverheads are further subdivided into the West Big Hole Mountains, the Big Hole Divide, the Tendoy Mountains, the Italian Peaks, and the Garfield Peaks.
* Garfield Park Community Hospital ( 3821 West Washington Boulevard )

Garfield and Virginia
To break hold of the resurgent Democratic Party in the Solid South, Garfield cautiously gave senatorial patronage privilege to Virginia Senator William Mahone of the biracial independent Readjuster Party.
* Garfield, Virginia, now Springfield, Virginia

Garfield and delegates
Despite the information available at the time, Garfield made a strong showing at the convention in 1874, commanding over two-thirds of the delegates, and then won re-election against Democratic and Independent opponents, though by a smaller margin than in the past.
However, at the outset of the Republican convention, a deadlock ensued between supporters of former President Grant, James G. Blaine, and Sherman ; the delegates began to look to Garfield as an optimal compromise choice.
Garfield had emerged as a candidate after delegates were impressed by his nomination speech of Sherman.

Garfield and speech
Garfield was issued orders to report to Washington, where he was promoted to Major General ; shortly thereafter he gave an unambiguously abolitionist speech in Maryland.
In 1868 Garfield gave his noted two-hour " Currency " speech in the House, which was widely applauded as his best oratory yet ; in it he advocated a gradual resumption of specie payment.
James A. Garfield, who was representing the Ohio delegation, gave a major speech in support of Sherman, but soon found himself among those receiving delegate votes.
He wrote a speech in support of Ulysses S. Grant called " Grant vs. Hancock ", which he revised to " Garfield vs. Hancock " after Garfield won the Republican nomination in the 1880 presidential campaign.
When it came time to vote, it resulted in a tie, so one enterprising gentleman, Reuben F. Wilson, asked Elder Garfield ( who loved to talk ) to get up and make a speech in favor of the free school.
The shareholders seem swayed by Jorgy's speech and boo Garfield when he gets up to give a rebuttal.

Garfield and against
Garfield conceived a plan to conduct a cavalry raid behind Bragg's line ( similar to that Bragg was employing against Rosecrans ) which Rosecrans approved ; the raid, led by Abel Streight, failed, due in part to poor execution and weather.
Nevertheless Garfield, in an unusual move, drew up a report of the council's deliberations, and thus convinced Rosecrans to proceed with an advance against Bragg.
" When Johnson's veto terminated the Freedman's Bureau, the President had effectively entrenched himself against Congress, and Garfield rejoined the Radical camp.
In another reassessment, Garfield supported articles of impeachment against President Andrew Johnson over charges that he violated the Tenure of Office Act by removing Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.
Garfield also pursued his anti-inflationist campaign against the greenback through his work on the bill for a national bank system.
In the morning of May 20 Garfield, against his doctor's strict orders, played several strenuous sets of tennis with a friend, mentioning the fact that he had not been to bed the night before.
When he was seven, his family emigrated to Seattle ( United States ), where he attended Queen Anne Elementary School, Meany Middle School and Garfield High School, and honed his game at a ( now-defunct ) coffeehouse, the Last Exit on Brooklyn, playing against the likes of Latvian-born master Viktors Pupols and six-time Washington State Champion James Harley McCormick.
After quitting the show early on and against Frazier Thomas and Roy Brown's wishes, Bruce and Claire Newton mounted a live, traveling Garfield Goose Telepuppets show at neighborhood events for many years after the series had gone off the air, alongside other non-Garfield Goose puppets built and performed by the pair for other shows.
Miriam grants Garfield full immunity in exchange for his testifying against Dietrich.
The 365 not out by Sir Garfield Sobers which stood as a Test record for over 36 years is more regaled, as was Lawrence Rowe's world record on debut 214 and 100 not out against the visiting New Zealanders in 1972.
Recurring characters include Chainsawsuit, a man with a series of chainsaws strapped to his body for self-defense against zombies ; Famous Chef, a caricature of Gordon Ramsay ; Lazy Cat, an ultraviolent send-up of Garfield ; Two Cops, a police officer who was accidentally enrolled in the academy twice and is regarded by all characters as two separate people ; H. P. Wuvcraft, a cuddlier version of Lovecraft ; master pickup artist Huntyr Chase ; and Straub himself, who appears in some autobiographical comics.
The Gallo brothers and the Garfield boys ( led by Carmine Persico ) were aligned against Profaci and his loyalists.

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