the Honorable Robert Wagner, Sr., at that time a justice of the New York Supreme Court, was on the reception committee.

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.

Francesca and Grazie were habitual committee chairmen and they usually managed to be elected co-chairmen, equal bosses, of whatever PTA or civic project was being launched.

A steering committee of students was organized on the first day whose duty it was to be alert and constantly evaluate and re-evaluate the direction and pace the class was taking.

For example, the steering committee might announce that the group felt a topic under study should not be dropped for an additional week as there was still too much of it untouched.

This trade was subject to a tariff of 7.5 per cent after February 1835, but much was smuggled into Assiniboia with the result that the duty was reduced by 1841 to 4 per cent on the initiative of the London committee.

The prevailing view in the industry was summed up in 1912 by a group of auto makers who told a Senate committee: `` The exceedingly unsatisfactory and uselessly expensive conditions, including delays surrounding legal disputes, particularly in patent litigation, are items of industrial burden which must be written large in figures of many millions of dollars of industrial waste ''.

With the other members of the patents committee -- Wilfred C. Leland, Howard E. Coffin, Windsor T. White, and W. H. Vandervoort -- Hanch drafted a cross-licensing agreement whose essential feature of royalty-free licensing was his own contribution.

He told the committee the measure would merely provide means of enforcing the escheat law which has been on the books `` since Texas was a republic ''.

State and federal legislation against racial discrimination in employment was called for yesterday in a report of a `` blue ribbon '' citizens committee on the aid to dependent children program.

A special presentation was made to Mrs. Geraldine Thompson of Red Bank, who is stepping down after 35 years on the committee.

Judge John B. Molinari was named chairman of the executive committee.

The American Standard Code for Information Interchange ( ASCII ) was developed under the auspices of a committee of the American Standards Association, called the X3 committee, by its X3. 2 ( later X3L2 ) subcommittee, and later by that subcommittee's X3. 2. 4 working group.

The committee decided it was important to support upper case 64-character alphabets, and chose to pattern ASCII so it could be reduced easily to a usable 64-character set of graphic codes.

The @ symbol was not used in continental Europe and the committee expected it would be replaced by an accented À in the French variation, so the @ was placed in position 40 < sub > hex </ sub > next to the letter A.

The X3 committee made other changes, including other new characters ( the brace and vertical line characters ), renaming some control characters ( SOM became start of header ( SOH )) and moving or removing others ( RU was removed ).

However, the committee of this French Missionary Society was not ready to accept his offer, considering his Lutheran theology to be " incorrect ".

In 1952, he was brought before a United States Senate investigative committee.

During this term Johnson also made a concerted effort to increase his sphere of interactions ; his higher profile was exemplified by a biographical sketch published in the New York Times in May 1849, describing him as an excellent committee worker and investigator.

Under Robespierre the committee initiated the Reign of Terror, during which up to 40, 000 people were executed in Paris, mainly nobles, and those convicted by the Revolutionary Tribunal, often on the flimsiest of evidence.

His wife Rose, sister of Aaron Director, with whom he initiated the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, served on the international selection committee.

Legislation can be initiated by the executive branch, the legislative branch ( either a committee of the National Assembly or three members of the latter ), the judicial branch, the citizen branch ( ombudsman, public prosecutor, and controller general ) or a public petition signed by no fewer than 0. 1 % of registered voters.

A Post Office inquiry into the problem had been set up in 1837 and a House of Commons committee was initiated in 1843.

To generate support for the scheme, the provisional committee initiated a public campaign led by Joseph Lawrence, who had worked for the Hull and Barnsley Railway.

The Save Kogawa House committee initiated a campaign to save Kogawa's childhood home in the Marpole neighborhood of Vancouver from demolition.

In 1984 Leland established the congressional select committee on Hunger and initiated a number of programs designed to assuage the famine crises that plagued Ethiopia and Sudan through much of the 1980s.

Bartlett initiated the Senate Inquiry into Australia's refugee determination system which produced the " Sanctuary Under Review " report in 2000, and has participated in numerous other committee inquiries into immigration matters.

The project was born in 1980, when a government committee suggested that negotiations be initiated with various publishers.

The committee was initiated by then President of the Civic Association Danny Mundy, who came up with the idea from reading the “ Glimpse of the Past ” column in the town newsletter, Channel News.

The meeting with potential funders was initiated by local North Belfast MLA Fred Cobain after a chance meeting with MRA committee member Barbara McPhee.

In May 2007 Kara-Murza initiated the nomination of Vladimir Bukovsky, a writer and prominent Soviet-era dissident, as a candidate in the 2008 Russian presidential election and served as the national coordinator of Bukovsky's presidential campaign committee, which included Yuri Ryzhov, Viktor Shenderovich, Andrei Piontkovsky, Alexander Podrabinek, and others.

In 2006, two U. S. based hedge funds created a committee for " fair treatment of minority shareholders " which initiated litigation charging that the majority shareholders and officers have violated their fiduciary obligations.

In June 2006, the CAS committee initiated the first joint-scholarship programme for academic performance.

On January 28, 1997, the Virginia Senate voted to designate " Carry Me Back to Old Virginia " as state song emeritus and a study committee initiated a contest for writing a new state song.

* Led a committee which initiated and planned the Bicentennial National Trail.

Investigation missions can be initiated either by a state referring a matter to the Committee of Experts, or the committee can undertake its own investigations, although the Committee may only visit a State Party if invited to do so by the government.

Finally, in 1968, by a unanimous vote of the law committee, the final approach was initiated, when it was decided that the Joint Bet Din of the Conservative Movement could annul marriages as a last resort, based on the Talmudic principle of hafka ' at kiddushin.

With Canada at war for the first time since its version of the Victoria Cross was created, preparations for a physical cast of the medal were initiated in 2006, when a committee called the Victoria Cross Production Planning Group was formed under the leadership of the Chancellery of Honours at Rideau Hall.

The Space Sciences Laboratory ( SSL ) at Berkeley, California was initiated in 1958 by a committee of faculty members who recognized that emerging rocket and satellite technology opened up new investigative realms for the physical, biological, and engineering sciences.

The committee initiated an action plan in late 1947 to commission a permanent defence academy and began the search for a site to build the academy.

The current committee was formed as a communications sub-group of a Doncaster MBC initiated local service delivery team.