In Inside Africa, John Gunther describes one of these, the Societe Generale, as `` the kind of colossus that might be envisaged if, let us say, the House of Morgan, Anaconda Copper, the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and various companies producing agricultural products were lumped together, with the United States government as a heavy partner ''.

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* 1789 – In New York City, the United States House of Representatives holds its first quorum and elects Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania as its first House Speaker.

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According to the historian David O. Stewart, Cornelius Wendell led an acquittal committee, which met in the Astor House in New York ; it collected a bribery fund of up to $ 150, 000 to influence Senators into voting for Johnson's acquittal.

Sanford Meisner on Acting New York: Random House.

Three of his bronzes grace the grand staircase of the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City: Summer ( 1910 – 11 ), Venus Without Arms ( 1920 ), and Kneeling Woman: Monument to Debussy ( 1950 – 55 ).

As holder of one of the " five great sees " ( the others being York, London, Durham and Winchester ), the Archbishop of Canterbury is ex officio one of the Lords Spiritual of the House of Lords.

Feeling against Catholics, and especially against James, Duke of York, was running strongly ; the Exclusion Bill had been passed by the House of Commons, and the popularity of James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, was very great.

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The never – landmarked Yankee Stadium, the " House that Ruth Built " and home to the New York Yankees since 1923, has been replaced with a similar-looking ballpark just across 161st Street.

* Preston, Richard ( 2002 ), The Demon in the Freezer, New York: Random House.

* A bust and plaque located at his last residence, in New York City at 309 W. 57th Street, inscribed: " The Great Hungarian Composer / Béla Bartók / ( 1881 – 1945 ) / Made His Home In This House / During the Last Year of His Life ".

However, his next films, The Great Dictator ( 1940 ), a parody on Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini that ended in a dramatic speech criticising the blind following patriotic nationalism, and Monsieur Verdoux ( 1947 ), which criticised war and capitalism, as well as his first European film A King in New York ( 1957 ), which ridiculed the U. S. House Un-American Activities Committee, were more clearly political and caused controversy.

Discipline and Punish: the Birth of the Prison, New York: Random House.

Published in 1985, it is also known variously as Chapterhouse Dune, Chapter House Dune, and Chapter House: Dune, and rose to # 2 on The New York Times Best Seller list.

* Anonymous, " First portrait of an Africa-American on display at White House " New York Amsterdam News, 2 March 2000.

* Payne-Gallwey, Ralph, Sir, The Crossbow: Mediaeval and Modern, Military and Sporting ; its Construction, History & Management with a Treatise on the Balista and Catapult of the Ancients and An Appendix on the Catapult, Balista & the Turkish Bow, New York: Bramhall House, 1958.

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The next year he was transferred to nearby York Factory, and over the next few years spent time as a clerk at Cumberland House and South Branch House before arriving at Manchester House in 1787.

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Upon complaints from the Lower House of Convocation to the House of Lords, he was removed from the Privy Council, his remark having been represented as a blasphemous affront to the clergy.

Steele apparently professed his sentiments in this book too openly and honestly for his own good, since the government was soon to use it as evidence against him in his trial before the House.

Now and then, the President would call for `` Little Jack, Master of the Hounds '', which was his nickname for a messenger who had worked in the White House since Teddy Roosevelt's administration, and discuss the welfare of some one of the animals.

One White House dog was immortalized in a painting.

The first royalty whom Mama ever waited on in the White House was Queen Marie of Rumania, who came to a State dinner given in her honor on October 21, 1926.

She was not an overnight guest in the White House, but Mr. Ike Hoover, the chief usher, had Mama check her fur coat when she came in, and take care of her needs.

Mama was very patriotic, and one of the duties she was proudest of was repairing the edges of the flag that flew above the White House.

This was not before the House but before the Judiciary Committee, where he asked for action on one of his pet bills, that calling for an investigation of the coal-railroad monopoly.

He was the House pariah.

He soon quarreled with all the party leaders in the House, and came to be regarded with detestation by regular Democrats as a professional radical leading a small pack of obedient terriers whose constant snapping was demoralizing to party discipline.

In the judgment of Chief of Staff Scott it was ironic that the draft policy of a Democratic President, aimed at Germany, had to be pushed through the House of Representatives by the ranking minority member of the Military Affairs Committee -- a Republican Jew born in Germany!!

The House was his habitat and there he flourished, first as a young representative, then as a forceful committee chairman, and finally in the post for which he seemed intended from birth, Speaker of the House, and second most powerful man in Washington.

He was, of course, in the House for a very long time.

And it was the House he loved.

Some reports say he was rescued from timely retirement by his friend, Congressman Walter of Pennsylvania, at a moment when the Kennedy Administration was diligently searching for all the House votes it could get.

Not only is Mr. Frelinghuysen a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, but he is the grandson of the man who was instrumental in opening relations between the United States and Korea, Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, Secretary of State in the administration of Chester A. Arthur.

It was called Kent House.

But this situation of Kent House was more subtle.

There was no room for company in the tiny Weaning House ( where the Albright boys always took their brides, till they could get a house and a farm of their own ).

On April 25, the White House reported that a total embargo of remaining U.S. trade with Cuba was being considered.