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	Platt Amendment Platt Amendment (1901).In 1901, U.S. Senator Orville Platt introduced an amendment to the U.S. Army appropriations bill specifying several conditions for the American military evacuation of Cuba. The two key provisions of the Platt Amendment, first proposed by Secretary of War Elihu Root,... Read more
	Stanley Baldwin Stanley Baldwin 1867-1947, British statesman; cousin of Rudyard Kipling. The son of a Worcestershire ironmaster, he was educated at Harrow and at Trinity College, Cambridge, and entered the family business. In 1908 he was elected to Parliament as a Conservative. In 1916 he became parliamentary... Read more
	Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar 1816-95, American lawyer, U.S. Attorney General (1869-70), b. Concord, Mass. While serving (1846) in the Massachusetts senate, he declared that he would rather be a "Conscience Whig" than a "Cotton Whig," thus originating an antislavery slogan. He was appointed U.S.... Read more
	Granville Sharp Granville Sharp 1735-1813, English reformer, scholar, and abolitionist. In 1772 he won a case establishing the principle that any slave would become free upon reaching British land. Sharp continued his abolitionist activities, notably the promotion of a colony of former slaves in Sierra Leone,... Read more
	Greater World Christian Spiritualist Association Greater World Christian Spiritualist Association British Spiritualist organization founded in 1931 as the Greater World Christian Spiritualist League. It grew out of the Zodiac Circle, which was organized in the early 1920s around the mediumship of Winifred Moyes. Moyes was a channel who... Read more
	Morley Callaghan Morley Callaghan (Morley Edward Callaghan) , 1903-90, Canadian novelist. During the 1920s he spent time in Paris, where he became friends with Ernest Hemingway , whose influence can be detected in Callaghan's spare literary style; he recalls these years in That Summer in Paris (1963).... Read more
	Pierre Laval Pierre Laval , 1883-1945, French politician. Elected (1914) to the chamber of deputies as a Socialist, he held various cabinet posts and in 1926 became a senator as an Independent, moving away from his leftist affiliations. In 1931-32 and 1935-36 he was premier and foreign minister. With Sir Samuel... Read more
	Georg Simmel Georg Simmel , 1858-1918, German philosopher and sociologist. At the universities of Berlin and Strasbourg he was an influential lecturer. Basing his social philosophy on a broad historical foundation, he did much to establish German sociology as an independent discipline. His chief works are ... Read more
	Frisbee Frisbee Background Nearly 300 million frisbees have been sold since their introduction 40 years ago, for both organized sports and recreational play. According to Mattel, 90% of Americans have played with this flying toy at one time or another, translating to 15 million... Read more

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	ASK THE GLOBE Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) Q. G. F. Hoar was a US senator from Massachusetts at...live? -- A.E., Harwich Center A. George Frisbie Hoar (1826-1904) was born in Concord...and McKinley each offered to appoint Hoar ambassador to England, but he declined...
	Fewer Bases, More Baseball.(Ain't My America: The Long, Noble History of... Magazine article from: The American Conservative ...where there is a standing army," George Mason told Virginia's ratifying...Tertium Quids, is samizdat in George Bush's America. "Today, most...Grand Old Party, no less--and George Frisbie Hoar of Massachusetts supported the...
	Alaska + Hawaii = Puerto Rico. (dangers of statehood for territories outside... Magazine article from: The American Enterprise ...chair and in pidgin English proceed to chop logic with George Frisbie Hoar or Henry Cabot Lodge?" Poor Champ didn't know the...here and looking after the heritage we were left by George Washington, who told us to beware of any foreign entanglements...
	Faith in the Founding Fathers Magazine article from: The Spectator ...although it depends on the premise that the influence of George W. Bush is over and that Barack Obama will be the next...Constitution and your notions of what is good', argued George Frisbie Hoar, Massachusetts senator. The section, dazzling for...
	D.C. Council Member Rockwood H. Foster Newspaper article from: The Washington Post ...s side. His great-grandfather was Sen. George Frisbie Hoar (R-Mass.), whose own son was Rep. Rockwood Hoar (R-Mass.). Rockwood Hoar Foster was a native of Boston and a 1948 graduate...
	A look at history of Hub race relations Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) ...1890, directed at irregularities in the South. Massachusetts's Representative Henry Cabot Lodge and Senator George Frisbie Hoar led the ultimately unsuccessful fight in Washington, but back home the bill was being attacked in The Boston Globe...
	In Democratic state, a GOP governor draws familiar question Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) ...their supporters had a very low opinion of Democrats, as expressed in 1890 in "Forum" magazine by US Senator George Frisbie Hoar, a Massachusetts Republican icon. "The men who do the work of piety and charity in our churches," he argued...
	Neighborhood schools not black-and-white issue. Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald They had names of statesmen like William Bradford and George Frisbie Hoar. They had names of orators like William Lloyd Garrison and the preacher Phillips Brooks. A proud city saluted them all and others...
	Profiles in Character: Hubris and Heroism in the U. S. Senate,... Magazine article from: The Historian ...Oligarchy" between 1870 and 1940. George Frisbie Hoar never swerved from the principles...year later. William E. Borah and George W. Norris both began as progressive...Hernon's heroes, Fessenden and Hoar. Derived almost wholly from ...
	THE NEW DEPARTURE DEBATE SURROUNDING CONGRESSIONAL EFFORTS TO CREATE A... Magazine article from: American Educational History Journal Congressman George Frisbie Hoar of Massachusetts introduced a bill, "to establish a system of national education" on February 25, 1870. This bill, and others...