A typical episode centres on Hacker's suggesting and pursuing a reform and Sir Humphrey's blocking of all Hacker's lines of approach.

Many of Humphrey's liberal friends and allies over the years abandoned him because of his refusal to publicly criticize Johnson's Vietnam War policies.

He began to serve in December 1990 because he was appointed to the position early following Humphrey's resignation.

The barons of Jerusalem had only begrudgingly accepted Guy as king because of the lack of a rival candidate ( due to Humphrey's diffidence ), and after the fall of Jerusalem they turned against him.

According to the Old French Continuation of William of Tyre ( also known as the Chronicle of Ernoul ), Humphrey's mother Stephanie sent a message to Saladin telling him of the recent wedding and reminding him of their shared history:

This device did not appear on their coat of arms, ( az, a bend ar cotised or, between 6 lioncels or ) nor their crest ( gu, doubled erm, a lion gardant crowned ), but it does appear on Humphrey's personal seal ( illustration ).

One day, he decides that he would start a little club, called Master Humphrey's Clock, where the members would read out their manuscripts to the others.

As a youngster, Humphrey's gang of friends at the lake would put on theatricals.

Humphrey's campaign was low on funds and could not compete for advertising and other " get-out-the-vote " drives with Kennedy's well-financed and well-organized campaign.

Humphrey's father died that year, and Humphrey stopped using the " Jr ." suffix on his name.

Humphrey's defeat in 1960 had a profound influence on his thinking ; after the primaries he told friends that, as a relatively poor man in politics, he was unlikely to ever become President unless he served as Vice-President first.

* Information on Humphrey's thought and influence, including quotations from his speeches and writings.

It was built for a cost of £ 520 (£ 20 over budget ) out of largely recycled materials on the foundations of Duke Humphrey's Tower, which resulted in the alignment being 13 degrees away from true North, somewhat to Flamsteed's chagrin.

* Lady Appleby, Sir Humphrey's wife, is mentioned on occasion and seen only briefly in " Big Brother ".

Kennedy was on stage to claim victory over McCarthy in the California primary when he was assassinated ; McCarthy was unable to overcome Humphrey's support within the party elite.

In 1180, when Isabella was 8 ( according to William of Tyre ), she was betrothed to Humphrey IV of Toron, on the orders of her half-brother Baldwin IV, in payment of a debt of honour to Humphrey's grandfather Humphrey II who had been mortally wounded saving the king at Banias, and to remove her from the Ibelins ' political orbit.

Shortly after her death in 1958, aged 63, Humphrey's book, The Art of Making Dances ( ISBN 0-87127-158-3 ), in which she shared her observations and theories on dance and composition, was posthumously published.

This was the first of many of Dickens's early works adapted for the stage of the Adelphi, including The Pickwick Papers as William Leman Rede's The Peregrinations of Pickwick ; or, Boz-i-a-na, a three-act burletta first performed on 3 April 1837, Frederick Henry Yates's production of Nicholas Nickleby ; or, Doings at Do-The-Boys Hall in November and December 1838, and Edward Stirling's two-act burletta The Old Curiosity Shop ; or, One Hour from Humphrey's Clock ( November and December 1840, January 1841 ).

And legal questions from the lawsuit went before the United States Supreme Court in Humphrey's Executor v. United States, 295 U. S. 602 ( 1935 ), in which the Court ruled that Roosevelt's decision to terminate Humphrey violated an express limitation on presidential power set forth by Congress in the Federal Trade Commission Act.

From whatever source it got its name, the private township of Middlemarch on Humphrey's property of Garthmyl had been surveyed on land adjoining the projected railway and several sections were already sold by 6 November 1880.

Aaloosaktukwi or Humphrey's Peak holds particular religious significance and is associated with the deity Aaloosaka, a symbol of the Two-Horn Society, a religious group among the Hopi dating to the occupation of the Awat ’ ovi village on Antelope Mesa.

*" From Caricature to Progress: Master Humphrey's Clock and Martin Chuzzlewit " by Michael Steig at Victorian Web-an article on Dickens ' collaboration with his illustrators during this period

I think that Humphrey's hobbies were reading ( mainly biographies ), listening to classical music, and occasionally visiting the RSC, the National Theatre or the Royal Opera House, where he was on the Board.

Even so, on many occasions Sir Humphrey describes Woolley as a " rising star " and " high flier " of the Civil Service, though it is not entirely clear how to interpret Sir Humphrey's remarks — that is, whether with sincere deference to Bernard's capabilities or with indignance to such a term being applied to a subordinate.

In 1968 Storck wrote, produced, and directed a half-hour promotional documentary on Hubert Humphrey called What Manner of Man, which was hugely instrumental in Humphrey's sudden surge in the polls towards the end of his unsuccessful race against Richard Nixon for President of the United States.

On the other hand, we frequently see Bernard forced to hide something, at which point he tries to mimic Sir Humphrey's distinctive style of confusing never-ending sentences in order to play for time with the Minister.

Watts Humphrey's Capability Maturity Model ( CMM ) was published in 1988 and as a book in 1989, in Managing the Software Process.

Isabella's mother Maria and the Ibelins ( now closely allied to Conrad ) argued that Isabella and Humphrey's marriage was illegal, as she had been underage at the time ; underlying this was the fact that Humphrey had betrayed his wife's cause in 1186.

In Myers v. United States,, the Supreme Court held that Congress could not limit the President's power to remove an executive officer ( the Postmaster General ), but in Humphrey's Executor v. United States, it upheld Congress's authority to restrict the President's power to remove officers of the Federal Trade Commission, an " administrative body cannot in any proper sense be characterized as an arm or eye of the executive.

Quite the contrary: The Take Care Clause demands that the president obeys the law, the Supreme Court said in Humphrey's Executor v. United States, and repudiates any notion that the president may dispense with the law's execution.

In the late 1920s a severe economic downturn hit Doland ; both of the town's banks closed and Humphrey's father struggled to keep his drugstore open.

They were married in 1936 and remained married until Humphrey's death nearly 42 years later.

Humphrey's tenure as mayor is noted for his efforts to fight all forms of bigotry.

Also strongly backing the liberal civil rights plank were Democratic urban bosses like Ed Flynn of the Bronx, who promised the votes of northeastern delegates to Humphrey's platform, Jacob Arvey of Chicago, and David Lawrence of Pittsburgh.

Initially, Humphrey's support of civil rights led to his being ostracized by Southern Democrats, who dominated most of the Senate leadership positions and who wanted to punish Humphrey for proposing the successful civil rights platform at the 1948 Convention.

Humphrey's consistently cheerful and upbeat demeanor, and his forceful advocacy of liberal causes, led him to be nicknamed " The Happy Warrior " by many of his Senate colleagues and political journalists.

Their first meeting was in the Wisconsin Primary, where Kennedy's well-organized and well-funded campaign defeated Humphrey's energetic but poorly funded effort.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., the son of the former President, stumped for Kennedy in West Virginia and raised the issue of Humphrey's failure to serve in the armed forces in World War II ( though in fact Humphrey had tried to enlist ).

At the 1964 Democratic National Convention, Johnson kept the three likely vice presidential candidates, Connecticut Senator Thomas Dodd, fellow Minnesota Senator Eugene McCarthy, and Humphrey, as well as the rest of the nation in suspense before announcing Humphrey as his running-mate with much fanfare, praising Humphrey's qualifications for a considerable amount of time before announcing his name.

A quizzical smile spread across Humphrey's face, then turned to a laugh of triumph.

As Vice President, Humphrey was controversial for his complete and vocal loyalty to Johnson and the policies of the Johnson Administration, even as many of Humphrey's liberal admirers opposed Johnson with increasing fervor with respect to Johnson's policies during the war in Vietnam.

Humphrey's critics later learned that Johnson had threatened Humphrey — Johnson told Humphrey that if he publicly opposed his Administration's Vietnam War policy, he would destroy Humphrey's chances to become President by opposing his nomination at the next Democratic Convention.