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Amy Crawford, in Smithsonian Magazine, stated that modern historians such as William Gilmore Simms and Hugh Rankin have written accurate biographies of Marion, including Simms “ The Life of Francis Marion .” The introduction to the 2007 edition of Simms ' book was written by Sean Busick, a professor of American history at Athens State University in Alabama, who wrote,
The first scheduled train departed from the Washington depot carrying " borough authorities, the committee of arrangement and reception, as well as Rankin s Cornet Band and a number of … prominent citizens who had been invited to join the excursion.
It was during this time that the foundations of Rankin s pacifism were laid.
Wellington D. Rankin, a power in the Montana Republican party and Jeannette Rankin s brother, helped to manage her first campaign for the party nomination in the Congressional election of 1916 and in the general election.
Women s rights activist Carrie Chapman Catt and a majority of the women s suffragists considered Rankin s vote against war to be a handicap to the women s movement.
By placing herself in a situation of ridicule, Catt and her fellow suffragists saw Rankin s vote as a discredit to her authority in Congress.
However, there was a minority of women s activists such as Alice Paul of the National Woman's Party who applauded Rankin s vote.
Paul understood Rankin s opinionated vote as a display of the good women could do with the achievement of authority and power in politics.
So began the deep controversies that would reign over Rankin s politics and Congressional participation for the rest of her career.
The overwhelming dissatisfaction with Rankin s vote to remain outside of the war resulted in her unsuccessful campaign for the Republican nomination to represent Montana in the United States Senate in 1918.
Following her first term in Congress, Rankin accepted Florence Kelley s invitation to be field secretary for the National Consumers League, while also spending the next years pushing for reform legislation to promote maternal and child health care.
Living in a single room cabin without electricity, Rankin s presence in Georgia was not met with welcome.
With her term ending in 1943, Rankin knew she didn t have the support to win another election, and so she returned home to Montana to care for her aging mother.
In addition to her being newly praised for her pacifism, the 1960s and 1970s were decades in which a new wave of feminism idolized Rankin for her efforts in women s rights.
Like Hanna-Barbera, Rankin / Bass isolated several snippets of canned chuckles from Douglass library, and inserted them onto the soundtrack.
The reviewer mentioned that when asked to think of holiday specials, " the first thing that popped into my head wasn t nostalgia for my Rankin / Bass-and Chuck Jones-filled youth.
Similarly, Rankin was a constant source of revitalization and support to Fogal s own political and legal efforts.
The North West Shelf Venture s offshore production facilities include the North Rankin A, Goodwyn A and Angel platforms, and the oil producing Cossack Pioneer floating production storage and offloading facility ( FPSO ).
It was originally named Gordon Hall after Mrs. McCormick s grandson, but was rededicated in the 1950s at the request of Cyrus McCormick II and renamed in honor of senior professor Thomas S. Rankin.

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Built as a men s dormitory, today Rankin houses the Athletic Department, the Center for Civic Advancement, and classrooms.
In his Post columns, Welles wrote that the social reforms in post-war Germany would not eradicate Fascism ; Nazi believers were ' laying the fuel for another conflagration ...' In one of the film s strongest scenes, Mr. Wilson and Kindler / Rankin join the Longstreets for dinner.
In 2007 Armstrong s first opera was premiered as part of the Scottish Opera, titled ‘ 5: 15-Opera s made in Scotland ’, a 15min opera with a libretto by Ian Rankin.

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The 1843 election was fought on a political level between John T. Williston of Chatham ( supported by local entrepreneur Joseph Cunard of Chatham, brother of Samuel Cunard ) and John Ambrose Street of Newcastle ( backed by the prominent lumber baron, Alexander Rankin of Douglastown ).
The Rankin and Cunard factions literally fought the election in the streets of Newcastle and Chatham with sticks, stones, coal and other missiles.
Upon the death of Senator Theodore Bilbo in 1947, Stennis won the special election to fill the vacancy, winning the seat from a field of five candidates ( including two sitting Congressmen: John E. Rankin and William M. Colmer ).
Craig Anthony Emerson ( born 15 November 1954 ), Australian politician, has represented the House of Representatives seat of Rankin in Queensland for the Australian Labor Party since the 1998 federal election.
In the 2008 general election Republicans looked to take back the district, and fielded attorney Timothy Rankin to take on Celeste.
Rankin was appointed as interim leader of the Communist Party of Canada-Ontario in April 1995, and led the party in the 1995 provincial election.
Rankin moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1995, after the Ontario election.
First proclaimed in 1984, Rankin has elected a member of the Labor Party at every election since inception.
However, with the transfer of the rural hinterland to Forde, Rankin became a much safer Labor seat, being one of only two Queensland seats the ALP retained in the 1996 election.
In the general election, he narrowly defeated his Republican opponent, Wellington D. Rankin, by a margin of 50 %- 49 %.
Rankin was elected to the Senate in the 1946 election, as a representative of the Liberal Party.
The Electoral Division of Rankin, which came into effect at the 1984 election, is named in her honour.

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Solicitors must be careful when looking at older cases when quantifying a claim to ensure that the award is brought up to date and to take into account the court of appeal case in Heil v Rankin Generally speaking the greater the injury the greater the damages awarded.
On May 2, 1946, after Braddock Township had already been broken up into the boroughs of Swissvale, North Braddock, and Rankin, the remaining area incorporated itself as Braddock Hills.
The discovery of the Yates Oil Field in adjacent Pecos County in 1926 converted Rankin into a boom town.
Jeannette Pickering Rankin is most widely known as the first woman elected into Congress.
In 1925 Rankin further showed her dedication to her political positions by moving into a rustic cabin near Athens, Georgia.
Rankin said it was possible that his new character, Inspector Fox, may either bump into Rebus or end up on an investigation that has something to do with a skeleton in Rebus's closet.
A lot of Rebus's character foibles are glossed over in the adaptations, for example his large LP collection and the frequent popular music references and thoughts that Ian Rankin weaves into the stories.
In 2009 Rankin stated on Radio Five Live that he would start work on a five or six-issue run on the comic book Hellblazer, although he may turn the story into a stand-alone graphic novel instead.
Rankin led the CPC-M into the 1999 and 2003 elections, in which it ran six and five candidates respectively.
Doctor Daniel Reid Rankin is remembered by a plaque in Rankin Square with etchings of fossils carved into the granite.
* 1968: The song was adapted into an animated television special by Rankin / Bass.
The concept was turned into a Rankin / Bass animated special, The Coneheads, in 1983, and a movie, Coneheads, in 1993, with Aykroyd and Curtin reprising their roles in both.
Rankin became the first player voted into the LPGA Tour Hall of Fame in 2000 under the veterans category, and she was also inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2000.
The House charged that Ritter had planned with Rankin and others to put Whitehall ( the former Henry Morrison Flagler mansion and then a hotel, and now a museum ) into receivership, and had given Rankin an " exorbitant fee " of $ 75, 000, keeping $ 4, 500 of it.
Frank Rankin was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame as a player in 1961.
A companion extension, Adblock Filterset. G Updater, was created for it by Micheal McDonald and Reid Rankin in order to simplify the task of keeping the latest list updates loaded into Adblock, which did not contain update functionality at the time.
The title story was adapted into a short film in 1996, which starred Arsinée Khanjian, Dan Lett, Claire Rankin and Peter Outerbridge.
When Hook offered to resign if Rankin would also "... for the good of the country ," Rankin " held his tongue " and the controversial exchange faded into obscurity.
Rankin had just delivered a House floor speech accusing " international Jewish brethren " of trying to drag American into World War II.

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