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How in the world had he formerly found time to build up a business, raise a family, be on half a dozen boards, work actively on committees and either go out in the evening or plow through the contents of a bulging brief case??
This brief resume hardly does the book justice, but I heartily recommend it to all those who are engages with the major problems of our time.
Leonard J. Farwell, a fellow boarder at the Kirkwood House, awoke Johnson with news of Lincoln's having been shot at Ford's Theater ; Johnson rushed to the President's deathbed for a brief time, commenting, " They shall suffer for this.
He also gives a brief account of the constitution of a Roman army at that time.
After graduation and a brief sojourn at the Military School of Paris Napoleon applied for second-lieutenancy in the artillery regiment of La Fère at Valence and after a time was given the position.
During his brief time in Málaga, he was able to amass local support quickly.
The previous Belarusian National Republic of March 1918 to 1919 did not have time to create armed forces in its brief existence, although attempts to create a military have been documented.
Both leagues are considered major leagues by many baseball researchers because of the perceived high caliber of play ( for a brief time anyway ) and the number of star players featured.
At the time of his birth, Chaplin's parents were both entertainers in the music hall tradition: Hannah, the daughter of a shoemaker, had a brief and unsuccessful career under the stage name Lily Harley, while Charles Sr., a butcher's son, worked as a popular singer.
Coins of interest to collectors often include those that circulated for only a brief time, coins with mint errors and especially beautiful or historically significant pieces.
For a brief time in Europe, an unusual form of cannibalism occurred when thousands of Egyptian mummies preserved in bitumen were ground up and sold as medicine.
Although Cetus is not generally considered part of the zodiac, the ecliptic passes close to its constellation boundary, and thus the planets may be seen in Cetus for brief periods of time.
The ancient historian Tacitus describes Domitian's first speech in the Senate as brief and measured, at the same time noting his ability to elude awkward questions.
During this time she was spotted by a producer during a brief appearance on TV's The Gong Show.
For a brief time Morris held small jobs, first as a cable television salesman and then as a term-paper writer.
He realised that with most printing telegraphs of the period the line is idle for most of the time, apart from the brief intervals when a character is transmitted.
Although those programs included years of research and work, ELIZA remains a milestone simply because it was the first time a programmer had attempted such a human-machine interaction with the goal of creating the illusion ( however brief ) of human-human interaction.
At the same time, the system's commercial regimentation and focus on glamorous escapism discouraged daring and ambition beyond a certain degree, a prime example being the brief but still legendary directing career of the iconoclastic Erich von Stroheim in the late teens and the ‘ 20s.
* Photo of Ford Madox Brown's grave and a brief article about his time in Finchley
Despite the movie's poor box office and critical reception at the time of its original release, it is gradually becoming a favorite among fans due to its dark nature, brief but entertaining kaiju battles, and the return of series veterans Ishiro Honda and Akira Ifukube.
He was the team's second-leading scorer, helping the Sounders make it to the playoffs for the first time in their brief history, with 8 goals and 4 assists in 23 regular season games, and 1 goal in the playoffs.
Gin emerged in England in varying forms as of the early 17th century, and at the time of the Restoration, enjoyed a brief resurgence.
Because of their size and need to migrate, gray whales have rarely been held in captivity, and then only for brief periods of time.
During Borgrán's brief time in office, he had agreed to a United States proposal to invite a United States financial adviser to Honduras.
He was also archon in Athens for a brief time, and was elected an Athenian citizen.

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Eisenhower valued the brief respites and the amenities of an office which he endowed with an arduous daily schedule.
After a brief but serious illness, the Johore government reassigned Gardner to an office in the Lands Office while he recovered, eventually being promoted to Principal Officer of Customs.
After a brief period of communal recreation, the monk could retire to rest until the office of None at 3pm.
In 1926, after the brief War of the Stray Dog, the Tsar persuaded Tsankov to resign, a more moderate government under Andrey Lyapchev took office and an amnesty was proclaimed
As Prime Minister Peel issued the Tamworth Manifesto ( 1834 ) during his brief first stint in office, leading to the formation of the Conservative Party out of the shattered Tory Party ; in his second stint he repealed the Corn Laws.
" One of Johnson's aides, Joseph A. Califano, Jr., has countered that " from 1963 when Lyndon Johnson took office until 1970 as the impact of his Great Society programs were felt, the portion of Americans living below the poverty line dropped from 22. 2 percent to 12. 6 percent, the most dramatic decline over such a brief period in this century.
Shortly after leaving office in 1994, Salinas staged a brief hunger strike to protest the arrest of his older brother Raúl Salinas de Gortari ( see below ) as well as the accusations of responsibility for the country's economic travails that his successor as President, Ernesto Zedillo, aimed at him.
" We were given a brief and basically told to design the next-generation office chair ," Chadwick said.
He was the only surviving ex-president since he left office until the end of Jacques Chirac's term on 16 May 2007, with the exception of a brief period between François Mitterrand's retirement in 1995 and death in early 1996.
The office of the Solicitor General argues on behalf of the government in virtually every case in which the United States is a party, and also argues in most of the cases in which the government has filed an amicus brief.
( Since leaving office Paesel has served on the Third Regional Airport Clearinghouse and now serves as Executive Director of the South Suburban Mayor and Managers Association and served a brief period in 2006 as District 168 Board Member ).
After a brief closure in 1898, the post office reopened as " Jackpine " from 1898 to 1908.
Chinese miners took over from whites when the mines began to play out in 1868, and the town saw a brief revival after the arrival of the railroads and the establishment of a post office in the 1880s.
One episode has a brief shot of his office showing that Klink has a pompous coat of arms on his wall.
And they further – further, the point was that if and when they would be used, they would brief Congress at that time " Pelosi's office stated that she later protested the technique and that she concurred with objections raised by Democratic colleague Jane Harman in a letter to the CIA in early 2003.
For a brief period from 1936 to 1937, following the abolition of the office of Governor-General, certain of the Governor-General's functions were transferred to the Ceann Comhairle, who was assigned the role of signing bills into law and convening and dissolving the Dáil.
The film received favorable reviews but made poor box office revenues, a failure which Hawke has admitted caused him to quit acting for a brief period after the film's release.
" However, looking back across Home's career, The Times considered that his reputation rested not on his brief premiership, but on his two spells as Foreign Secretary: " He brought to the office ... his capacity for straight talking, for toughness towards the Soviet Union and for firmness ( sometimes interpreted as a lack of sympathy ) towards the countries of Africa and Asia.
During her brief time in office, Finland was the only country in the world to have women as both prime minister and president, a situation underlined by the fact that half of her cabinet were women.
As a consequence Brüning announced his cabinet's resignation on 30 May 1932, " hundred metres before the finish ", and was relieved of his office in an undignifiedly brief ceremony by Hindenburg.
Fortunately for English literature, Cobham's service in the office is brief: he dies the next year, 1597.
For a brief period in the 1980s, the office was retitled Minister for External Relations.

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