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The board of suspension of the Interstate Commerce commission has ordered a group of railroads not to reduce their freight rates on grain, as they had planned to do this month.
In Alabama Public Service Commission v. Southern Ry. Co., the commission had refused to permit abandonment of certain `` uneconomic '' train facilities.
A publicity release from Oregon Physicians Service, of which Harvey is president, quoted him as saying the welfare office move to Salem, instead of `` crippling '' the agency, had provided an avenue to correct administrative weaknesses, with the key being improved communications between F & A and the commission staff.
she was already considering putting in rebellious requests for duty at San Diego, Bremerton, the Great Lakes, Pensacola -- any place the Navy had a hospital -- with a threat to resign her commission if the request were not granted.
This was the last commission entrusted to him, since Peter had not been satisfied with his son's performance and his lack of enthusiasm.
Algardi's first major commission came about in 1634, when Cardinal Ubaldini ( Medici ) contracted for a funeral monument for his great-uncle, Pope Leo XI, the third of the Medici popes, who had reigned for less than a month in 1605.
The original commission that reached Salieri in 1783 – 84 was to assist Gluck in finishing a work for Paris that had been all but completed ; in reality, Gluck had failed to notate any of the score for the new opera and gave the entire project over to his young friend.
John Wesley, the founder of the movement, was not prepared to allow unordained preachers to administer the sacraments: " We believe it would not be right for us to administer either Baptism or the Lord's Supper unless we had a commission so to do from those Bishops whom we apprehend to be in a succession from the Apostles.
Berg had interrupted the orchestration of Lulu because of an unexpected ( and financially much-needed ) commission from the Russian-American violinist Louis Krasner for a Violin Concerto ( 1935 ).
Two aircraft carriers, and were simultaneously in commission and in operation during World War II, and Franklin therefore had the distinction of having two simultaneously operational US Navy warships named in his honor.
On learning of the commission, William Burn sought an interview with the Prince, apparently to complain that Smith had plagiarised his work in the past.
Moreover, an African judicial commission reported that he had " almost certainly " taken part in the massacre of some 100 children for refusing to wear the compulsory school uniforms.
By the spring of 1918, the commission had several teams.
He had initially accepted a commission to write a book on compilers which would later become the multi-volume The Art of Computer Programming.
Because of legal issues related to holding a military rank while in a civilian office, Eisenhower had resigned his permanent commission as General of the Army before entering the office of President of the United States.
On November 18, von Hindenburg testified in front of this parliamentary commission, and cited a December 17, 1918 Neue Zürcher Zeitung article that summarized two earlier articles in the Daily Mail by British General Frederick Barton Maurice with the phrase that the German army had been ' dagger-stabbed from behind by the civilian populace ' (" von der Zivilbevölkerung von hinten erdolcht .").
Barth also shows that the term was primarily popularized by the patriotic German newspaper Deutsche Tageszeitung that repeatedly quoted the Neue Zürcher article after Hindenburg had referred to it in front of the parliamentary inquiry commission.
The majority of cinemas had been in the corridor between Moscow and St. Petersburg, and most were out of commission.
Gradually, Bacon earned the standing of one of the learned counsels, though he had no commission or warrant and received no salary.
By 1798, relations with France had deteriorated to the point that war seemed imminent, and on July 4, 1798, President Adams offered Washington a commission as lieutenant general and Commander-in-chief of the armies raised or to be raised for service in a prospective war.
Kerr determined that he had both the right and the duty to dismiss the government and commission a new government that would recommend a dissolution of the Parliament.
Tiberius's land reform commission continued distributing lands, albeit much slower than Tiberius had envisaged, as Senators were able to eliminate more of its supporters by legal means.
Eliot spent the next two years editing Lewes's final work Life and Mind for publication, and she found solace with John Walter Cross, a Scottish commission agent whose mother had recently died.

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As such, the Australian monarch approves with commission issued under the royal sign-manual and Public Seal of the State her New South Wales Premier's recommendation for viceroy, who is from then until being sworn-in referred to as the governor-designate.
Paul VI himself, even as commission members issued their personal views over the years, always reaffirmed the teachings of the Church, repeating them more than once in the first years of his Pontificate.
In addition to the 47 questions, the commission issued no findings of its own.
The final report of the South African Truth and Reconciliation commission, issued in 1998, found " Ms Winnie Madikizela Mandela politically and morally accountable for the gross violations of human rights committed by the MUFC.
As such, the Canadian monarch approves with commission issued under the royal sign-manual and Great Seal of Canada her Canadian prime minister's recommendation for viceroy, who is from then until being sworn-in referred to as the governor general-designate.
The commission issued a printed summary entitled Compendium novae rationis restituendi kalendarium ( Compendium of a New Plan for the Restitution of the Calendar ), printed in 1577 and circulated within the Roman Catholic world in early 1578 as a consultation document.
After a delegation from Massachusetts ( which had issued Arnold's commission ) arrived to clarify the matter, Arnold resigned his commission and departed, leaving the fort in Hinman's hands.
Books that London issued on commission ( paid for by their authors or by some learned body ) were styled ' Henry Frowde ', or ' Humphrey Milford ' with no mention of OUP, as if the Publisher were issuing them himself, while books that the Publisher issued under the rubric of the University bore the imprint ' Oxford University Press '.
Since California considers “ all persons concerned in the commission of a crime, whether they directly commit the act constituting the offense … principals in any crime so committed ,” San Marin County Superior Judge Peter Allen Smith charged Davis with “ aggravated kidnapping and first degree murder in the death of Judge Harold Haley ” and issued a warrant for her arrest.
( Interestingly, this particular commission was never put to use, as it was issued the same day the treaty was signed ending the U. S. involvement in the war — July 3, 1815.
The commission issued a " Blue Book " in July 1987 outlining modalities for district-level elections, which were held in late 1988 and early 1989, for newly created district assemblies.
on May 24, 1915, the Allies of World War I, Britain, France, and Russia, jointly issued a statement explicitly announcing, for the first time, the commission of a " crime against humanity " in response to the Armenian Genocide and warned of personal responsibility for members of the Ottoman Government and their agents.
The commission issued thirty-four articles known as the Articles d ' Issy, which condemned Mme Guyon's ideas very briefly and provided a short treatise on the orthodox Catholic idea of prayer.
In June a special commission for Fisher's trial was issued, and on Thursday, 17 June, he was arraigned in Westminster Hall before a court of seventeen, including Thomas Cromwell, Anne Boleyn's father, and ten justices.
As early as 1667, six years after the laying out of Talbot County, may be found in the Proceedings of the Provincial Council of Maryland, a commission issued by Charles Calvert, Esq., Captain General of all the forces within the Province of Maryland, to George Richard-son as captain of 0 troops of horse that shall march out of " Choptanck and St.
At the same time, a similar commission was issued to Hopkin Davis, as Captain of foot in Choptanck and St.
In February 2011, Lesley Curwen of the BBC World Service, interviewed David Carrington, the newly appointed president of the commission, about the risk of defaulting on bonds issued to finance “ what could be the most expensive sewage system in history .”
The growth of tourism in the early 19th century led to the formation of the Compagnie des Guides de Chamonix in 1821, to regulate access to the mountain slopes ( which were communally or co-operatively owned ), and this association held a monopoly of guiding from the town until it was broken by French government action in 1892 ; thereafter guides were required to hold a diploma issued by a commission dominated by civil servants and members of the French Alpine Club rather than local residents.
Crawfordsville was named in honor of Colonel William H. Crawford, who was the cabinet officer who had issued Whitlock's commission as Receiver of Public Lands.
In 1955, the commission issued a license to the Idaho Power Company to build a three-dam complex in the canyon.
The Council of Rome in 382 under the authority of Pope Damasus I issued an identical canon, and his decision to commission the Latin Vulgate edition of the Bible, c. 383, was instrumental in the fixation of the canon in the West.
A commission was given him as adjutant-general in the French army, which he hoped might protect him from the penalty of treason in the event of capture by the British ; though he himself claimed the authorship of a proclamation said to have been issued by the United Irishmen, enjoining that all Irishmen taken with arms in their hands in the British service should be instantly shot ; and he supported a project for landing La Legion Noire in England, who were to burn Bristol, England and commit other atrocities.

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