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Office of Consumer Affairs
Office of Consumer Affairs agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce, established 1971. The office advises and represents the president on matters of consumer interest, and analyzes and coordinates activities of the federal government in the area of consumer protection. It conducts investigations a... Read more
Daniel Ken Inouye
Daniel Ken Inouye , 1924-, U.S. politician, b. Honolulu. A Democratic senator from Hawaii since 1963, he was a member of the committee that investigated the Watergate affair (1973-74) and served as chairman of the committee that investigated the Iran-contra affair (1987). He became chair of the ... Read more
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Bureau of Indian Affairs created (1824) in the U.S. War Dept. and transferred (1849) to the U.S. Dept. of the Interior. The War Dept. managed Native American affairs after 1789, but a separate bureau was not set up for many years. It had jurisdiction over trade with Native Americans, their removal ... Read more
Caroline Affair
Caroline Affair In 1837 a group of men led by William Lyon Mackenzie rebelled in Upper Canada (now Ontario), demanding a more democratic government. There was much sympathy for their cause in the United States, and a small steamer, the Caroline, owned by U.S. citizens, carried men and supplies ... Read more
Iran-contra affair
Iran-contra affair in U.S. history, secret arrangement in the 1980s to provide funds to the Nicaraguan contra rebels from profits gained by selling arms to Iran. The Iran-contra affair was the product of two separate initiatives during the administration of President Ronald Reagan . The first was ... Read more
Charles Eustis Bohlen
Charles Eustis Bohlen , 1904-74, American diplomat, born Clayton, N.Y. He entered (1929) the U.S. Foreign Service and undertook several consular assignments. A specialist in Russian affairs, Bohlen served as Russian interpreter for President Franklin Delano Roosevelt at the Tehran and Yalta conferen... Read more
Omar Nelson Bradley
Omar Nelson Bradley 1893-1981, U.S. general, b. Clark, Mo. A graduate of West Point, he served in World War I and filled various army administrative and academic posts before assuming (1943) command of the 2d Corps in World War II. Bradley was active (1943) in the N African and Sicilian campaigns a... Read more
Henry Laurens Dawes
Henry Laurens Dawes 1816-1903, U.S. Senator (1875-93), b. Cummington, Mass. He was U.S. district attorney for W Massachusetts (1853-57) and a Republican member of the House of Representatives (1857-75). He performed his most important service as chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs an... Read more
Terry Waite
Terry Waite (Terence Waite), 1939-, British church official. An adviser to Robert Runcie , the Archbishop of Canterbury, he successfully negotiated the release of British hostages in Iran (1981) and Libya (1985). His later efforts to free U.S. hostages in Beirut were unsuccessful and were compromi... Read more
Walt Whitman Rostow
Walt Whitman Rostow 1916-2003, U.S. economist and government official, brother of Eugene Rostow , b. New York City. A Yale Ph.D. (1940) and Rhodes scholar, he served (1942-45) with the covert Office of Strategic Services during World War II and later was (1950-61) a professor of economic history a... Read more

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Tz'u-hsi
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...and in international affairs relied on Prince Kung...on palace and state affairs. Under the influence...which forced Tz'u-hsi to flee to Sian...resulted in Tz'u-hsi's final acceptance...tried to implement 2 years earlier. The...examinations in 1905. Tz'u-hsi died on Nov...
U-2 Spy Plane Incident
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...Burlatsky and Georgy Arbatov contend that Khrushchev used the U-2 incident as an excuse to scuttle what he anticipated would...1986). Mayday: Eisenhower, Khrushchev, and the U-2 Affair. New York: Harper and Row. Taubman, William. (2003...
Napoleonic Wars, Impact on the U.S. Economy (Issue)
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History ...NAPOLEONIC WARS, IMPACT ON THE U.S. ECONOMY (ISSUE...earned an estimated $7.2 million. By 1796 these...Between 1792 and 1795, U.S. exports doubled...northeastern ports. The second U.S. economic phase linked with European affairs began in December 1807...
SIC 9451 Administration of Veterans Affairs, Except Health and Insurance
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American Israel Public Affairs Committee
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE The American...group that lobbies for U.S. support to the nation...has lobbied Congress for U.S. foreign aid to Israel...addition, it has lobbied for U.S. military aid to Israel...estimates that it monitors 2,000 hours of congressional...
Iran-Contra Affair
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, and Security Iran-Contra Affair █ LARRY GILMAN...independent counsel by the U.S. Court of Appeals...bill was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives forbidding U.S. covert actions...Korea, and Israel; (2) wealthy Americans sympathetic...
Iran–Contra Affair
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...Iran – Contra Affair The Iran-Contra affair...Iran in contravention of U.S. policy and without...congressional approval; and (2) the diversion of the...exchange for the release of U.S. hostages being held...for the release of the U.S. hostages, as well...
Judiciary Power and Practice
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy ...policy" and "foreign affairs" do not appear in the U.S. Constitution, and...Indeed, Article 3, Section 2 states that "judicial...While Article 3, Section 2 of the Constitution extends...the determination of U.S. neutrality; the...
Georgi Vasilyevich Chicherin
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...the foundation of the U.S.S.R. Born in...s commissar of foreign affairs, succeeding Leon Trotsky...stability in international affairs and thus facilitated development...as commissar of foreign affairs in 1930 and spent the...x2026; 1917-1929 (2 vols., 1930; 2d ed...
The Constitution
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy ...comprehensive grant of a foreign affairs authority in the U.S. Constitution. Rather, the...formulation, management, and conduct of U.S. foreign policy. The constitutional...govern the militia. As Article 2, Section 2, of the Constitution indicates...

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Land Office, U.S. General and Bureau Plans Management
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History LAND OFFICE, U.S. GENERAL AND BUREAU...MANAGEMENT LAND OFFICE, U.S. GENERAL AND BUREAU...MANAGEMENT. In 1812 the U.S. General Land Office...with the Office of Indian Affairs, the Bureau of Patents...provisions of the granting act, 2,891,000 acres of richly...
Report on the Iran-Contra Affair (13 November 1987)
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...REPORT ON THE IRAN-CONTRA AFFAIR (13 November 1987) In...government in Nicaragua. The U.S. officials concealed...Report on the Iran-Contra Affair, the result of Congressional...Crises ; Iran-Contra Affair ; National Security Council...foreign country, Country 2, to the Contras, when...
Russo, Rene
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Beverly Hills, CA 90212, U.S.A. Films as Actress...1999 The Thomas Crown Affair (McTiernan) (as Catherine...The Thomas Crown Affair," in Rolling Stone, 2 September 1999...remake of The Thomas Crown Affair (1999), starring the...sergeant from Internal Affairs who keeps right up with...
Special Forces
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...have participated in most U.S. conflicts since World...defeat insurgency); civil affairs and psychological operations...about 43,000, or nearly 2 percent of total U.S. military strength...new unified command, the U.S. Special Operations...
Cohl, Emile
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...child: Andrée; 2) Suzanne Delpy, 1896; child...des Films-Eclair, left for U.S.; began Newlywed series...chez les fantoches (A Love Affair in Toyland ; Mystical Love...eriques (X-Ray Glasses ); Affairs de coeur (Affairs of Hearts ) 1910 Cadres fleuris...
Bardot, Brigitte
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Vadim, 1952 (divorced 1957); 2) the actor Jacques Charrier...God Created Woman established U.S. stardom; 1957—...xE9;tait conté (Affairs in Versailles ; Royal Affairs in Versailles ) (Guitry...xE9;e (A Very Private Affair ) (Malle) (as Jill) 1963...
Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...congressional message on Indian affairs entitled "The Forgotten...with the Bureau of Indian Affairs to administer their own...and the Bureau of Indian Affairs to cover a number of programs...Research Journal 22, no. 2 (1998): 71 –...Indian ; Indian Policy, U.S., 1900 –...
Nonintervention Policy
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...nonintervention in the internal affairs of sovereign states. President...s guideline for early U.S. foreign relations...nonintervention as the backbone of U.S. foreign policy came...of the nation address on 2 December 1823 that American...Diplomacy: A History of U.S. Intervention Policies...
Fontaine, Joan
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...grew up in Saratoga, California; became U.S. citizen, 1943. Education: Attended...Brian Aherne, 1939 (divorced 1944); 2) the producer William Dozier, 1946...as Lady Dona St. Columb) 1945 The Affairs of Susan (Seiter) (as Susan Darell...Ray) (as Christabel Caine); September Affair (Dieterle) (as ...
Reynolds, Debbie
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...actress Carrie Fisher, son: Todd Fisher; 2) Harry Karl, 1960 (divorced 1973...Boulevard, North Hollywood, CA 91606, U.S.A. Films as Actress: 1948 June...Melvin (Weis) (as Judy Leroy); The Affairs of Dobie Gillis (Weis) (as Pansy Hammer...as Julie Gillis) 1956 The Catered Affair (Richard Brooks) ...

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