In every war of the United States since the Civil War the South was more belligerent than the rest of the country.

Thus, to cite but one example, the Pax Britannica of the nineteenth century, whether with the British navy ruling the seas or with the City of London ruling world finance, was strictly national in motivation, however much other nations ( e.g., the United States ) may have incidentally benefited.

National responsibility for individual welfare is a concept not limited to the United States or even to the Western nations.

( Since the time-span of the nation-state coincides roughly with the separate existence of the United States as an independent entity, it is perhaps natural for Americans to think of the nation as representative of the highest form of order, something permanent and unchanging.

In recent weeks, as a result of a sweeping defense policy reappraisal by the Kennedy Administration, basic United States strategy has been modified -- and large new sums allocated -- to meet the accidental-war danger and to reduce it as quickly as possible.

Its radar screens would register Soviet missiles shortly after they are launched against the United States.

In 1938, at the insistence of Arturo Toscanini, Steinberg left Germany for the United States, by way of Switzerland.

After he had spent the first three years in New York as associate conductor, at Toscanini's invitation, of the NBC Orchestra, he made numerous guest appearances throughout the United States and Latin America.

`` Then I return to the United States for engagements at the Hollywood Bowl and in Philadelphia '', he added.

The difference came down to this: The Southern States insisted that the United States was, in last analysis, what its name implied -- a Union of States.

`` we the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common Defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America ''.

The 140,414 Americans who gave `` the last full measure of devotion '' to prevent disunion, preserved individual freedom in the United States from the dangers of anarchy, inherent in confederations, which throughout history have proved fatal in the end to all associations composed primarily of sovereign states, and to the liberties of their people.

There one finds concentrated in a comparatively small area the chief universities, colleges, and preparatory schools of the United States.

The rise of the giant corporations in Western Europe and the United States dates from the period 1880-1900.

He says: `` beside the Protestant philosophy of Progress, as expressed in radical or conservative millenarianism, should be placed the doctrine of the democratic faith which affirmed it to be the duty of the destiny of the United States to assist in the creation of a better world by keeping lighted the beacon of democracy ''.

During the next five years liberal leaders in the United States sank in the cumulative confusion attendant upon and manifested in a negative policy of Containment -- and the bitterest irony -- enforced and enforceable only by threat of a weapon that we felt the greatest distaste for but could not abandon: the atom bomb.

And here again we hear the same refrain mentioned above: `` the paramount goal of the United States set long ago was to guard the rights of the individual, ensure his development, enlarge his opportunity ''.

`` I arrived in the United States with the idea of establishing myself there more or less permanently and finding inspiration for new compositions ''.

This is the good kind of sophistication, and with all our problems and crises this kind of sophistication has flowered in the United States during recent years.

but Wright stayed in the United States.

In a letter dated August 1, 1969, and addressed to the President of the Security Council, the Permanent Representative of Cambodia alleged to the United Nations Security Council that aircraft from the United States and South Vietnam scattered ‘ poisonous yellow powder ’ along its frontiers with South Vietnam in May and June.

In 2003, U. S. Representative John Conyers paid tribute to Bo Diddley in the United States House of Representatives describing him as " one of the true pioneers of rock and roll, who has influenced generations ".

There exists a Permanent Representative of Croatia to the United Nations.

* Joseph F. Smith ( Pennsylvania politician ) ( 1920 – 1999 ), United States Representative from Pennsylvania

He obtained an appointment in 1850 to the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, from Representative Thomas Hamlet Averett, the man who had defeated his father in the 1848 election.

In 1961, U Thant, then Burma's Permanent Representative to the United Nations and former Secretary to the Prime Minister, was elected Secretary-General of the United Nations ; he was the first non-Westerner to head any international organization and would serve as UN Secretary-General for ten years.

* 19-Sérgio Vieira de Mello, United Nations Special Representative to Iraq.

Saint Lucia's Permanent Representative ( or ambassador ) to the United Nations is Anthony Severin.

* March 1981-Singapore's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Tommy Koh, assumed the Presidency of the Third UN Conference on the Law of the Sea.

The Constitution provides three requirements for Representatives: A Representative must be at least 25 years old, must be an inhabitant of the state in which he or she is elected, and must have been a citizen of the United States for the previous seven years.

Representative John Quincy Adams had made a proposal in 1839, but there were no new proposals until December 14, 1863, when a bill to support an amendment to abolish slavery throughout the entire United States was introduced by Representative James Mitchell Ashley ( Republican, Ohio ).

Since the 1996 reorganization, the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development ( USAID ), while leading an independent agency, has also reported to the Secretary of State, as does the United States Ambassador to the United Nations ( also known as the Permanent Representative ).

* John Coburn ( Indiana ), United States Representative from Indiana

* James Wilson ( Indiana ), United States Representative

Allen served as United States Representative from Ohio from 1832 to 1834, losing his bid for re-election.

Membership with the World Bank, under the aegis of Ranjit Nayak, the World Bank Representative in Kosovo ( since February 2007 ), has resulted in Kosovo being treated by the World Bank as its 186th member country, and no longer under the United Nations Security Council Resolution No. 1244.

Very few EOP ( Executive Office of the President ) officials are required to be confirmed by the Senate, although there are a handful of exceptions to this rule ( e. g., the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, the Chair and members of the Council of Economic Advisers, and the United States Trade Representative ).

* United States Trade Representative: Ron Kirk

** Deputy United States Trade Representative ( Washington Office ): Ambassador Demetrios Marantis

** Deputy United States Trade Representative ( Geneva Office ): Ambassador Michael Punke

** Evelyn Underhill ( Church of England and the Episcopal Church of the United States )

Chelmsford became home to the United Kingdom's first electrical engineering works established by Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton.

Two of his daughters are no longer alive: Victoria Tolbert Yancy died in 1971, and Evelyn Tolbert Richardson ( the wife of a government aviator ) died in Westchester County, New York, United States, in 1993.

Ex-officio members of the WJC Executive are the heads of the five regional affiliates, currently Vadim Shulman of Ukraine ( Euro-Asian Jewish Congress ), Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor of Russia ( European Jewish Congress ), Evelyn Sommer of the United States ( WJC North America ), Jack Terpins of Brazil ( Latin American Jewish Congress ), and Shai Hermesh of Israel ( WJC Israel ).

In a case involving Richard McLaren and his wife Evelyn as plaintiffs, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia ruled, on April 30, 1998: " Despite plaintiffs ' argument ..... n 1845, Texas became the 28th state of the United States of America.

Evelyn Maurine Norton Lincoln ( June 25, 1909 – May 11, 1995 ) was the personal secretary to John F. Kennedy from his election to the United States Senate in 1953 until his 1963 assassination in Dallas.

Born as Elsie Evelyn Lay in Bloomsbury, London, United Kingdom and known professionally as Evelyn Laye, her parents were both actors and her father a theatre manager, she made her first stage appearance in August 1915 at the Theatre Royal, Brighton as Nang-Ping in Mr. Wu, and her first London appearance at the East Ham Palace on 24 April 1916, aged 14, in the revue Honi Soit, in which she subsequently toured.

Elevations bordering the Beardmore Glacier, at the western extremity of these mountains, were observed by the British expeditions led by Ernest Shackleton ( 1907-09 ) and Robert Falcon Scott ( 1910-13 ), but the mountains as a whole were mapped by several American expeditions led by Richard Evelyn Byrd ( 1930s and 1940s ), and United States Antarctic Program ( USARP ) and New Zealand Antarctic Research Program ( NZARP ) expeditions from the 1950s through the 1970s.

Millard Evelyn Tydings ( April 6, 1890February 9, 1961 ) was an attorney, author, soldier, state legislator, and served as a Democratic Representative and Senator in the United States Congress from Maryland.

* The United States Steel Hour TV series-One episode: " Edward My Son " ( 1955 ), Evelyn Holt

He was born to missionary parents ( Jesse and Evelyn " Granny " Brand ) and grew up in the Kolli Hills of Tamil Nadu, India, until he was sent to the United Kingdom in 1923 for education.

* Evelyn Sharp – In 1938, Evelyn Sharp was the youngest person in the United States to receive a commercial pilots license.

He married on September 11, 1873 at Washington, D. C., Evelyn Wotherspoon, born June 13, 1853 at Washington, D. C., and died on November 24, 1937 at Washington, D. C. Their son, Richard Wainwright, Jr., Commander, United States Navy, earned the Medal of Honor for his service at Vera Cruz, Mexico, and is also buried in the cemetery at the United States Naval Academy.

1998 First Annual Thomas-Berry Environmental Award and Lectureship sponsored by the Center for Reflection on the Second Law ( CRSL ) and the Humane Society of the United States, presented by Dr Mary Evelyn Tucker