There was more to this than Jones had told him.

When the meal was ready, he told Jones to wash up, and going into the front room, woke the girl.

It was a fair fight, the boy provoked it -- Big Charlie told me so.

Then he went on to the Cheyennes and told them that the Sioux was goin' to move up.

I was shown, instead, a batch of white tickets of the sort handed out, he told me, every morning.

By failing to do as he was told instantly -- to take out a permit or return the gun to his car -- he had played into Lord's hands.

`` Gyp Carmer couldn't have known about Colcord's money unless he was told -- and who else would have told him ''??

I was waiting in front of it when she showed up and told me of my Uncle's indisposition.

I was aware of a humid look in her eyes that told me the time was opportune.

The Grafin, who was charmed by her, told her, `` Your sister who was here two years ago has quite dark hair.

Meredith was irritated when the Grafin knocked at his door and told him, `` She is a great beauty!!

Her name was L'Turu and she told me many things.

`` Karipo was great goddess, told our mothers that men were not necessary except to father children '', the crone told me.

He was -- as he told himself in the vernacular of a trade no longer his own -- riding the dark train out.

He commented -- thoughtfully, a reporter told us -- that it was `` not too important for the individual how he ends up ''.

He was simply writing a story that wanted to be told, and in the writing a childhood fantasy of his own emerged.

What irritated Miriam was that Wright had told the papers about a reasonable offer he had made, which he considered she would accept `` when she tires of publicity ''.

You know Bang-Jensen was told the Committee was ' to convey its views, suggestions and recommendations to the Secretary General.

Bang-Jensen said you told correspondents that you had checked in advance to make sure the term ' aberrant conduct ' was not libelous.

Mama had told her how Emmett's lungs had been affected when he was gassed in the war.

Stephen F. Austin, after a lost bid for Texas's presidency in 1836, was appointed Secretary of State but died two months later.

This provision was inserted by Democratic Virginia Senator James M. Mason to coerce border-state Whigs, who faced the greatest danger of losing slaves as fugitives but who were lukewarm on general sectional issues related to the South into supporting Texas's land claims.

Johnson's father had served six terms in the Texas legislature and was a close friend of one of Texas's rising political figures, Congressman Sam Rayburn.

He was a major critic of President Mirabeau Lamar, who advocated continuing independence of Texas, annihilation of American Indians and the extension of Texas's boundaries to the Pacific Ocean.

Galena Park was within Texas's 29th congressional district ; as of 2011 Gene Green represented the district.

Prior to Texas's independence from Mexico in 1836, the town was listed as under the jurisdiction of the town of Mier, Tamaulipas, and prior to Mexican independence existed under Spanish rule.

A research survey by Texas's Research and Oversight Council on Workers ’ Compensation found that 68 % on non-subscribing employers and 60 % of subscribing employers – a majority in both cases – were satisfied with their experiences in the system, and that satisfaction with nonsubscription increased with the size of the firm ; but it stated that further research was needed to gauge satisfaction among employees and to determine the adequacy of compensation under nonsubscription compared to subscription.

Jenkins began working for Lyndon B. Johnson in 1939 when Johnson was serving in the U. S. House of Representatives as the member from Texas's 10th congressional district.

His nephew, Ken Bentsen, Jr., was a U. S. Representative ( D ) from 1995 to 2003 in Texas's 25th District, and a U. S. Senate candidate in 2002.

Charles " Charlie " Nesbitt Wilson ( June 1, 1933 – February 10, 2010 ) was a United States naval officer and former 12-term Democratic United States Representative from Texas's 2nd congressional district.

In 1972, Wilson was elected to the United States House of Representatives from Texas's 2nd congressional district, taking office the following January.

She asserted that it was a racially discriminatory ruling, given the fact that the Supreme Court had previously ruled that Texas's 6th District, which is 91 percent white, was constitutional.

In 1954, he was elected to Congress from Texas's 12th congressional district, based in Fort Worth but also including Weatherford.

Washington was elected as a Democrat to the 101st United States Congress for Texas's 18th congressional district, by special election, December 9, 1989, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Mickey Leland.

The Texas Centennial Exposition was a World's Fair held at Fair Park in Dallas, Texas ( USA ) to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Texas's independence from Mexico in 1836.

On May 1, 1976, Bartlett was defeated as a delegate in the Republican presidential primary pledged to then U. S. President Gerald R. Ford, Jr. His defeat occurred ironically in Texas's 3rd congressional district, which he later represented in Congress.

The majority report of the court found that Commodore Schley failed to proceed to Santiago with due despatch, that the squadron should not have been delayed by the Eagle, that he should not have turned westward, that he should have obeyed the Navy Department's order of May 25, 1898, that he did not do his utmost to capture the Colon, that the turn of the Brooklyn caused the Texas to stop, for carelessness in endangering Texas, for blanketing the fire of other American vessels ( the Texas's fire was blanketed when stopped as the USS Olympia dashed past her ), that he did injustice to lieutenant-commander Hodgson ( Navigation officer of the Brooklyn at the time of the incident ), that his conduct in the Santiago campaign was characterized by vacillation, dilatoriness, and " lack of enterprise ," and that his coal reports were inaccurate and misleading.

One of her brothers, Jim Henley, ran as a Democrat in the 2006 election for Texas's 7th congressional district but lost to incumbent Congressmember John Culberson ; he was elected to the Harris County Department of Education Position Seven At-Large in late 2008.

He was first introduced as an obnoxious frat boy in the college strip The Academia Waltz, which ran in the University of Texas's Daily Texan during 1978 and 1979.

Ruwart was the Libertarian Party of Texas's nominee for U. S. Senate in 2000, where she faced incumbent Republican Kay Bailey Hutchison ; Ruwart polled 1. 16 % of the popular vote ( 72, 798 votes ), finishing fourth of four candidates behind Green Party candidate Douglas Sandage.

In 1845, during the annexation of Texas by the United States, he represented his home county during the convention which wrote the state constitution Wood was elected to the Texas Senate following Texas's admission to the United States.

John William Wright Patman ( August 6, 1893 – March 7, 1976 ) was a U. S. Congressman from Texas in Texas's 1st congressional district and chair of the United States House Committee on Banking and Currency ( 1965 – 75 ).