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Constance Cummings
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John J. Sirica
John Joseph Sirica U.S. District Court Judge John Joseph Sirica (1904-1992) came to national prominence when he presided over the Watergate affair trials and confronted President Richard Nixon's claim of executive privilege used to protect private presidential tapes. John Joseph Sirica was... Read more |
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Watergate affair
Watergate affair in U.S. history, series of scandals involving the administration of President Richard M. Nixon ; more specifically, the burglarizing of the Democratic party national headquarters in the Watergate apartment complex in Washington, D.C. The Watergate Break-in On June 17, 1972,... Read more |
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John Comyn (Red Comyn)
John Comyn d. 1306, Scottish nobleman. He was called the Red Comyn, to distinguish him from his father, the Black Comyn. Aiding his uncle, John de Baliol , in the struggle against Edward I, he was for a time held hostage by the English. After the rout of the Scottish troops at Falkirk (1298), he... Read more |
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John Newton Mitchell
MITCHELL, JOHN NEWTON John Newton Mitchell served as U.S. attorney general from 1969 to 1972. A key political adviser to President richard m. nixon, Mitchell was later convicted of crimes associated with the watergate scandal, becoming the first attorney general to serve time in a federal... Read more |
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Le Baron Russell Briggs
Briggs, Le Baron Russell (1855–1934), professor of creative writing at Harvard, who numbered among his pupils John Dos Passos, Robert Hillyer, E.E. Cummings, Conrad Aiken, and Stuart P. Sherman. As Dean Briggs he became something of a legend as a sympathetic and helpful teacher who... Read more |
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Samuel James Ervin
Samuel James Ervin , 1896-1985, U.S. senator (1954-75), b. Morganton, N.C. Admitted to the bar in 1919, he became a distinguished jurist, serving as a judge on a county criminal court (1935-37), the North Carolina superior court (1937-43), and the state supreme court (1948-54), before being... Read more |
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John Bowden Connally Jr
John Bowden Connally, JR. , 1917-93, U.S. public official, b. Floresville, Tex. A lawyer, he became associated with Lyndon B. Johnson , managed the latter's successful senatorial campaign in 1948, and later served as Johnson's administrative assistant. He was named secretary of the navy in 1961,... Read more |
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Homer Stille Cummings
CUMMINGS, HOMER STILLE Homer Stille Cummings was the 55th attorney general of the United States, serving from 1933 to 1939 in the administration of President franklin d. roosevelt. Cummings was a democratic party leader and an advocate for reform of prisons in the United States. He was instrumental... Read more |
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Lost generation
LOST GENERATION LOST GENERATION refers to a group of early-twentieth-century American writers, notably Hart Crane, e. e. cummings, John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Thornton Wilder, and Thomas Wolfe. The writings of these authors were shaped by World War I... Read more |
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