After complimenting Morgan and the riflemen and saying he was praising them to Congress, too, the ardent Frenchman added he felt that Congress should make some financial restitution to the widow and family of Morris, but that he knew Morgan realized how long such action usually required, if it was done at all.

Mr. Truman has only to recall the `` hopeless '' campaign of 1948 to remember what a loyal partisan he was and the first experience of Mr. Kennedy with Congress would have been sadder than it was had not Mr. Sam been there.

That breach was healed 20 years later by merger of the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations.

The Twenty-second Soviet Communist Party Congress opens in Moscow today in a situation contrasting sharply with the script prepared many months ago when this meeting was first announced.

He was delighted to learn that the Post Office Department is now going to expand this service to deliver mail from Representatives in Congress to their constituents without the use of stamps, names, addresses or even zone numbers.

Mr. Dwyer said that although it was obvious that Mr. Rayburn was not well he stopped, gave the youngster his autograph, asked where he was from and expressed the hope that he would enjoy his visit to Congress.

The program was instituted in 1940, and releases are available only from the Recording Laboratory of the Library of Congress, Washington 25, D.C..

It seems that Khrushchev himself took a very special pride in having made a world-shaking contribution to Marxist doctrine with his Draft Program ( a large part of his twelve-hour speech at the recent Congress was, in fact, very largely a rehash of that interminable document ).

The news of battle on Breed's Hill had already seeped through, and New York itself was now left in the hands of the local Provincial Congress.

The Congress of Vienna is a convenient starting point because it both epitomized and symbolized what was to follow.

Thus the Congress marks a formal recognition of the political system that was central to world politics for a century.

It was defeated in Congress last year.

But with the convening of the new Congress, he was the public man again, presiding over the Senate until John Kennedy's Inauguration.

The American Constitution was historic at this point in providing that `` Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof ''.

The departure of the Southerners gave Lincoln's party firm control of Congress, but no formula for compromise or reconciliation was found, and the war came.

Lincoln demanded that Polk show Congress the exact spot on which blood had been shed and prove that the spot was on American soil.

Lincoln was supported by Congress and the northern public for these actions.

By December 1863 a proposed constitutional amendment that would outlaw slavery absolutely was brought to Congress for passage.

After a long debate in the House, a second attempt passed Congress on January 13, 1865, and was sent to the state legislatures for ratification.

I pay my personal tribute to Sam Rayburn, stalwart Texan and great American, not only because today he establishes a record of having served as Speaker of the House of Representatives more than twice as long as Henry Clay, but because of the contributions he has made to the welfare of the people of the Nation during his almost half century of service as a Member of Congress.

Carnegie's personal papers reside at the Library of Congress Manuscript Division.

Although at first the disagreement appeared to be minor and inspired by personal conflicts, for example, Lenin's insistence on dropping less active editorial board members from Iskra or Martov's support for the Organizing Committee of the Congress which Lenin opposed, the differences quickly grew and the split became irreparable.

Much of his personal correspondence with those and other figures is featured in the book The Groucho Letters ( 1967 ) with an introduction and commentary on the letters written by Groucho, who donated his letters to the Library of Congress.

Indira herself was at loggerheads with her father over policy ; most notably, she used his oft-stated personal deference to the Congress Working Committee to push through the dismissal of the Communist Party of India government in the state of Kerala, over his own objections.

Other archives are held at the University of Illinois at Chicago ( personal book collection ), the Canadian Center for Architecture ( drawings and photos ) in Montreal, the Newberry Library in Chicago ( personal correspondence ), the Library of Congress in Washington D. C.

This initiated an inherently weak presidency — hardly a formidable obstacle to Somoza as he set about building his personal influence over Congress and the ruling Liberal Party.

On the basis of this requirement, application of the income tax to income derived from real estate and specifically income in the form of dividends from personal property ownership such as stock shares was found to be unconstitutional because it was not apportioned among the states ; that is to say, there was no guarantee that a State with 10 % of the country's population paid 10 % of those income taxes collected, because Congress had not fixed an amount of money to be raised and apportioned it between the States according to their respective shares of the national population.

In the spring of 1852, he traveled in to Washington, DC in a failed attempt to prevail upon the Congress to rescind an order that he, in his capacity as quartermaster, reimburse the military $ 1000 in losses incurred on his watch, for which he bore no personal guilt.

The career history and archival material from Ella's long career are housed in the Archives Center at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, while her personal music arrangements are at The Library of Congress.

He used his own personal finances when money from Congress was scarce, in order to assure his forces of the finest equipment and personal safety.

* The Hannah Arendt Papers collection at the Library of Congress contains her personal archive, with scanned portions available on the internet.

Ratzeburg briefly was part of the First French Empire during the Napoleonic Wars, afterwards the Duchy of ( Saxe -) Lauenburg was awarded in personal union to the Danish crown in the Congress of Vienna.

As the King's personal envoy, he successfully lobbied the United States Congress to approve the sale of F-15s to Saudi Arabia.

* On June 22, 2012 George Washington ‘ s personal annotated copy of the “ Acts Passed at a Congress of the United States of America ” from 1789, which includes The Constitution of the United States and a draft of the Bill of Rights, was sold at Christie ’ s for a record $ 9, 826, 500, with fees the final cost, to The Mount Vernon Ladies ' Association.

In 1966, Congress enacted the Bail Reform Act of 1966, which changes that by giving non-capital defendants a statutory right where a Constitutional right is lacking, to be released, pending trial, on his personal recognizance or on personal bond, unless the judicial officer determines that such incentives will not adequately assure his appearance at trial.

:: When, therefore, this court adjudges, as it does now adjudge, that Congress cannot impose a duty or tax upon personal property, or upon income arising either from rents of real estate or from personal property, including invested personal property, bonds, stocks, and investments of all kinds, except by apportioning the sum to be so raised among the States according to population, it practically decides that, without an amendment of the Constitution — two-thirds of both Houses of Congress and three-fourths of the States concurring — such property and incomes can never be made to contribute to the support of the national government.

The Congress was regarded as a diplomatic triumph for Vergennes and he received praise from Newcastle for his skills.

The relative political fortunes of Gladstone and Hartington fluctuated-Gladstone was not popular at the time of Benjamin Disraeli's triumph at the Congress of Berlin, but the Midlothian Campaigns of 1879-80 marked him out as the Liberals ' foremost public campaigner.

His triumph at the Congress were soon undermined by his failure to secure Austrian backing.

When the Republicans gained a majority of seats in the 104th Congress, the Contract was seen as a triumph by Party leaders such as Minority Whip Newt Gingrich, Dick Armey, and the American conservative movement in general.

The Brazilian Revolution of 1930, that marked the end of the Old Republic ( with the deposition of President Washington Luís ; the abrogation of the country's 1891 Constitution with a view to the establishment of a new constitutional order ; the dissolution of the National Congress ; Federal intervention in State governments and the alteration of the political landscape, with the suppression of the hegemony until then enjoyed by the oligarchies of São Paulo and Minas Gerais ), signals the beginning of the Vargas Era ( given that, upon the triumph of the Revolution, a provisional military junta ceded power to Vargas, recognized as the leader of the revolutionary movement ).

The Political Constitution of the United Mexican States was redacted by the Constitutional Congress convoked by Venustiano Carranza in September 1916 after the triumph of the Constitutional Army.

The midterm elections that year were a triumph for the GOP, narrowing the partisan gap in Congress.

The victory is seen as a personal triumph for the 37-year-old Jagan, who termed the election " a battle between Congress president Sonia Gandhi and self-respect of the people of Kadapa ".

That same day, the Congress of Angostura created the Greater Colombian Army after the triumph over the Spanish, to replace the disbanded Commoners Army.