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While serving as a Congressman, Curtis originated and helped pass the Curtis Act of 1898, with provisions that included bringing the Five Civilized Tribes of Oklahoma under land allotment and restructuring provisions.
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While the Aviation Safety Network, part of FlightSafety. org, lists only one crash of a Curtis C-46 as originating from McClellan AFB on 18 February 1944, another crash involving an RC-121 also at takeoff, is documented on a military reunion site.
While his predecessor, Mike Logan, was unpredictable and sometimes crossed into legal and ethical gray areas, the conservative, devoutly Catholic Curtis does his job by the book, and views it in black and white terms: He believes that if someone breaks the law, they deserve to go to jail, regardless of circumstances.
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While coming back from delivering a prisoner in a nearby town, US Deputy Marshal Festus Hagen ( played by Ken Curtis ) gets involved and defends the reverend's mission.
While Confederate Major General Sterling Price enjoyed some successes during this campaign, he was decisively defeated at the Battle of Westport by Maj. Gen. Samuel R. Curtis and subsequently driven back into Arkansas by Union cavalry under Maj. Gen. Alfred Pleasonton.
While recuperating, she met her future husband, Curtis Borchardt, then a sophomore on Stanford's men's basketball team, who had just suffered a stress fracture in his right foot and missed the final 14 games of his season.
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