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New Orleans had a notorious red-light district extending over twenty-eight city blocks, and the business-minded mayor of the city journeyed to Washington to present the case for `` the God-given right of men to be men ''.
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I had come to New Orleans two years earlier after graduating college, partly because I loved the city and partly because there was quite a noted art colony there.
There was something about the contour of her face, her smile that was like New Orleans sunshine, the way she held her head, the way she walked -- there was scarcely anything she did which did not fascinate me.
Although New Orleans was not to learn of it for a spell, she also was a sadist, a nymphomaniac and unobtrusively mad -- the perpetrator of some of the worst crimes against humanity ever committed on American soil.
The young William Faulkner in New Orleans in the 1920's impressed the novelist Hamilton Basso as obviously conscious of being a Southerner, and there is no evidence that since then he has ever considered himself any less so.
The two cities have the examples of Little Rock and New Orleans to hold up as warnings against resorting to violence to try to stop the processes of desegregation.
It met a serious rebuff in New Orleans, where the two schools selected for the first moves toward integration were boycotted by white parents.
Another attempt will be made this year in New Orleans to resume the program.
This dish much resembles the oysters Rockefeller made famous by Antoine's in New Orleans, though the Palace chef announced it as a variant of Manning's roast oysters.
One of the most delightful spots in a southern tour is the city of New Orleans.
One of the most significant advancements in design of plastics signs is the so-called trans-illuminated billboard, now being produced by several large sign manufacturers such as Advance Neon Sign Co., Los Angeles, and Industrial Electric Inc., New Orleans, La..
Early in January, 1844 he had a conference with Henry and William in New Orleans, and upon learning of Gorham's intention, Henry remonstrated calmly but firmly with his brother.
News of the legislative veto appeared in the New Orleans papers, and Henry and William became incensed by the fact that they had not been told of the attempt in advance.
Henry stormed into Giffen's office waving a copy of the New Orleans Courier, shouting that the emancipation scheme had become a public affair, and that it would reach the `` Ears of the People on the Plantation, and make them restless & unhappy ''.
Palfrey told his wife of his intentions for the first time, and left for New Orleans apprehensively invoking a special blessing of Providence that he might be allowed to see his family again.
Despite his apprehensions about his personal safety, Palfrey's reception in New Orleans was more than cordial.
He later told abolitionist Edmund Quincy of the `` marked attention and civility '' with which the New Orleans gentlemen and the upriver planters greeted him.
When a sailing date of March, 1845 was finally established, Palfrey made sure that the Negroes would have comfortable quarters in New Orleans and aboard ship.
On March 21, 1845 the bark Bashaw weighed anchor at New Orleans, while on the levee Henry and William Palfrey waved farewell to their father's former chattels who must have looked back at the receding shore with mingled regret and jubilation.
West of the Mobile district was the lower Mississippi district, of which New Orleans was headquarters.
Each of the five principal posts was to have a director, responsible to a director-general at New Orleans.
Only two principal storehouses were actually established -- one at Mobile, the other at New Orleans.
New Orleans supplied the goods for the trade on the Mississippi, and west of that river, and on the Ohio and Wabash.
Mobile was also supplied by New Orleans with goods for the Mobile district.
No mention of New Orleans.
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Had the situation been reversed, had, for instance, England been the enemy in 1898 because of issues of concern chiefly to New England, there is little doubt that large numbers of Southerners would have happily put on their old Confederate uniforms to fight as allies of Britain.
After he had spent the first three years in New York as associate conductor, at Toscanini's invitation, of the NBC Orchestra, he made numerous guest appearances throughout the United States and Latin America.
A friend of mine in New Mexico said the Court order had caused no particular trouble out there, that all had gone as merry as a marriage bell.
Lincoln was historian and economist enough to know that a substantial portion of this wealth had accumulated in the hands of the descendants of New Englanders engaged in the slave trade.
Isn't it a bit odd that the three states of Southern New England ( Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island ) have had state institutions of university status only in the very recent past, these institutions having previously been A & M colleges??
At the time of his capture Helion had on his person a sketchbook he had bought at Woolworth's in New York.
Between 1944 and 1947 Helion had a series of one-man shows -- at the Paul Rosenberg Gallery in New York and in Paris -- of his new realistic pictures.
While studying at the seminary in Andover, Adoniram had been working on a New Testament translation from the original Greek.
Born a Congregationalist, he had been baptized as a tiny baby in the usual manner by having a few drops of water sprinkled on his head, yet nowhere in the whole of the New Testament could he find a description of anybody being baptized by sprinkling.
Attorney Shearn had worked on this for two years and had succeeded in getting a report supporting his stand from the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
A lone pro-Hearst voice from New York City was that of William Devery, who had been expelled as a Tammany leader but still claimed strong influence in his own district.
Instead, he went down to New York and submitted Welcome To Our City to the Theatre Guild, which had asked him to let them have a look at it after Professor Baker had recommended it highly.
On returning to New York he had a job for several weeks ; ;
On the morning of November 17th, Cornwallis and 2,000 men had left Philadelphia with the object of capturing Fort Mercer at Red Bank, New Jersey.
Catherwood, an architect in New York, had been forgotten, like Stephens, and Victor reconstructed their lives as one reconstructs, for a museum, a dinosaur from two or three petrified bones.
He had unearthed Stephens's letters in a New Jersey farmhouse and he discovered Stephens's unmarked grave in an old cemetery on the east side of New York, where the great traveller had been hastily buried during a cholera epidemic.
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New Mexico's Clint Anderson offered a resolution to change the Senate's notorious Rule 22 to allow three-fifths of the Senators present and voting to cut off debate, instead of the current hard-to-get two-thirds.
Hearst was notorious for his practice of yellow journalism, and he was frowned on by readers of The New York Times and other newspapers which featured few or no comic strips.
In Sydney, protesters lay down in front of the car carrying Johnson and the Premier of New South Wales, Robert Askin ( prompting Askin's notorious order to " Run over the bastards ").
The latter became as famous as the best-known fourierist communes ( Brook Farm in Massachusetts & the North American Phalanx in New Jersey ) — in fact, Modern Times became downright notorious ( for “ Free Love ”) & finally foundered under a wave of scandalous publicity.
* Lochner v. New York, 198 U. S. 45 ( 1905 ), a notorious, and now defunct case by the US Supreme Court that regulation of working time ( for bakeries ) to limit workers to a 10-hour day.
A new generation of Australian garage rock bands, inspired mainly by The Stooges and MC5, was coming even closer to the sound that would soon be called " punk ": In Brisbane, The Saints also recalled the raw live sound of the British Pretty Things, who had made a notorious tour of Australia and New Zealand in 1965.
" Gramma ", a short story made into a film in the 1980s anthology horror show The New Twilight Zone, mentions Lovecraft's notorious fictional creation Necronomicon, also borrowing the names of a number of the fictional monsters mentioned therein.
The New York Times commented that she was " a sultry young country music singer who plays the notorious criminal Bonnie Parker and does for this musical what Reba McEntire did for the 1999 revival of Annie Get Your Gun.
* March 13 – In a notorious incident, 38 of her neighbors in Queens, New York City fail to respond to the cries of Kitty Genovese, 28, as she is being stabbed to death.
* November 4 – At Park Central Hotel in Manhattan, Arnold Rothstein, New York City's most notorious gambler, is shot to death over a poker game.
Likewise the notorious Lafitte brothers in New Orleans cruised under letters of marque secured by bribery from corrupt officials of tenuous Central American governments, or the briefly sovereign nation of Texas, to cloak plunder with a thin veil of legality.
The Detroit Red Wings disposed of the New York Americans in their first round best-of-three series two games to one ( even as the Americans had analytical and notorious ex-Bruins star Eddie Shore ) and the Toronto Maple Leafs ousted the Chicago Black Hawks two games to none.
" No bone unturned: Inside the world of a top forensic scientist and his work on America's most notorious crimes and disasters " New York: HarperCollinsPublishers, 2003.
Clerkenwell was also the location of three prisons: the Clerkenwell Bridewell, Coldbath Fields Prison ( later Clerkenwell Gaol ) and the New Prison, later the House of Detention, notorious as the scene of an attempted prison break in 1867 by Fenian rebels who sought to blow up part of the building.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York refused to grant Castellano a Catholic funeral, citing his notorious life and death.
: The Adventures of a notorious London Pickpocket, later Head Constable of the Infant Colony of New South Wales.
( 1965 ), a musical based on the Robin Hood legend, was a notorious flop and La Strada ( 1969 ), which opened on Broadway in New York City, closed after only one performance.
Heavenly Creatures is a 1994 New Zealand film directed by Peter Jackson, from a screenplay he co-wrote with his wife, Fran Walsh, about the notorious 1954 Parker – Hulme murder case in Christchurch, New Zealand.
He later became notorious among the younger generation for calling the New York Dolls " mock rock " and left OGWT in 1978.
* William Magear " Boss " Tweed ( 1823 – 1878 ), notorious New York political boss, member of the U. S. House of Representatives and New York State Senate
New York is notorious for its permissive filing system, in which the summons or complaint need not be filed at all.
During his career as a war chief, he was notorious for consistently urging raids upon Mexican Provinces and their towns, and later against American locations across Arizona, New Mexico and western Texas.
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