House Armed Services Committee
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House Armed Services Committee a committee of the U.S. House of Representatives organized under the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, uniting the House
Military Affairs Committee and the
Naval Affairs Committee. The House Armed Services Committee is responsible for the common defense generally, for any activity undertaken by the
Department of Defense or by departments of the Army, Navy, or Air Force, and for the
Selective Service system. Committee membership, averaging between thirty-three and fifty-four members, reflects party membership in the House as a whole. Subcommittees deal with hearings, investigations, and drafting legislation concerning military installations, personnel, procurement, readiness, research and development, sea power, and strategic materials.
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Fort Dix Trained Military for 90 Years
News Wire article from: AP Online; 5/8/2007; 510 words
; ...nearly all of the 90 years that Fort Dix has trained American military personnel...War I. It was named for Maj. Gen. John Adams Dix, who served as governor of New York...as the Pinelands. Recently, Fort Dix has been training soldiers for warfare...
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McCarthy Critic John Adams Dies at 91
News Wire article from: AP Online; 6/27/2003; 509 words
; ...00-00-0000 Dateline: DALLAS John G. Adams, whose criticism of Joseph McCarthy...three years later. According to Adams, McCarthy and aide Roy M. Cohn...Pvt. G. David Schine at Fort Dix, N.J. Adams said Cohn threatened to wreck the...
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John G. Adams; helped bring down Sen. Joseph McCarthy
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 6/29/2003; 571 words
; DALLAS--John G. Adams, whose criticism of Joseph McCarthy...three years later. According to Mr. Adams, McCarthy and aide Roy M. Cohn targeted...stationed Pvt. G. David Schine at Fort Dix, N.J. Mr. Adams said Cohn threatened to "wreck the...
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Appointments
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 9/29/2003; 596 words
; ...Sons International Inc. appointed John Adams Dix project director/architecture...following: Fred A. Krehbiel chairman; John P. Grube deputy vice chairman...Kunkler, Cherryl T. Thomas and John W. Taylor III vice chairmen. EDUCATION...
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The auction block
Magazine article from: Military Images; 7/1/2002; ; 672 words
; ...creases. Lot brought $178.05. Carte de visite by E&HT Anthony, New York, from a "Photographic Negative in Brady's National Portrait Gallery" (imprint verso) of Union Army Major General John Adams Dix. Lot brought $54.50.
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A. Epstein and Sons International.(People/firms)
Magazine article from: Building Design & Construction; 10/1/2003; 317 words
; John Adams Dix has been appointed project director for architecture for A. Epstein and Sons International, Chicago.
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Travel vet gets ticket to run luxury rail tour operation.(People)(Peter Boese )(president of American Orient Express)
Newspaper article from: Crain's Chicago Business; 10/13/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...In his new post, Mr. Boese says his first priority is to keep the trains full. ARCHITECTURE/ENGINEERING John Adams Dix, 56, to project director of architecture at A. Epstein & Sons International Inc., from managing director...
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New Hampshire: a shuffled deck
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 3/31/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...decisive victory. So the progress of Pete Wilson in the state house here -- past the portrait of Civil War hero Gen. John Adams Dix ("If anyone attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot"), past the portraits of Senators...
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Meet the Judges.(Allyn Adams managed the growth company services practice )(John Andrica oversees the consulting and acquisitions at Union Partners)
Magazine article from: Crain's Cleveland Business; 10/20/2008; 700+ words
; ...community organizations, Mr. Adams is chairman of the John Carroll University board...JCU since 1997. Mr. Adams received in June the Ohio...accounting profession. JOHN ANDRICA FOUNDER AND MANAGING...retiring and moving to Dix & Eaton. He rejoined...
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Top team scores recorded
Newspaper article from: Citizen Gloucestershire, The; 3/7/2009; 700+ words
; ...Coney Hill RFC 6 683 N Adams & D Sargent, 78 Cockers...664 P Barnfield & A Dix, 73; Jolly Boys 2...Maiden & L Fisher, 75 John Carr AFC 4 677 T Cadwell...Tuffley Rangers 0 623 S Dix, 72 Glockners 6 652...76 Rowdites 6 627 John Walsh, 68; Panthers...
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John Adams Dix
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
John Adams Dix 1798-1879, American statesman, b. Boscawen...later (1866-69) minister to France. Dix was prominent in railroad affairs and became...the long-time president of the Erie RR. Dix served as Republican governor of New York...
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Dix, John Adams
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
Dix, John Adams (1798–1879) Union army officer, born in Boscawen, New Hampshire. Dix joined the army at the age of fourteen to fight in the War of 1812 , serving...
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Morgan Dix
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...American Episcopal clergyman, b. New York City; son of John A. Dix. He was rector of Trinity Church in New York City from 1862 to 1908. Among his writings are Memoirs of John Adams Dix (1883) and History of the Parish of Trinity Church...
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Boston
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
...by such divines and laymen as John Cotton, Edward Johnson, John Eliot, the Mathers, Benjamin...led such Bostonians as Samuel Adams, John Hancock, and James Otis to form...humanitarian activities of Dorothea Dix, Samuel G. Howe, and the antislavery...
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