When the United States entered the First World War Baker made certain that the Draft Act of 1917 prohibited the sale of liquor to men in uniform and that it provided for broad zones around the camps in which prostitution was outlawed.

When the stock exchange opened this morning, many dealers were quick to purchase shares in Douglas, Lockheed and United Aircraft and prices rose substantially.

When this second dilemma first became obvious -- during the mid to late '50's -- the United States appeared to have three choices.

When in 1816 an act of Congress forced the foreign firm out of the United States, its British-born employees, now become American citizens -- Joseph Rolette, Joseph Renville and Alexis Bailly -- continued in the fur business.

When the CCITT ( now ITU-T ) was standardizing ATM, parties from the United States wanted a 64-byte payload because this was felt to be a good compromise in larger payloads optimized for data transmission and shorter payloads optimized for real-time applications like voice ; parties from Europe wanted 32-byte payloads because the small size ( and therefore short transmission times ) simplify voice applications with respect to echo cancellation.

When the office of Lord High Admiral was in commission, as it was for most of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries until it reverted to the Crown, it was exercised by a Board of Admiralty, officially known as the Commissioners for Exercising the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, & c. ( alternatively of England, Great Britain or the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland depending on the period ).

When the series ended in the United Kingdom, a further seven volumes were issued exclusively in Australia, meaning that over 28 volumes, all 200 episodes were released on VHS.

When the team first emerged in the nineteenth century it represented one nation-state, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

When twenty-one was introduced in the United States, gambling houses offered bonus payouts to stimulate players ' interest.

When the United States joined the war, Churchill and Roosevelt agreed to pool resources.

When the United States renounced its offensive biological warfare program in 1969 and 1970, the vast majority of its biological arsenal was composed of these plant diseases.

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When asked about the fundraiser Bo Diddley stated, " This is the United States of America.

When he briefly returned to the United States in 1972, the Lincoln Center Film Society honoured him with a gala and awarded him a lifetime achievement award, which has since been awarded annually to filmmakers as The Chaplin Award.

When it started in 1970, the Universal Press Syndicate gave cartoonists a 50-percent share on the ownership of their works, while the Creators Syndicate ( founded in 1987 ) granted artists full rights to the strips, something that Universal Press did in 1990. followed by King Features in 1995, while before 1999 both the Tribune and United Feature services began granting rights to creators over their works ; however the latter three syndicates only applied this to new strips, or to ones popular enough.

When used as a medication in the U. S., coal tar preparations are considered an OTC ( over-the-counter drug ) pharmaceutical and are subject to regulation by the United States Food and Drug Administration.

When asked if the WikiLeaks of 2010 would damage American relations with other countries, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates noted that " governments deal with the United States because it's in their interest, not because they like us, not because they trust us, and not because they believe we can keep secrets.

When the United States entered World War I, Eastman organized with Roger Baldwin and Norman Thomas the National Civil Liberties Bureau to protect conscientious objectors, or in her words: " To maintain something over here that will be worth coming back to when the weary war is over.

When he moved to the United States, Desi Arnaz turned to show business to support himself.

When Ball sold her share of Desilu to what became Paramount Television, Arnaz went on to form his own production company from the ashes of his share of Desilu, and with the newly formed Desi Arnaz Productions, he made The Mothers-In-Law ( at Desilu ) for United Artists Television and NBC, this ran for two seasons from 1967-68.

When the United States began to expand her navy in the 1930s, she would surpass Britain as the world's premier naval power.

When he returned to the United States, jobs were in short supply ; Kaye struggled for bookings.

When the United States resumed EVAs on April 7, 1983, astronauts started using an Extravehicular Mobility Unit ( EMU ) for self-contained life support independent of the spacecraft.

When the United States ( US ) government was formed in 1789, Boudinot was elected from New Jersey to the US House of Representatives.

When Libya declared its independence on 24 December 1951 it was the first country to achieve independence through the United Nations and the third former European colony in Africa to gain independence after Egypt ( 1922 ) and Abyssinia ( 1941 ).

When France rejected Neurath's note, Germany stormed out of the League of Nations and the World Disarmament Conference, and all but announced its intention to unilaterally violate Part V. Consequently, there were several calls in France that autumn for a preventive war to put an end to the Nazi regime while Germany was still more-or-less disarmed.

When the Court met for its initial session, opened on 30 January 1922 to allow for the establishment of procedure and the appointment of Court officials, the Secretary-General of the League of Nations passed an emergency resolution through the Assembly which designated an official of the League and his staff as the Registrar and Registry respectively, with the first Registrar being Åke Hammarskjöld.

When the atrocities committed by Nazi Germany became apparent after the Second World War, the consensus within the world community was that the United Nations Charter did not sufficiently define the rights it referenced.

When the British Labour Party took power in 1924 and 1929, the New Zealand government felt threatened by Labour's foreign policy because of its reliance upon the League of Nations.

When Israel withdrew from South Lebanon in May 2000, the main obstacle holding up the deployment of United Nations peacekeepers along the border was the allocation of this disputed site.

When in 1960 it became obvious that allied support for this policy, particularly from the United States, was waning, Luns tried to find an intermediate solution by transferring the administration of the territory to the United Nations, yet this attempt to keep West New Guinea out of Indonesian hands failed as well.

When Sassou Nguesso attended the United Nations General Assembly meeting in September 2006, almost £ 14, 000 of room service at the Waldorf Astoria was added to his bill during another five-night stay.

When a state fails to do so, " the international community, through the United Nations, also has responsibility ".

When the Suez War broke out, the United Kingdom, France, and Israel were mainly successful in attaining their immediate military objectives, but pressure from the US and the USSR at the United Nations and elsewhere forced them to withdraw.

When the 1980s were declared the " International Decade of Water " by the United Nations, the assumption was made that groundwater is inherently safer than water from rivers, ponds, and canals.

When the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine delivered its recommendations for the partition of Palestine, the High Commissioner of Palestine, Alan Cunningham sent emissaries to Cairo to sound out the Mufti, though transferring any power of state to him was unthinkable.

When authority to manage the revenue from Iraq's oil on behalf of the Iraqi people through United Nations resolution, that authority was transferred under certain conditions.

When Trygve Lie resigned from his post as UN Secretary-General in 1953, the United Nations Security Council recommended Hammarskjöld for the post.

When Paul VI visited the United States in October 1965, he indirectly rebuked Spellman's hawkish stance by pleading for peace before the United Nations.

* When the Democratic Kampuchea regime of Pol Pot was militarily displaced by the Vietnamese-backed People's Republic of Cambodia, the United Nations seat continued to be held by Democratic Kampuchea for many years.

When her contract was terminated by Wellesley because of her pacifist activities, she became an editor of The Nation, a well-known liberal news magazine, acted as secretary of the WILPF ( a second term in 1934 without salary for a year and a half ), and did much work for the League of Nations.

When General Douglas MacArthur was relieved of command by President Harry Truman in April, Ridgway was promoted to full general, assuming command of all United Nations forces in Korea.

When no agreement could be reached, Bevin threatened to hand the problem over to the United Nations.

When PM, in 1975, Thorn sat as President of the United Nations General Assembly.

When he was advocating for Canada's election to the United Nations Security Council, he said that while " the special nature of relationship to the United Kingdom and the United States complicates our responsibilities ", Canada was not a " satellite " of either but would " continue to make our decisions objectively, in the light of our obligations to our own people and their interest in the welfare of the international community.

When the United Nations intervened in Kuwait in 1990, the 24th Infantry Division, which was part of the Rapid Deployment Force, was one of the first units deployed to Southwest Asia.

When the Navy vacated the campus, the site was briefly occupied by the nascent United Nations, which held its first Security Council sessions at the Bronx Campus in 1946, giving the school an international profile.

When these systematic acts were made public by the international media the European Union, United Nations, the international press and various human rights movements condemned their practice.