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Samuel Jones Tilden
Samuel Jones Tilden 1814-86, American political figure, Democratic presidential candidate in 1876, b. New Lebanon, N.Y. Admitted to the bar in 1841, Tilden was an eminently successful lawyer, with many railroad companies as clients. He became a strong partisan of Martin Van Buren and the Barnbur... Read more
John Shaw Billings
John Shaw Billings 1838-1913, American surgeon and librarian, b. Indiana. In the Civil War he was medical inspector of the Army of the Potomac. After the war he was given charge of the Surgeon General's Library in Washington. The catalog entries greatly increased under his supervision by 1873, and ... Read more
Rutherford Birchard Hayes
Rutherford Birchard Hayes 1822-93, 19th President of the United States (1877-81), b. Delaware, Ohio, grad. Kenyon College, 1843, and Harvard law school, 1845. He became a moderately successful lawyer in Cincinnati and was made (1858) city solicitor. In the Civil War he began as a major of volunteer... Read more
Albert Arnold Gore, Jr.
Albert Arnold Gore, Jr. 1948-, vice president of the United States (1993-2001), b. Washington, D.C., grad. Harvard, 1969. After serving in the army in Vietnam and working as a reporter, he was elected (1976) to the U.S. House of Representatives from Tennessee as a Democrat. In the Senate (1985-93),... Read more
electoral college
electoral college in U.S. government, the body of electors that chooses the president and vice president. The Constitution, in Article 2, Section 1, provides: "Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senato... Read more
Reconstruction
Reconstruction 1865-77, in U.S. history, the period of readjustment following the Civil War. At the end of the Civil War , the defeated South was a ruined land. The physical destruction wrought by the invading Union forces was enormous, and the old social and economic order founded on slavery had ... Read more
Barnburners
Barnburners radical element of the Democratic party in New York state from 1842 to 1848, opposed to the conservative Hunkers . The name derives from the fabled Dutchman who burned his barn to rid it of rats; by implication, the Barnburners would destroy corporations and public works to do away wit... Read more
Henry Watterson
Henry Watterson 1840-1921, American journalist, b. Washington, D.C. Throughout most of his life he was known as "Marse Henry." Early in life he became a Washington newspaper reporter. He served with the Confederate army in the Civil War and for a time edited the Chattanooga (Tenn.) Rebel. Aft... Read more
William Collins Whitney
William Collins Whitney 1841-1904, American financier and political leader, b. Conway, Mass. After attending (1863-64) Harvard law school, he moved to New York City, became successful as a corporation lawyer, and was associated with various public utility companies and transportation interests. He ... Read more
Greenback party
Greenback party in U.S. history, political organization formed in the years 1874-76 to promote currency expansion. The members were principally farmers of the West and the South; stricken by the Panic of 1873, they saw salvation in an inflated currency that would wipe out the farm debts contracted ... Read more

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Bill Tilden
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Bill Tilden Bill Tilden (1893-1953), known as "Big Bill" and "Gentleman Bill," was...the game. "In the 1920s and 1930s," wrote Kim Shanley on , "Bill Tilden was to tennis what Babe Ruth was to baseball." William Tatem Tilden...
William Tatem Tilden, 2d
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition William Tatem Tilden, 2d (Bill Tilden), 1893-1953, American tennis player, b. Philadelphia. He...retention of the cup until 1926. After turning professional in 1931, Tilden won the professional singles championship in 1931 and 1935. In...
Evarts, William Maxwell
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law ...devices as faked leases, padded bills, false vouchers, unnecessary...between Democrat samuel j. tilden and Republican Rutherford B...these states, one favoring Tilden, the other Hayes. If Hayes...Oregon elector, he would defeat Tilden in a vote of 185 –...
Compromise of 1877
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History ...and the Democrat Samuel J. Tilden (1814–1886...buildings, and blocked harbors. Bills for such subsidies flooded Congress...opposed the pro‐Tilden filibuster plan of northern...was already on the wane, and Tilden would probably have wiped out...
Tweed, William Magear
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History ...x201D; intended to oversee bills relating to construction of...Democratic leader, Samuel J. Tilden, alleged that Tweed and his...for failing to properly audit bills. The first trial resulted in...senator he introduced or supported bills that created Riverside Drive...
Conkling, Roscoe
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law ...In 1877 Conkling made important contributions to the electoral commission bill that resolved the contested election between presidential candidates samuel j. tilden, a Democrat, and Hayes, a Republican. He also became a strong opponent of...
Lyman Trumbull
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...fellow Illinois senator Stephen A. Douglas in fostering that bill, joined ranks with the Republicans. Trumbull campaigned throughout...resumed his law practice in Chicago. He was one of Samuel J. Tilden's defense counsels in the disputed 1876 presidential election...
Albert Arnold Gore, Jr.
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...for the Democratic presidential nomination, but, in 1992, Bill Clinton chose him as his running mate. As vice president...2000 presidential vote the most contentious since the Hayes-Tilden election in 1876. Soon after the election, Gore began teaching...
electoral college
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...result of the disputed election of 1876 involving Samuel J. Tilden and Rutherford B. Hayes , the Electoral Count Act of 1887 placed...Kennedy (1960), Richard M. Nixon (1968, but not 1972), Bill Clinton (1992 and 1996), and George W. Bush (2000). Only...
Buried Child
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre ...evenings on the town with the local priest, Father Dewis ( Bill Wiley). His dying, drunken grandfather, Dodge ( Richard...me.” Vince must also confront his crazed father, Tilden ( Tom Noonan), and brutal, crippled uncle, Bradley ( Jay...

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O'Hara, Maureen
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Dame (Dieterle) (as Esmeralda) 1940 A Bill of Divorcement (Farrow) (as Sydney Fairfield...Wallace) (as Toni Donne) 1944 Buffalo Bill (Wellman) (as Louis Cody) 1945 The...Trigger Happy ) (Peckinpah) (as Kit Tilden) 1962 Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation (Koster...
Elections, Contested
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...approved panel chose Rutherford B. Hayes over Samuel J. Tilden. In the 2000 election, however, it was the U.S. Supreme...2000. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Sammon, Bill. At Any Cost: How Al Gore Tried to Steal the Election. Washington...
Cotten, Joseph
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Hitchcock) (as Uncle Charlie); Hers to Hold (Ryan) (as Bill Morley) 1944 Gaslight (The Murder in Thornton Square ) (Cukor...Regan); The Money Trap (Kennedy) (as Dr. Horace Van Tilden); Gli uomini dal passo pesante (The Tramplers ) (Sequi and...

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Tilden: a Federer of the 1920s who US turned its back on.(Sports)
Newspaper article from: Cape Argus (South Africa); 1/10/2007; 700+ words ; ...be wrong. Some time soon Federer and Bill Tilden are going to be closely linked by tennis...make a tawdry show just off Broadway. Tilden, or Big Bill as he became known, was born William Taten Tilden II to a privileged family in Philadelphia...
Tilden Associates, Inc. Reports Profitable 9 Months, Continued Acquisition and Franchise Development Selected for December stock pick by Internet company.
Business Wire; 12/10/1998; 700+ words ; ...to overseeing the 22 existing Tilden franchises located in Dade, Broward...In the state of New Jersey, Tilden sold the rights to Bill Comisso. Mr. Comisso is now...with his first state of the art Tilden facility in Verona, N.J...
BILL TILDEN: FROM ICON TO PARIAH.(SPORTS)
Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA); 3/9/1997; 700+ words ; ...the hot afternoon sun, watched as Bill Tilden's ashes were buried at Ivy Hill...the century's first 50 years, Tilden emerged with the widest margin of...baseball or Bobby Jones' in golf. ``Bill Tilden revolutionized the game of tennis...
TENNIS\Big Bill Tilden remembered\Burbank man keeps memory alive.(Sports)
Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA); 2/12/1996; 700+ words ; ...The year was 1945. Bill Tilden was 52 and he was not...sale would have made Bill happy, because the...buyers were honestly Tilden fans. In fact, they...loves to point out that Tilden was self-taught, that Big Bill developed the grip...
The man the US forgot; The story of Bill Tilden: the Federer of the 20s, who America turned its back on.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Saturday (South Africa); 1/27/2007; 700+ words ; ...be wrong. Some time soon Federer and Bill Tilden are going to be closely linked by tennis...make a tawdry show just off Broadway. Tilden, or Big Bill as he became known, was born William Taten Tilden II to a privileged family in Philadelphia...
TENNIS STAR BILL TILDEN'S LIFE DRAMATIZED
News Wire article from: United Press International; 3/27/2004; 700+ words ; ...International 03-27-2004 Tennis star Bill Tilden's life dramatized NEW YORK, Mar...gentleman" tennis star William Tatem Tilden II, known affectionately to his votaries around the world as Big Bill. Tilden hit his peak on the courts in the...
Tilden Park Now Boasts Some Of The Finest Facilities
Newspaper article from: Oakland Post; 10/21/1998; 700+ words ; ...local golf programs who call Tilden Park home, including the UC...area high school teams," says Tilden Park General Manager Cam Stephens...Leandro's General Manager Bill Cahoon. "Our new practice...designed 6300 `yard, par-70 Tilden Park Golf Course is located...
The trouble with Big Bill: tennis great Bill Tilden was disgraced because of his sexuality. Now playwright A.R. Gurney and star John Michael Higgins are telling his story.(theater)
Magazine article from: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine); 2/17/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...Gurney's Big Bill, opening at Lincoln...Open champion Bill Tilden. "If Take Me Out...Gurney's Big Bill--as directed by...characters of Big Bill's Tilden and Best's Scott...It's the way Tilden looked at it too...week run of Big Bill at the Williamstown...
Tilden faces facts, players stay loose // Blue-Central champion Blue Devils are hoping to rise to greater heights
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 3/2/1986; ; 700+ words ; Tilden is loose. The scrappy, 21-3 Blue Devils...yet," said 6-3 forward Alan Coleman, Tilden's tallest player. "If we win two more...the fact these kids are so loose," said Tilden coach John Schultz. "Because if we do...
Swank Tilden-Hall Hotel razed in 1961
Newspaper article from: The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL; 10/4/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...the Illinois, the Rogers and the Tilden-Hall. From the depths of the Great Depression to JFK and Camelot, the Tilden-Hall, a six-story hotel on the...lumbermen and building contractors William Tilden and Charles Hall took on the task of...