Sent from Tokyo to a Japanese Embassy in Washington, it was encoded in the top-level Japanese "Purple Code", it stated that the Japanese were going to end relations with the United States. ... These men were the military's "top brass" in Washington and the only officers authorized to forward such sensitive intelligence to remote commanders. ... The most stunning was a "joint House-Senate probe" that reiterated the Roberts Commission findings. ... But, a close friend of Knox, the secretary of the Navy, later revealed that Knox, Stark, and Marshall spent most of that night in the White H...

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A letter from Delegate Joseph Jones to George Washington suggests the immediate pay to the solider by enforcing tariffs and taxation. George Washington blocked this threatened military coup aimed at strengthening the central government and guaranteeing back pay and pensions to officers as the war came to an end. ... The addition of the western lands would strengthen the Congress because the sale of lands would provide a source of national revenue. ... In a letter from John Jay to George Washington June 27, 1786 (Doc. ... In a speech to the South Carolina House of Representatives (Doc. ...

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Many people, including farmers, businessmen, and high ups in Washington alike, believe that the lifting of the embargo would be beneficial for business and tourism, as well as the possibility to help steer Cuba as a whole away from the communist government they are currently ruled by, and to have them adopt some sort of democracy (Berrios 3). ... The sale of food and medical supplies to individuals rather than Cuba as a government is permitted, as well as humanitarian aid, special granted visiting rights for certain U.S. citizens (students learning abroad, journalists, artists and sporting g...

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House of Representatives. After one year in the house, Jackson was elected to fill out an unexpired term in the U.S. senate. ... Nearing the age of 62, Jackson arrived in Washington D.C. for his inauguration. ... It directed government agents to accept only gold or silver for the sale of land. ... He brought this rugged tough guy attitude to the white house and people appreciated it. ...

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Wanted to replace NY slums with parks, while reformers worked for tenement house laws. ... Hull House- Adams started a coffee-house here in attempt to lure neighbors away from evils of saloon Women's Christian Temperance Union- headed antiliquor movement in 80's-90's, and after 1900 by the Anti-Saloon League and religious/social supporters. ... Same day Pure Food and Drug Act passed Newlands Act- Natl Reclamation Act set aside proceeds from sale of public land to pay for irrigation projects, limited water in the West. ...

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In a speech to the Illinois House of Representatives, on December 18, 1840, Abraham Lincoln said, "Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. ... Since then Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Alaska, Maine, and Nevada have passed similar laws. ... His strategies would consist of the government exercising strong regulatory powers over all large-scale production and sale of marijuana and to make marijuana available only to competent adults, just the same as alcohol and tobacco. ... (Unanswered) Richard Dennis, the chairperson of the advisory board of the Drug Policy Foundation ...

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Taylor talks of the actions of the Prime Minister, "Baldwin, went off to Washington to settle Great Britain's debt Baldwin agreed to an unconditional settlement on harsh terms." ... The old fashioned England of villages and churches; the England of roads, cafes and new houses, the England of new industries and prosperity and the fourth England of mass unemployment. ... During this time local councils built approximately 700,000 houses for letting, whilst private industries built two million for sale. ... House building and buying increased. ...

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Sebastian Mauchly had a PhD in physics from the University of Cincinnati and in 1913 the family moved to Washington D.C. when Sebastian was "appointed as head of the Terrestrial Electricity and Magnetism section at the Carnegie Institute" (upenn). ... As a boy whenever the "neighbors had trouble with the wiring in their houses" (McCartney), they would often call young Mauchly. ... He graduated from The McKinley Technical High School of Washington, D.C. in 1925. ...

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