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Upon complaints from the Lower House of Convocation to the House of Lords, he was removed from the Privy Council, his remark having been represented as a blasphemous affront to the clergy.
Steele apparently professed his sentiments in this book too openly and honestly for his own good, since the government was soon to use it as evidence against him in his trial before the House.
Now and then, the President would call for `` Little Jack, Master of the Hounds '', which was his nickname for a messenger who had worked in the White House since Teddy Roosevelt's administration, and discuss the welfare of some one of the animals.
One White House dog was immortalized in a painting.
The first royalty whom Mama ever waited on in the White House was Queen Marie of Rumania, who came to a State dinner given in her honor on October 21, 1926.
She was not an overnight guest in the White House, but Mr. Ike Hoover, the chief usher, had Mama check her fur coat when she came in, and take care of her needs.
Mama was very patriotic, and one of the duties she was proudest of was repairing the edges of the flag that flew above the White House.
This was not before the House but before the Judiciary Committee, where he asked for action on one of his pet bills, that calling for an investigation of the coal-railroad monopoly.
He soon quarreled with all the party leaders in the House, and came to be regarded with detestation by regular Democrats as a professional radical leading a small pack of obedient terriers whose constant snapping was demoralizing to party discipline.
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!!
The House was his habitat and there he flourished, first as a young representative, then as a forceful committee chairman, and finally in the post for which he seemed intended from birth, Speaker of the House, and second most powerful man in Washington.
He was, of course, in the House for a very long time.
And it was the House he loved.
Some reports say he was rescued from timely retirement by his friend, Congressman Walter of Pennsylvania, at a moment when the Kennedy Administration was diligently searching for all the House votes it could get.
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.
It was called Kent House.
But this situation of Kent House was more subtle.
There was no room for company in the tiny Weaning House ( where the Albright boys always took their brides, till they could get a house and a farm of their own ).
On April 25, the White House reported that a total embargo of remaining U.S. trade with Cuba was being considered.

was and pariah
In 1985, the president of the Unification Church of the United States, Mose Durst, asserted there was a positive change in perception of the church after Moon's trial and his conviction on federal tax violations and conspiracy: " In one year, we moved from being a pariah to being part of the mainstream.
Teegeeack was subsequently abandoned by the Galactic Confederacy and remains a pariah " prison planet " to this day, although it has suffered repeatedly from incursions by alien " Invader Forces " since that time.
Carey led his men back to camp, where he was greeted warmly for the last time in his career: after a court of inquiry, a court martial, intervention by the Empress Eugenie and Queen Victoria, he was to return to his regiment a pariah, shunned by his fellow officers for not standing and fighting.
Huston was no longer considered a pariah ; he was decorated and eventually promoted to major.
Sheridan was not obliged to accept this challenge, but would have become a social pariah if he had not.
) As a result of the Camp David Accords, Sadat — considered a pariah and traitor — was assassinated three years later on October 6, 1981, during a military parade, commemorating Egypt's " victory " over Israel in the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
" The RSFSR was a pariah state at the time.
Mary's status in England was transformed from honoured guest to treasonous pariah, and she was universally condemned by the governing elite.
Powell later recalled that Macleod's dealings with him were as if Powell was a pariah afterwards, and he ( Powell ) believed
A woman asserting herself was a pariah.
Several African American political leaders visited Nigeria during his reign and Farrakhan supported the regime, while it was seen as an international pariah.
While it won a clear plurality with 28 % of the vote and 82 seats, the party was still viewed as a pariah by its democratic rivals and was thus left in opposition.
Thus, by the 1930s, Soviet Russia was no longer an international pariah.
Mostel received a Tony Award for it and was invited for a reception in the White House, officially ending his political pariah status.
“ I saw him vote for me .” The liberal Democrats voted against Rostenkowski because of his ties to Mayor Daley, who was a pariah because of the 1968 convention and many of Albert ’ s friends voted against him because of the feud.
When asked by Rolling Stone magazine in March 2012 if he thought making Head was a mistake, Nesmith responded by saying that " by the time Head came out the Monkees were a pariah.
What he most esteemed, and identified with in his own tradition, was the ideal of the Jew as ' pariah '.
His group often blanketed the community with fliers and mass mailings, and held an annual parade in downtown Coeur d ' Alene, however the parade was a pariah since the Aryan Nations was condemned by the town of Coeur d ' Alene.
During his lifetime, Carlebach was often relegated to pariah status, marginalized by many of his peers.

was and .
He was well rid of her.
He certainly didn't want a wife who was fickle as Ann.
But all of this was rationalization.
The easiest thing would be to sell out to Al Budd and leave the country, but there was a stubborn streak in him that wouldn't allow it.
The best antidote for the bitterness and disappointment that poisoned him was hard work.
He found that if he was tired enough at night, he went to sleep simply because he was too exhausted to stay awake.
each day the hurt was a little duller, a little less poignant.
Because the summer was unusually dry and hot, the spring produced a smaller stream than in ordinary years.
The grass in the meadows came fast, now that the warm weather was here.
When they were closer and he saw that one was a woman, he was more puzzled than ever.
They were dirty, their clothes were torn, and the girl was so exhausted that she fell when she was still twenty feet from the front door.
Morgan hesitated, thinking that if this was a trick, it was a good one.
He didn't think it was possible for this couple to be pretending.
Her face was very thin, and burned by the sun until much of the skin was dead and peeling, the new skin under it red and angry.
Her blond hair was frowzy, her dress torn in several places, and her shoes were so completely worn out that they were practically no protection.
It must have hurt her even to walk, for the sole was completely off her left foot and Morgan saw that it was bruised and bleeding.
She was amazingly light, and so relaxed in his arms that he wasn't even sure she was conscious.
Any lingering suspicion that this was a trick Al Budd had thought up was dispelled.

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