His first important commission was for two viaducts for the railway line between Lyons and Bordeaux, and the company also began to undertake work in other countries, including the church of San Marcos in Arica, Chile, which was an all-metal prefabricated building, manufactured in France and shipped to South America in pieces to be assembled on site.

He appointed a commission that set aside 3, 000, 000 acres ( 12, 000 km² ) of national parks and 2, 300, 000 acres of national forests ; advocated tax reduction for low-income Americans ( not enacted ); closed certain tax loopholes for the wealthy ; doubled the number of veterans ' hospital facilities ; negotiated a treaty on St. Lawrence Seaway ( which failed in the U. S. Senate ); wrote a Children's Charter that advocated protection of every child regardless of race or gender ; created an antitrust division in the Justice Department ; required air mail carriers to adopt stricter safety measures and improve service ; proposed federal loans for urban slum clearances ( not enacted ); organized the Federal Bureau of Prisons ; reorganized the Bureau of Indian Affairs ; instituted prison reform ; proposed a federal Department of Education ( not enacted ); advocated $ 50-per-month pensions for Americans over 65 ( not enacted ); chaired White House conferences on child health, protection, homebuilding and home-ownership ; began construction of the Boulder Dam ( later renamed Hoover Dam ); and signed the Norris – La Guardia Act that limited judicial intervention in labor disputes.

On 4 July of the same year, he began work on a commission for Cardinal Raffaele Riario, an over-life-size statue of the Roman wine god Bacchus.

When World War I began, Menzies was 19 years old and held a commission in the university's militia unit.

Taft then began serving on the newly created United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in 1891 ; he was confirmed by the Senate on March 17, 1892, and received his commission that same day.

In 2002, the government established a commission to coordinate cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia ( ICTY ) and began serving warrants for the arrest of indicted war criminals who have sought refuge in the country.

One year after his commission, he began service in World War I.

When Mme de Maintenon began questioning the orthodoxy of Mme Guyon's opinions, an ecclesiastical commission of three members, including Bossuet, was appointed to report on the matter.

Following his commission, Calley was assigned to Company C, 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Infantry Brigade, and began training at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, in preparation for deployment to Vietnam.

He began his own practice in 1888, his first commission being a private house at Crooksbury, Farnham, Surrey.

Following discussions that expanded the book twice more — finally closing on 33 topics and 427 quotations by Mao — the commission began publishing the definitive version in May 1965.

While reluctant to undertake such a major project, he was persuaded in 1975 to accept the commission and began work on his Saint-François d ' Assise.

In 2002, the commission began searching Iraq for weapons of mass destruction, ultimately finding none.

Returning to Ireland in 1829, he was unable to obtain a military commission so began his own further education.

In 1957 he began work on government commission for Chapultepec Castle in Mexico City ; Del porfirismo a la Revolución was his biggest mural yet.

Some airlines began to commission designs from high-end department stores and still others called in noted designers or even milliners to create distinctive and attractive apparel.

In 1837 he resigned his commission and began to write for the stage and for the press.

Holding Lambert in play without fighting until Lambert's army began to melt away for want of pay, Monck received the commission of commander-in-chief of the parliamentary forces on 24 November 1659.

Following Lee's joining of the commission, MCI began a series of submissions including a proposal for a low-cost educational television network designed to show MCI as being more flexible to public needs than AT & T.

In June 1715 ( in which year work on the upper hall began ) the Weekly Packet said that the decision to award Thornhill the commission would " put to silence all the loud applauses hitherto given to foreign artists ".

In 1965, Eugene's first planning commission began to question decades of promotion by chambers of commerce and developers.

Pope Pius XII also began reforming the Roman Breviary, allowing use of a new translation of the Psalms and establishing a special commission to study a general revision, with a view to which all the Catholic bishops were consulted in 1955.

He was possibly too successful, and began to make enemies among his own superiors, was recalled to London in January 1921 and resigned his commission

Cram and Goodhue complemented each others ' strengths at first but began to compete, sometimes submitting two differing proposals for the same commission.

The fresco of The Last Judgment on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel was commissioned by Pope Clement VII, who died shortly after assigning the commission.

In the beginning of April 1933, shortly after the National Socialist government took power, a report by a German governmental commission was presented on fighting the Jews.

In 1678 he became captain in the Guards, with which he served in Tangier ; in 1685 he was made lieutenant-colonel of a regiment of fusiliers, but gave up his commission shortly after the accession of James II.

This was a good start for the young artist, who shortly received a commission from Lord Mulgrave and an introduction to Sir George Beaumont.

The Irish perspective was that this was intended to allow largely nationalist areas of Northern Ireland to join the Free State, and shortly after the establishment of the Free State this commission came into being.

Admitted to the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres in 1837, he was shortly afterwards appointed on the commission entrusted with the continuation of the Histoire littéraire de la France.

The destruction of records occurred either in October 1983 ( according to the records officer ), or in 1981 shortly after Bush became Vice President of the United States ( according to, Wison Carpenter, a record analyst with the commission ).

He retired shortly afterwards, owing to his distaste for the lawless habits of his comrades in the irregulars, and after long waiting in poverty for a regular commission he was at last made a captain in one of the frontier regiments, spending the next ten years in half-military, half-administrative work in the Karlovac district on the Military Frontier.

Colonel Lennox shortly after exchanged his company for the commission of Lieutenant-Colonel in the 35th Regiment of Foot.

Nog receives a commission as ensign shortly before Starfleet retakes Deep Space Nine during the Dominion War (" Favor the Bold ").

In August 1919 Portal was appointed to a permanent commission in the Royal Air Force in the rank of major ( shortly afterwards redesignated as a squadron leader ).

Being thus radically at variance with the main current of the thought of his time, the failure of the commission he had undertaken was sooner or later inevitable ; and shortly after the opening of his new church in Regent Square in 1827, he found that fashion had taken its departure, and the church, though always well filled, was no longer crowded.

Lord Sandwich, then at the head of the Admiralty, would not promise him the immediate command of a ship however, and he resigned his commission shortly before the beginning of the American War of Independence.

After serving on the commission to prepare the initiation of the new constitution he became in July 1795 president of the Assembly, and shortly afterwards a member of the Committee of Public Safety.

In 1781, shortly after Mozart had moved to Vienna, van Swieten met him again: at the salon of Countess Thun, Mozart played extracts from his recent opera Idomeneo, with van Swieten and other important officials in the audience ; this event helped instigate Mozart's commission for the opera The Abduction from the Seraglio, his first great success as a composer.

In 1734, shortly before taking up the post, he had won a major commission from the City, for the Mansion House, the new residence for the Lord Mayor.

Le Sueur sailed to France to secure a commission to serve as a local magistrate in what is now Alabama, but died of yellow fever shortly after his return in 1704.

His father, Carl Neuburg ( b. 1857 in Pilsen, Bohemia ), a commission agent from Vienna, abandoned the family shortly after his birth.

The final report was delivered in September 2004, and shortly afterwards the commission was terminated, as scheduled by the Oceans Act.

As his father did not take part in this important commission, it is thought that he had died shortly before that date.

On November 20, 1933, shortly after the commission found Polhemus and his staff guilty, professional auditor Frank Akin was found shot to death.

He even went so far as to side with his colleagues, when serious difficulties arose between the new government and the president of the Cortes, Señor Martos, who was backed by a very imposing commission composed of the most influential conservative members of the last parliament of the Savoyard king, which had suspended its sittings shortly after proclaiming the federal republic.

Breathitt struck back with accusations that, as a senator, Chandler had voted in favor of declaring war on Japan during World War II, but resigned his army commission shortly thereafter.

Ellington's role was re-designated as Director-General of Supply and Research in April 1919 and, having been appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire on 3 June 1919, he was awarded a permanent commission in the Royal Air Force as a major-general in August 1919 ( shortly afterwards redesignated as a air vice marshal ).