When Littlepage was introduced, if the General behaved as usual, the newcomer faced a staccato salvo of queries: origin??

When the Macdonald government fell due to the Pacific scandal in 1873, the Governor General, Lord Dufferin, called upon Mackenzie, who had been chosen as the leader of the Liberal Party a few months earlier, to form a new government.

When Data General introduced the Data General Nova, a company called Digidyne wanted to use its RDOS operating system on its own hardware clone.

When General Kolingba became president in 1981, he implemented an ethnicity-based recruitment policy for the administration.

When the Muslim General and Warlord Ma Lin was interviewed, Ma Lin was described as having " high admiration and unwavering loyalty to Chiang Kai-shek ".

When they arrive at Karnstein the General asks a nearby woodsman where he can find the tomb of Mircalla Karnstein.

When over 25, 000 of these royalists — led by General Danican — assaulted Paris, Paul François Jean Nicolas, vicomte de Barras was appointed to defend the capital ; outnumbered five to one and disorganized, the Republicans were desperate.

When the invitation arrived, Kaye was busy at work on The Inspector General ( which had a working title of Happy Times for a while ).

When he returned from that expedition 8 days later, Brigadier General Richard Montgomery had assumed command of the invasion due to Schuyler's illness.

When he failed in his attempts to meet General Yahya Khan, Masud too resigned from his position as Commander of Eastern Air Command, and took retirement from Air Force.

When the National Assembly was later created in June 1789 by the Third Estate, the clergy voted to join them, which perpetuated the destruction of the Estates General as a governing body.

When Mexico's Minister of War learned of General Huerta's comments, he stripped Huerta of his command, but Madero intervened and restored Huerta to command.

When the Attorney General determines that an emergency exists he may authorize the emergency employment of electronic surveillance before obtaining the necessary authorization from the FISA court, after which the Attorney General or his designee must notify a judge of the court not more than 72 hours after the Attorney General authorizes such surveillance.

When the frontier with Spain was re-opened, telephone and telex circuits cut by General Franco were re-established.

When US troops withdew from Grenada in December 1983 Nicholas Braithwaite of the National Democratic Congress was appointed Prime Minister of an interim administration by the Governor General Sir Paul Scoon until elections could be organised.

When, in 1770, Benjamin West proposed to paint " The Death of General Wolfe " in contemporary dress, he was firmly instructed to use classical costume by many people.

When interviewed about it, he stated, “ I certainly believe that people who are in pain should be helped and assisted in every way possible, that the drugs should be used to mitigate their pain but I believe the law of the United States of America which requires that drugs not be used except for legitimate health purposes .” " Attorney General Ashcroft Asks Supreme Court To Ban Assisted Suicide – California Healthline.

When it came to time for Ribbentrop to present the German declaration of war on 22 June 1941 to the Soviet Ambassador, General Vladimir Dekanozov, Paul Schmidt described the scene :" It is just before four on the morning of Sunday, 22 June 1941 in the office of the Foreign Minister.

When the Civil War ended, and the Indian Wars campaigns were in a lull, Carson was breveted a General and appointed commandant of Ft. Garland, Colorado, the heart of Ute country.

When the death sentence was passed, according to Moskalenko's later account, Beria pleaded on his knees for mercy before collapsing to the floor and wailing and crying energetically, but to no avail: the other six defendants were executed by firing squad on 23 December 1953, the same day as the trial, while Beria was fatally shot through the forehead by General Batitsky after the latter stuffed a rag into Beria's mouth to silence his bawling.

When Najibullah took the office of PDPA General Secretary, Karmal still had enough support in the party to disgrace Najibullah.

When Peter Sutherland was appointed the Republic of Ireland's European Commissioner, Labour demanded the choice of the next Attorney General.

When AA was ported to the English Electric KDF9 computer, the character set was changed to ISO and that compiler has been recovered from an old paper tape by the Edinburgh Computer History Project and is available online, as is a high-quality scan of the original Edinburgh version of the Atlas Autocode manual.

When asked why he didn't name the album " Electric Church " instead of " Electric Ladyland ", Hendrix said some ladies were " electric too ".

When the Gramophone Company merged with the Columbia Graphophone Company ( including Columbia's subsidiary label Parlophone ) in 1931, the new Anglo-American group was incorporated as Electric & Musical Industries Ltd. At this point RCA had a majority shareholding in the new company, giving RCA chair David Sarnoff a seat on the EMI board.

Among the poems in the collection are " Song of Myself ", " I Sing the Body Electric ", " Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking ", and in later editions, Whitman's elegy to the assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, " When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd ".

When more than one Electric Multiple Unit passes the neutral section, the first vehicle disconnects the power, then the last vehicle reconnects it.

When General Electric acquired RCA in 1986, the company sold its 50 % interest in RCA / Ariola International to its partner Bertelsmann and the company was renamed BMG Music for Bertelsmann Music Group.

When Seagram's drinks business was bought by France-based Pernod Ricard, its media holdings ( including Universal ) were sold to Vivendi which became Vivendi Universal which was later renamed back to Vivendi SA after selling most of the entertainment division ( which included Universal Pictures ) to General Electric.

When Owen D. Young of the General Electric Company arranged the purchase of American Marconi and turned it into the Radio Corporation of America, a radio patent monopoly, Sarnoff realized his dream and revived his proposal in a lengthy memo on the company's business and prospects.

When the album was released, the stage name The Electric Banana was used to hide the band's identity.

When war broke out a second lamp site, run by the Vale Royal Electric Lamp Company, was bought in nearby Tottenham-in case Edmonton was bombed.

When the war ended, Jules Thorn continued expansion through investing in new plants, partnerships and acquisitions, including the opening of an incandescent lamp operation in Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales in 1947 ; a technology transfer with Sylvania Electric Products Inc. to mass-produce tubular fluorescent lamps in Enfield, north London and taking over 51 % of Ekco-Ensign Electric ( Ekco ) in 1950, which added a further incandescent lamp factory – in Preston, Lancashire.

When The Move was still on tour, he founded, together with his band colleagues Jeff Lynne and Bev Bevan, the Electric Light Orchestra ( ELO ), which was later to gain major commercial success.

When he died on January 30, 1910 in New York City he had become an admired and well respected inventor, having sold a number of his devices to such giants as Westinghouse, General Electric and American Engineering-more importantly the world knew him as the Black Thomas Edison

When that company was combined in 1892 with the Thomson-Houston Electric Company to form General Electric, he continued to work in the legal department.

When it was introduced on the U. S. market, the Ericofon was available in 18 colours, but after transfer of production to North Electric, the number of colours was reduced to eight.

When Warner Bros. and Western Electric were trying to find the proper projection speed for the new sound pictures, Western Electric went to the Warner Theater in LA and noted the AVERAGE speed at which films were projected there.

When Rustless Iron and Steel Corporation was sold to the American Rolling Mill Company in 1937, Symington resigned and in 1938 accepted the presidency of Emerson Electric Company in St. Louis, Missouri.

When the war was over, Vickers, the owners of Electric & Ordnance Accessories Company Ltd, put the factory under the ownership of another subsidiary Wolseley Motors on September 30, 1919.

" When Gary opens the door, the sign on it says " Crown Electric Co .", which was the company Elvis worked for before getting his first recording contract.