The committee's final report, on December 30, 1907, stated, in part, that " the first scheme for playing baseball, according to the best evidence obtainable to date, was devised by Abner Doubleday at Cooperstown, New York, in 1839.

The reasons for the two of them winning the prize are described in the Nobel committee's press release.

" The committee's recommendation for establishing a permanent independent research laboratory on the East Coast to " prosecute oceanography in all its branches " led to the founding in 1930 of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

When Sirica ordered Nixon to comply with the committee's and Cox's demands, the President offered Cox a compromise: instead of producing the tapes, he would allow the Senator John Stennis ( a Democrat from Mississippi ) to listen to the tapes, with the help of a transcript prepared for him by the White House, and Stennis would then prepare summaries of the tapes ' contents.

Though the committee's final report did not blame comics for crime, it recommended that the comics industry tone down its content voluntarily ; possibly taking this as a veiled threat of potential censorship, publishers developed the Comics Code Authority to censor their own content.

The committee's first meeting took place on 7 October, and on 11 October they delegated the arrangements for the individual branches of sports to the relevant governing bodies in Sweden.

He chaired the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation during the 109th Congress, becoming the committee's ranking member after the Democrats regained control of the Senate for the 110th Congress.

In the executive order, Musgrove also called for continuing the use of the flag until the Legislature had received and reviewed the committee's report.

The committee's hearings, which were televised live just as many Americans were buying televisions, made Kefauver nationally famous and introduced many Americans to the concept of a criminal organization known as the Mafia for the first time ever.

On 5 July 2005, the committee's report passed to a plenary session of Parliament for debate by all MEPs.

After serving as the committee's ranking Democrat for 12 years, Dingell regained the chairmanship in 2007.

By the mid-1960s, Powell was increasingly being criticized for mismanaging his committee's budget, taking trips abroad at public expense, and missing sittings of his committee.

In 2007, Waxman changed the committee's name from the Government Reform Committee to the " Oversight and Government Reform Committee ," or the " Oversight Committee " for short.

However, when the full committee's chairman, Bill Archer of Texas, retired after the 2000 elections, Crane made a bid for the highly coveted post of Ways and Means chairman.

In her March 2000 letter to the International Herald Tribune, Dr. Bernadine Healy, then president of the American Red Cross, wrote: " The international committee's feared proliferation of symbols is a pitiful fig leaf, used for decades as the reason for excluding the Magen David Adom — the Shield ( or Star ) of David.

In the 1963 proposal the metro was planned as a light rail system, running in tunnels a maximum of 14 metres below the surface ( compared to 30 metres in the finalized system ), and with stations placed at shorter intervals ( for instance, the committee's presentation shows 10 stations between Sörnäinen and Ruoholahti, compared to the six in the realized system ).

Following two more years of planning, the Valtanen-led committee's proposal for an initial metro line from Kamppi to Puotila in the east of the city was approved after hours of debate in the city council on the early morning hours of 8 May 1969.

The committee's purpose is to oversee the rules for employer-paid health plans, among other issues, and although it is rare for a freshman legislator to attain a committee leadership post, Boehner cited Fletcher's experience in the medical field and work on reforming the Kentucky health care system as reasons for the appointment.

Catherine Drinker Bowen, in Miracle at Philadelphia, called Morris the committee's " amanuensis ," meaning that it was his pen that was responsible for most of the draft, as well as its final polished form.

The planning committee recommended continued investment in the IRP and recommended specific administrative changes ; many of these were implemented upon release of the committee's final report ; other changes — for example, the establishment of a major new program on Mood and Anxiety Disorders — have been introduced in the years since.

Their reports and the committee's written views and concerns are available on the committee's website.

The committee's formal responsibilities are to examine the expenditure, administration and policies of the security and intelligence agencies as laid down in statute ; the Secret Intelligence Service, the Security Service and Government Communications Headquarters.

Such cities do not have authority that supersedes and are not exempt from the state fire safety committee's established fire code in state or county owned buildings and public schools wherever located throughout the state.

The committee's jurisdiction has been changed several times since it was first created, through additional powers or by changing the manner in which committee members are appointed.

The Chairman and Ranking Member of full committees are permitted to serve as ex-officios on any of their committee's subcommittees.

However, unlike their republican counterparts, democratic chairmen and ranking members are not limited to six-year terms nor are chairmen of full committees prohibited from serving as chairmen of their own committee's subcommittees.

This means that recommendations are enforced through national ( or EU-wide ) laws and regulations, rather than as a result of the committee's recommendations-thus some time may pass between recommendations and implementation as law at the national level.

The committee's powers are not as extensive as the powers of the average company board of directors.

Two major Catholic apologists whom they often call Neo-Catholic, Scott Hahn and Jimmy Akin, are converts from Protestantism, and they have described EWTN, which they often call Neo-Catholic, as having a theological committee where " he majority of the committee's members at the time, none of them priests, consisted of recently converted Protestants, two of whom were former Protestant ministers ” and also as having a staff of 40 % Protestants.

There are no term-limits and all committee members have the right to vote on the committee's decisions.

" " The calls by the Opposition Leader to toss the bill out, before the sectoral committee's report on public submissions are tabled in the House, is uncalled for and premature, to say the least ," Vosanibola declared.

They are then forwarded upon that committee's approval to the UEFA Executive Committee for ratification.

Each individual college committee's President and two Sports Secretaries are automatically elected to the SAAUCC committee.

The AID committee's chairman in charge of the redecoration, Mrs. Henry Francis Lenygon, was in town yesterday to consult with White House staff members on the project.

By November the Deputy General Minister and President, William Howland, suggested that the committee's staff consultant and chairperson agree on a specific proposal and bring it back to the committee: that meant Robert L. Friedly of the Office of Interpretation and Ronald E. Osborn.

* Stephen King's novel Carrie includes many excerpts from a fictional committee's findings on the events in the novel, as well as excerpts from a book on the events in the novel titled The Shadow Exploded.

In 1669 Pepys had to prepare detailed answers to the committee's eight ' Observations ' on the Navy Board's conduct, and in 1670 he was forced to defend his own role.

The committee's report stated that the clause defining the northern boundary depended on " a fact not yet ascertained " ( the location of the southern extreme of Lake Michigan ), and the members " thought it unnecessary to take it provision, at the time, into consideration.

The committee's 447 page report, made public on November 29, 1977, reported on plans by the National Intelligence Service ( South Korea ) ( KCIA ) to manipulate American institutions to the advantage of South Korean government policies, overtly and covertly.

Eighty-one pages ( pages 311 to 392 ) of the report presented the committee's findings on Sun Myung Moon, the Unification Church, and what the committee termed " the Moon Organization.

If the need arises, the members of either house can force a committee to take action on a bill, or they can ignore the committee's recommendations.

This was revealed by a declassified interview with then-US National Security Council minutekeeper Robert Johnson released in August 2000 from Senate intelligence committee's inquiry on covert action.

Barton had at first specified " on the Summit of it a Palm Tree, proper ", with the explanation that " The Palm Tree, when burnt down to the very Root, naturally rises fairer than ever ", but later crossed it out and replaced it with the Eye of Providence, taken from the first committee's design.

Countering Terrorist Finance: The Central Bank of Sudan and its financial intelligence unit circulated to financial institutions a list of individuals and entities that have been included on the UN 1267 al-Qa ’ ida and Taliban sanctions committee's Consolidated List.

Johnson chaired a House committee to report on the subject, and delivered the committee's report on January 17, 1832.

Each council member is appointed by the Mayor to one of six standing committee's during the Annual Reorganization Meeting held on January 1 of each year.

On the basis of his studies of international heads of state, Duffy was one of six people ( including Sir Ellis Clarke, the former Governor-General and President of Trinidad and Tobago ) commissioned in 1993 by Australia's Republic Advisory Committee to prepare reports on international republican experiences — to appear as an appendix to the committee's main report.

Lott's strong showing in the polls landed him on the powerful House Judiciary Committee as a freshman, where he voted against all three articles of impeachment drawn up against Nixon during the committee's debate.

" The committee's questioning of their next witness, EC publisher William Gaines, focused on violent scenes of the type Wertham had decried.

The main document, dated November 18, 1952, was supposedly prepared by Rear Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter, the first CIA director, to brief incoming president Dwight Eisenhower on the committee's progress.