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He was a member of many organizations and societies, including Anti-Slavery Society for the protection of Human Rights ; Phi Beta Sigma fraternity ( Alpha Chapter and Mu Chapter ); West African Students ' Union ; Onitsha Improvement Union ; Zik ’ s Athletic Club ; Ekine Sekiapu Society of Buguma, Kalabari ; St. John ’ s Lodge of England ; Royal Economic Society ; Royal Anthropological Institute ; British Association for the Advancement of Science ; American Society of International Law ; American Anthropological Association ; American Political Science Association ; American Ethnological Society ; Amateur Athletic Association of Nigeria ; Nigerian Swimming Association, Nigerian Boxing Board of Control ; Nigerian Cricket Association ; Ibo State Union ; Nigerian Table Tennis Association ; Nigeria Olympic Committee and British Empire and Commonwealth Games Association.
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In the judgment of Chief of Staff Scott it was ironic that the draft policy of a Democratic President, aimed at Germany, had to be pushed through the House of Representatives by the ranking minority member of the Military Affairs Committee -- a Republican Jew born in Germany!!
Fosdick, a brother of minister Harry Emerson Fosdick, was a graduate of Princeton, and a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the American Philosophical Association.
From the point of view of popularity the best-known member of the Commission was Walter Camp, the Yale athlete whose sobriquet was `` the father of American football ''.
Not only is Mr. Frelinghuysen a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, but he is the grandson of the man who was instrumental in opening relations between the United States and Korea, Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, Secretary of State in the administration of Chester A. Arthur.
-- The best 2-year-old pacing mile up to date at Ben White Raceway has been that of Mary Liner ( Mainliner-Highland Ellen ), a member of the Dick Williams stable, who was clocked 2:25.
The terms are fairly safe to use on this side of the ocean, but before you start spouting them to your date, it might be best to find out if he was a member of Major Pockmanster's Delhi Regiment, since resentment toward the natives was reportedly very high in that outfit.
The 1952 demographic inquiry in Ruanda-Urundi was directed by V. Neesen, a member of the IRSAC staff, though the inquiry was carried out under the auspices of AIMO, which has continuing responsibility for demographic statistics in this territory.
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The choice of the single member district was dictated to a certain extent by problems of communication and understanding in the more remote areas of the country, but it also served to minimize the national political value of the elections.
He was a member of The Fighting Seventh.
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`` If there was collusion between an outside murderer and a member of the household it would be an elementary precaution to check on the door later.
He said he was `` confessing that I was a member of the Socialist Party in 1910 ''.
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The proposal was made by Dr. David S. Jenkins after he and Mrs. D. Ellwood Williams, Jr., a board member and long-time critic of the superintendent, argued for about fifteen minutes at this week's meeting.
It was about that time, a board member said later, that Dr. Thomas G. Pullen, Jr., State superintendent of schools, told Dr. Jenkins and a number of other education officials that he would not talk to them with a recording machine sitting in front of him.
M. Kegham -- the name is a pseudynom -- was a teacher in Bucharest and a member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation ( ARF ) -- two reasons the Communists put him away when they arrived in 1945.
He was a member of the Baptist church.
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Joe Purvis was thinking back many years.
The Gap looming before him -- the place where had confronted Jack English on that day so many years ago -- was his exit from all that had meaning to him.
Although it was dark as usual I could see that the hall had only recently contained a great many people.
For Matilda, it was the first she had known in many a night.
Her name was L'Turu and she told me many things.
Hell, I gave him the first decent job he ever had, six, seven -- how many years ago was it, Rob ''??
Then there was no saying how many times the marine had blown his nose on the handkerchief.
All but the most rabid of Confederate flag wavers admit that the Old Southern tradition is defunct in actuality and sigh that its passing was accompanied by the disappearance of many genteel and aristocratic traditions of the reputedly languid ante-bellum way of life.
Though his election was interpreted by many Southerners as the forerunner of a dangerous shift in the federal balance in favor of the Union, Lincoln himself proposed no such change in the rights the Constitution gave the states.
Once, then -- for how many years or how few does not matter -- my world was bound round by fences, when I was too small to reach the apple tree bough, to twist my knee over it and pull myself up.
The street that is full now of traffic and parked cars then and for many years drowsed on an August afternoon in the shade of the curbside trees, and silence was a weight, almost palpable, in the air.
Prohibition was the law of the land, but it was unpopular ( how many of us oldsters took up drinking in prohibition days, drinking was so gay, so fashionable, especially in the sophisticated Northeast!!
The contents of this 195-page document would become known to many before it would become known to the man it was written about.
`` The entire object of the press conference was to clarify the problem of the list, since many in the press were querying the U.N. about it.
It seems to me now, in a long backward glance, that many of the Hetman's conceits and odd actions -- together with his grim posture when brandishing the hatchet in the name of Mr. Hearst -- were keyed with the tragedy which was to close over him one day.
The sneers at Hearst changed to concern when it was seen that he had strong support in many parts of the country.
As the field on which my tent was pitched was a favorite natural playground for the kids of the neighborhood, I had made many friends among them, taking part in their after-school games and trying desperately to translate Grimm's Fairy Tales into an understandable French as we gathered around the fire in front of the tent.
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it was demonstrated, many critics would later point out, in the length of his novels.
the pope was playing a dangerous game, with so many balls in the air at once that a misstep would bring them all about his ears, and his only hope was to temporize so that he could take advantage of every change in the delicate balance of European affairs.
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