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...d their authority to prevent the departure of new hostile expeditions from British ports. The Emperor of France has, by a like proceeding, promptly v... ...o merchandise warehoused under bond the privilege of being exported to the British North American prov- inces adjoining the United States, in the mann... ... other ports, situated on the frontiers of the United States adjoining the British North American provinces, as may hereafter be found expedient, may ... ...e great enterprise of connecting the Atlantic with the Pa- cific States by railways and telegraph lines has been entered upon with a vigor that gives ... ... your continued patronage the be- nevolent institutions of the District of Columbia which have hitherto been established or fostered by Congress, and ...
...ontain Autria four times, Germany or Spain five times, France six times, the British Is lands or Italy ten times. Conceptions formed from the river ... ...es—in brief has $1,000,000 invested in manufacturing industries. She has two railways, Life on the Mississippi Mark T wain 179 and is the commerci... ...nces; it commands the commerce of the Yazoo and Sunflower Rivers; is pushing railways in several directions, through rich agricultural regions, and ha... ...hem. Here is a picture from the adver tisement of the “Female Institute” of Columbia; Tennessee. The following remark is from the same advertisement—... ...e nation to cel ebrate the battle of New Orleans—Jackson’s victory over the British, January 8, 1815. The war had ended, the two na tions were at pe... ...y friend went on summer vacation up into the fishing regions of our northern British neighbors, and carried this sermon with him, since he might possi... ...seen, that one doubts them when he does see them. The custom ary half dozen railways center in Hannibal now, and there is a new depot which cost a hu...
...to live in flooded, swampy areas? Based on a theory developed in 1930 by British marine biologist Alistair Hardy, Elaine Morgan‘s provocative book ... ...tion of its operation on next page after end of this chapter. Renowned British brain researcher Michael Crawford, PhD, argues quite persuasively ... ...far-flung as Greece, Sicily, Italy, North Africa, southern Spain, and the British Isles. Vowel signs were missing The Phoenician‘s twenty-two sign... ...irst voyage to America. The great navigator‘s son, Ferdinand, founded the Columbian Library at Seville, where his father‘s copy may still be seen. H... ...cientific discovery was bringing drastic changes to the American scene. Railways and steamships shrank distances, and machinery superseded hand lab... ...notype Model 1 that became the sensation of the Chicago‘s Worlds Fair—the Columbian Exposition—in 1893. Even so, Mergenthaler still faced a potenti... ...ce and market metric and library devices. Named chief librarian later at Columbia College, New York, he set up its School of Library Economy—the wo...
...6, '97, '98, '99, '00, '01, '02, '03, '04, '05 also to Amherst, Princetoo, Columbia, Dart- mouth, Harvard, V'ale and the others. COTRELL & LEONARD 47J... ...!), graduated from Williams in 1858 and in ISfil re- ceived his LL.D. from Columbia law school. In the same year he was admitted to the bar and shortl... .... Lee was npijointed professor of Real Estate and Equity Juris|)rudence at Columbia law school. He has also served as lecturer at North- western unive... ...tinal de- bate: "Kesolveil, that a policy of municipal ownership of street railways is best in American cities." The camiidates are to speak in tlie f... ... the question: ''Resolved, That a policy of ninnicipal ownership of street railways is best in American cities,'' which was evi- dently not thoroughly... ...ation is bettor than a policy of private ownership and operation of street railways in cities of the United States." The debate will be held on Thursd... ...of North Amerion opennd on November 22 with addresses by Hon, James Bryoe, British ambassador to the United States, Governor Glenn of North Carolina a...
... 20 Belize 22 Benin 23 Bermuda 25 Bhutan 26 Bolivia 27 Botswana 28 Brazil 30 British Indian Ocean Territory 31 British Virgin Islands 32 Brunei 33 Bul... ...c tons; 1.946 billion metric tons/km; highways 1.298 billion metric tons/km; railways 618.8 million metric tons/km; internal waterways 29.2 million me... ...ances home; 26.4% unemployed (1984) Government Official name: Anguilla Type: British dependent territory Capital: The Valley Legal system: based on En... ... Antiguan Ethnic divisions: almost entirely of black African origin; some of British, Portuguese, Lebanese, and Syrian origin Religion: Anglican (pred... ... 1987) Fiscal year: calendar year Communications Railroads: Belgian National Railways (SNCB) operates 3,741 km 1.435-meter standard gauge, government ... ...r: calendar year Communications Railroads: 14,925 km total; Cuban Na- tional Railways operates 5,295 km of 1.435-meter gauge track; 199 km electri- fi... ...an occa- sional source of friction with Costa Rica; territorial dispute with Columbia over San Andres and Providencia Archipelago Climate: tropical in... ...l: Washington, D. C. Administrative divisions: 50 states and the District of Columbia Dependent areas: American Samoa, Baker Island, Guam, Howland Isl...
...the Employment Bureau. This is much like the very successful American and British schemes of “Welfare to Work”. I recommend linking the size of i... ...enerally accepted in most industrial countries after the war. In 1944 the British government stated in its White Paper on Employment Policy that "th... ...nd stable level of employment after the war." One of the most influential British economists at this time was Sir William Beveridge, whose book Full... ...gaps opening up among workers following botched privatizations (e.g., the railways, the post office). Bellicose, fogeyish, trade unions leverage the... ...former East Germany relied on public financing. The government of British Columbia in Canada is equally involved through its "Employee Share Ownersh...
...tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface." Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894-1963), British writer I. Overview of Theories of Anarchism Politics... ...ry language for a minute, what group does not behave this way? Harvard alumni, the British Commonwealth, the European Union, the Irish or the Itali... ...cond mortal sin by transforming itself into an outpost and beacon of Western (first British-French, then American) neo-colonialism. As the represent... ...s marriages, which was later imitated by lower classes (Ancient Egypt, Hawaii, Pre-Columbian Mixtec). Some societies are more tolerant of consensua... ...ank is to insolvency, the more inclined it is to risky lending. Nobuhiko Hibara of Columbia University demonstrated this effect convincingly in the... ...hone have been similarly heralded as "global" and transforming. The power grid and railways were also greeted with universal enthusiasm and acclaim... ...us marriages, which was later imitated by lower classes (Ancient Egypt, Hawaii, Pre-Columbian Mixtec). Some societies are more tolerant of consensua... ...dvances (just recall the millenarian fervour with which electricity, the telegraph, railways, the radio, television and the Internet were greeted). ...
...vented them and soldered the aperture. Except for the la- bel, the “Finest Columbia Salmon” was ready for the mar- ket. I was impressed not so much wi... ... fare with the Indians “way back in the fifties,” when every ripple of the Columbia River and her tributaries hid covert danger. God had dowered him w... ... of being alive. This have I known once in Japan, once on the banks of the Columbia, what time the salmon came in and California howled, and once agai... ...y they inspire (two trunks and a walking-stick and a bit of pine forest in British Columbia are not satisfactory, any way you look at them), I turned ... ...ts of the English syn- dicates who have invested their money in breweries, railways, and the like, and in the third, it’s not to be done. Everybody kn...
... live in flooded, swampy areas? Based on a theory developed in 1930 by British marine biologist Alistair Hardy, Elaine Morgan‘s provocative book ... ...easy-to-harvest shellfish—like today‘s scallops—in abundance.‖ Renowned British brain researcher Michael Crawford, PhD, argues quite persuasively ... ...far-flung as Greece, Sicily, Italy, North Africa, southern Spain, and the British Isles. Vowel signs were missing The Phoenician‘s twenty-two si... ...irst voyage to America. The great navigator‘s son, Ferdinand, founded the Columbian Library at Seville, where his father‘s copy may still be seen. H... ...entific discovery was bringing drastic changes to the American scene. Railways and steamships shrank distances, and machinery superseded hand lab... ...notype Model 1 that became the sensation of the Chicago‘s Worlds Fair—the Columbian Exposition—in 1893. Even so, Mergenthaler still faced a poten... ...e and market metric and library devices. Named chief librarian later at Columbia College, New York, he set up its School of Library Economy—the wo...
...e pangs which Nature calls upon mothers to endure. As was the necessity of British opposition to American independence, so was the necessity of Northe... ...ration gave violent offense to the North, and has been taken as indicating British sympathy with the cause of the seceders. I am not going to explain—... ...should be defined. Reticence in the matter was not within the power of the British government. It behooved the Foreign Secretary of State to declare o... ...te; and a thriving, comfortable town it seems to be, full of banks, fed by railways and steamers, and going ahead quite as quickly as Roger Williams c... ...enditure has had anything to do with it. I conceive it to be true that the railways are afraid to put themselves at variance with the general feeling ... ... themselves at variance with the general feeling of the people. If so, the railways may be right. But then, on the other band, the general feeling of ... ...lation of the United States as it stood in 1860,— The separate District of Columbia, in which is included Washington, the seat of the Federal Governme... ...same. These four States, by two of which the capital, with its District of Columbia, is sur- rounded, might be gained or might be lost. And these four... ...any of the poor of Baltimore had lived, was desecrated in my eyes by those columbiads. The neat earth-works were ugly, as looked upon by me; and thoug...
...ant-at-arms, Homer of New Jersey door-keeper, and McCormick of District of Columbia postmaster. The Whig majority in the House is so small that, toget... ...hould choose to say he thinks it necessary to invade Canada to prevent the British from invading us, how could you stop him? You may say to him,—I see... ...s, how could you stop him? You may say to him,—I see no probability of the British invading us”; but he will say to you, “Be silent: I see it, if you ... ...tely your son, A. LINCOLN. 1849 BILL TO ABOLISH SLAVERY IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Resolved, That the Committee on the District of Co- lumbia be inst... ...ates, in Congress assembled, That no person not now within the District of Columbia, nor now owned by any person or persons now resident within it, no... ...ngs of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Two BILL GRANTING LANDS TO THE STATES TO MAKE RAILWAYS AND CANALS REMARKS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRE- SENTATIVES, FEBRUARY 13,... ... he was again elected Speaker. Early in 1814, being the period of our last British war, Mr. Clay was sent as commissioner, with others, to negotiate a...
...between Rockhampton and London, who had risen to the rank of sarang on the British India boats, but wearying of routine musters and clean clothes, had... ...l right. He’s got something on his mind. You’d think that ten years in the British India boats would have knocked most of his religion out of him.” “S... ...ed officer of the regiment, an “unmixed” Bhil, a Companion of the Order of British India, with thirty-five years’ spotless service in the army, and a ... ...ught as ardently as his father had striven to wreck, be- fore capture, the railways of his native land; and it must have been some touch of the old ba... ...ouche, owners of rivers, ranches, and shipping in their playtime, lords of railways, kerosene, wheat, and cattle in their offices. When the green mint... ...several thousand miles of line, as Mr. Sargent does, would be apt to treat railways a shade more casually than other people.” “Of course; of course. H... ...ment to her steam- whistle, the twelve-hundred-ton ocean-going steam-yacht Columbia, lying at her private pier, to take to his office, at an average s...
...ver, both the Capitol and Execu tive Mansion would be burned by an invading British gar rison, and the city thrown into a panic. ABOUT TO ADD THE... ...d death on maimed and defenseless captives. And, what was never before seen, British commanders have extorted victory over the unconquerable valor of ... ...ar to an honorable issue. Our nation is in number more than half that of the British Isles. It is composed of a brave, a free, a virtuous, and an inte... ...s can never be realized by any agency of mine. The people of the District of Columbia are not the subjects of the people of the States, but free Ameri... ...citizen—the grant to Congress of exclusive jurisdiction in the Dis trict of Columbia can be interpreted, so far as respects the aggregate people of t... ...the superior. It has also passed a model child labor law for the District of Columbia. In previous administrations an arbitration law for interstate c... ... railway employees, to urge Congress to require its adop tion by interstate railways. INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES 234 ...
... war against the idea of imperialism, not German imperial- ism merely, but British and French and Russian imperial- ism, and we were saying this not b... ...ayle’s “Great Settle- ment” (1915), a frankly sceptical treatment from the British Imperialist point of view, on the other. An illuminating dis- cussi... ...ce with an unrevolutionized Germany, an idea to which, in common with most British people, I am bitterly opposed. Walsh’s “World Rebuilt” is a good ex... ...ves or property of aliens in any part of the union outside the district of Columbia. The state governments still see to that. The federal government h... ...e middle African Customs, the regulation of inter-State trade, inter-State railways and wa- terways, quarantine and health generally, and the establis... ...rban district was beyond the scope of the Greek imagination. There were no railways, telegraphs, telephones, books or newspapers, there was no need fo... ...bedience is not without its price. These are matters vitally affecting our railways and ships and com- munications generally, the food and health of t...
...time. Owing to the irregularities of the coast it is not easy of access by railways from different sides. Baltimore would have been far better. But as... ... about through the Patent-office I also found a hospital for sol- diers. A British officer was with me who pronounced it to be, in its kind, very good... ...miles square, was cut out of the two States and was called the District of Columbia. The greater portion of this district was taken from Maryland, and... ...gement was made, the State of Virginia petitioned to have their portion of Columbia back again, and this petition was granted. Now it is felt that the... ...or or as a Representative. Mount Vernon was never within the Dis- trict of Columbia. When I first made inquiry on the subject, I was told that Mount V... ... impede the celerity of the work to be done, and that a closer copy of the British model might not on the whole increase the efficiency of the America... ... Committee on Foreign Affairs, which position is as near akin to that of a British minister in Parliament as can be attained under the existing Consti... ...very few available roads running North and South through these States. The railways came before roads; and even where the railways are far asunder, al... ...ances without. Consequently such roads as there are run later- ally to the railways, meeting them at this point or that, and thus maintaining the comm...
... the enemy had done to him. Very probably the Navy is the exception to the British sys- tem; its officers are rescued from the dull homes and dull sch... ...rn to speak French. Heaven alone knows what they do with their brains! The British reading and thinking public probably does not number fifty thousand... ...nited States is fluid. Equally notable is the enor- mous proportion of the British prosperous which winters either in the high Alps or along the Rivie... ...ch there is any manifest probabil- ity. Western Europe is now a network of railways, tramways, high roads, wires of all sorts; its chief beasts of bur... ...ch as Europe reserves only for crowned heads. The evidence of the American railways, then, suggests very strongly what a hundred other signs confirm, ... ...llions make up five hundred towns. Between these centres of population run railways indeed, telegraph wires, telephone connections, tracks of various ... ...of any highly organised national system. Govern- ment from the district of Columbia is in itself the repudia- tion of any highly organised national sy...
...ssociation. From 1849 onward the greater part of his time was spent in the British Museum, accumulating, with German patience, the materi- als for his... ...miserable highways, required centuries, the modern proletarians, thanks to railways, achieve in a few years. This organization of the proletarians int... ...eir brain ceased to think, their eyes to see. The thoroughly “respectable” British jurymen answered by a verdict that sent them to the next assizes on... ...ir verdict, expressed the pious hope that the capitalistic magnates of the railways would, in future, be more extravagant in the purchase of a suffici... ...r.[See pp. 42-43, and 160 of “Syndicalism in France,” Louis Levine, Ph.D. (Columbia University Studies in Political Science, vol. xlvi, No. 3.) This i... ...to on moral grounds. A form which 49 Bertrand Russell has been adopted on railways, particularly in Italian strikes, is that of obeying all rules lit... ... uproot them. The Times (Oct. 13, 1910), which almost single-handed in the British Press has kept creditably abreast of Continental Syndicalism, thus ...