Something of Men I Have Known: With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective |
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... held the position of Speaker . Near General Banks sat the Hon . William D. Kelley of Pennsylvania . He had known many years of legislative service , and was long " the father of the House . " One of the features of its successive ...
... held the position of Speaker . Near General Banks sat the Hon . William D. Kelley of Pennsylvania . He had known many years of legislative service , and was long " the father of the House . " One of the features of its successive ...
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... held the Speakership for more than a century , only one , Mr. Polk , has ever reached the Presidency . The forty - fourth Congress was the last of which the Hon . William A. Wheeler of New York was a member . elected Vice - president in ...
... held the Speakership for more than a century , only one , Mr. Polk , has ever reached the Presidency . The forty - fourth Congress was the last of which the Hon . William A. Wheeler of New York was a member . elected Vice - president in ...
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... held high place at the hands of the party which he has but recently deserted , and to which he will no doubt return in due time . We have , however , in New England an old - time custom , as sacred as if part of the written law , that ...
... held high place at the hands of the party which he has but recently deserted , and to which he will no doubt return in due time . We have , however , in New England an old - time custom , as sacred as if part of the written law , that ...
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... held sturdily on his way . Amid political upheavals that overwhelmed all his associates upon the ticket , his name , like that of Abou Ben Ad- hem , led all the rest . From Pierce to McKinley — whatever the issues , and howsoever ...
... held sturdily on his way . Amid political upheavals that overwhelmed all his associates upon the ticket , his name , like that of Abou Ben Ad- hem , led all the rest . From Pierce to McKinley — whatever the issues , and howsoever ...
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... held in that body , was that more than one - third of those with whom I had so recently served were now in private life . Possibly no feature of our governmental system causes more astonishment to intelli- gent foreigners than the many ...
... held in that body , was that more than one - third of those with whom I had so recently served were now in private life . Possibly no feature of our governmental system causes more astonishment to intelli- gent foreigners than the many ...
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