** George Crumb ( composer ) & Thomas Conlin for Crumb: Star-Child

** George Crumb ( composer ) & Thomas Conlin for Crumb: Star-Child

She became a national figure in 1991 when she alleged that U. S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas had made harassing sexual statements when he was her supervisor at the U. S. Department of Education and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

In 1981, she became an attorney-adviser to Clarence Thomas who was then the Assistant Secretary of the U. S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights.

When Thomas became Chairman of the U. S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ( EEOC ) in 1982, Hill went along to serve as his assistant, leaving the job in 1983.

Thomas was nominated to the U. S. Supreme Court by then-President George H. W. Bush, a position that required Senate hearings and confirmation.

After extensive debate, the U. S. Senate confirmed Thomas to the Supreme Court by a vote of 52 – 48 ; the narrowest margin since the 19th century.

* Inge, M. Thomas, " Li ' l Abner, Snuffy and Friends " from Comics and the U. S. South, pp. 3 – 27 ( 2012 ) Univ.

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* 1807 – The Embargo Act, forbidding trade with all foreign countries, is passed by the U. S. Congress, at the urging of President Thomas Jefferson.

Thomas was inducted into the Junior Achievement U. S. Business Hall of Fame in 1999.

Many Americans attribute the dish to France and offer as evidence a notation by U. S. President Thomas Jefferson.

* Thomas M. Davis, former U. S. Congressman from Virginia

Thomas Newkirk and Melissa Robertson of the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ) summarize the development of U. S. insider trading laws.

* 1915 – Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U. S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.

His death came 55 years after the U. S. Declaration of Independence was proclaimed and 5 years after the death of two other Founding Fathers who became Presidents: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.

*' U. S. By the Numbers: What's Left, Right & Wrong with America, ( ISBN 9781892123145, Capital Books, Incorporated, 2000 ) with Raymond J. Keating, and Thomas N. Edmonds

During his tenure there, Ashcroft shared an office with future U. S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.

( In 2001, Thomas administered Ashcroft's oath of office as U. S. Attorney General.

Grammer was born in Saint Thomas, U. S. Virgin Islands, the son of Sally ( née Cranmer ), a singer, and Frank Allen Grammer, Jr., a musician and owner of a coffee shop and a bar & grill called Greer's Place.

In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson commissioned the Corps of Discovery, and named U. S. Army Captain Meriwether Lewis its leader, who selected William Clark as his partner.

Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U. S. A. Thomas Y. Crowell Company.

The U. S. was also the scene for Dear Wendy ( 2005 ), a feature film directed by von Trier's " Dogme-brother " Thomas Vinterberg from a script by von Trier.

Congress cut off funding for the Braille magazine translation in 1985, but U. S. District Court Judge Thomas Hogan reversed the decision on First Amendment grounds.

In 1904, The U. S. Patent Office reversed its decision, awarding Marconi a patent for the invention of radio, possibly influenced by Marconi's financial backers in the States, who included Thomas Edison and Andrew Carnegie.

`` I want to tell you something Thomas DeMontez Lord.

Time's editor, Thomas Griffith, in his book, The Waist-High Culture, wrote: `` most of what was different about it ( the Deep South ) I found myself unsympathetic to.

But apart from racial problems, the old unreconstructed South -- to use the moderate words favored by Mr. Thomas Griffith -- finds itself unsympathetic to most of what is different about the civilization of the North.

In emergencies the SAC commander, Gen. Thomas Power, or his deputies and their staff would occupy a balcony that stretches across the length of the room above Wisman and his staff.

Seven Founders -- George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay -- determined the destinies of the new nation.

His political opponent and lifetime friend, Thomas Jefferson, achieved immortality through his authorship of the Declaration of Independence, but equally notable were the legal and constitutional reforms he instituted in his native Virginia, his role as father of our territorial system, and his acquisition of the Louisiana Territory during his first term as President.

If Wilhelm Reich is the Moses who has led them out of the Egypt of sexual slavery, Dylan Thomas is the poet who offers them the Dionysian dialectic of justification for their indulgence in liquor, marijuana, sex, and jazz.

And one finds it again in Thomas Nelson Page ) to the effect that the Mayflower on its second voyage brought a cargo of Negro slaves.

They were not diplomats or jazz musicians, or even organizers of reading-rooms and photo-montage displays, but rugged capitalist entrepreneurs like Henry Ford, Hugh Cooper, Thomas Campbell, the International Harvester Co., and David W. Griffith.

Thomas De Torquemada, Inquisitor-General of the Spanish Inquisition, put many persons to death.

The Leopard's Spots came from the pen of Thomas Dixon in 1902, and in this he announced an `` unchangeable '' law.

Thomas Mann wrote The Holy Sinner in 1951.

The tradition reached its apex, perhaps, in the works of Thomas Nelson Page toward the end of the century, and reappeared undiminished as late as 1934 in the best-selling novel So Red The Rose, by Stark Young.

One of the early humorists already mentioned, Thomas Bangs Thorpe, can be used to illustrate another point where Faulkner touches authentic Southern materials and also earlier literary treatment of those materials.

A contrast of the scripture reading of, let us say, St. Augustine, John Bunyan, and Thomas Jefferson, all three of whom found in such study a real source of enlightenment, can tell us a great deal about these three men and the age that each represented and helped bring to conscious expression.

A popular belief grew up after the war that the only time during the Civil War that Thomas ever put his horse to a gallop was when he went to hurry up Stanley for this assault.

Sherman was responsible for the story when he said in his memoirs that this was the only time he could recall seeing Thomas ride so fast.

While the final combat of the campaign was being worked out at Jonesborough, Thomas, on Sherman's instructions, ordered Slocum, now commanding the Twentieth Corps, to make an effort to occupy Atlanta if he could do so without exposing his bridgehead to a counterattack.

Before making the news public Sherman sent an officer with the note to Thomas.

In a short time the officer returned and Thomas followed on his heels.

The cautious Thomas re-examined the note and then, making up his mind that it was genuine, snapped his fingers, whistled and almost danced in his exuberance.

By both standards Thomas had the right to be proud.

Thomas thanked his men for their tenacity of purpose, unmurmuring endurance, cheerful obedience, brilliant heroism and high qualities in battle.

This system was dependent upon identical maps and Thomas supplied them from a mobile lithograph press.

Every recorded request by Thomas for a delay in a flank movement or an advance was to gain time to take care of his horses.