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6 Jan 2010, 7:33 am
Soon thereafter, Richard Olney, a prominent railroad lawyer, came to Washington to serve as Grover Cleveland's attorney general. [read post]
9 Oct 2009, 11:21 am
George Will, before the Nobel Peace Prize: Presidents often come to be characterized by particular adjectives: "honest" Abe Lincoln, "Grover the Good" Cleveland, "energetic" Theodore Roosevelt, "idealistic" Woodrow Wilson, "Silent Cal" Coolidge, "confident" FDR, "likable" Ike Eisenhower. [read post]
6 Sep 2009, 8:55 pm
MISTER, WE COULD USE SOME MEN LIKE GROVER CLEVELAND AGAIN. [read post]
4 Sep 2009, 3:19 pm
Twelve years later, following the 1894 Pullman Strike in Illinois that culminated a nationwide conflict between American unions and railroad workers, President Grover Cleveland made labor his top political priority. [read post]
17 Aug 2009, 7:40 am
Edwards: voters forgave Grover Cleveland the paternity, but they do mind lies [Mickey Kaus] Issue in New Orleans case: defamatory to call tour guides “thugs”? [read post]
14 Mar 2009, 6:57 pm
UPDATE: Reader Bill Keane writes: It is unsettlingly reminiscent of the comment made by Secretary of Treasury John Carlisle during Grover Cleveland’s second term. [read post]
20 Jan 2009, 10:48 pm
Many of you answered correctly that Grover Cleveland was both the 22nd and 24th President of the US. [read post]
5 Nov 2008, 9:16 am
. #2 — John Adams (Harvard, then apprenticed as a lawyer) #3 — Thomas Jefferson (College of William & Mary, then apprenticed as a lawyer) #4 — James Madison (College of New Jersey — now Princeton — then read law) #6 — John Quincy Adams (Harvard, then apprenticed as a lawyer) #7 — Andrew Jackson (self-taught lawyer) #8 — Martin Van Buren (Kinderhook Academy, then apprenticed as a lawyer) #10 — John Tyler… [read post]
25 Sep 2008, 3:20 pm
Superior Court Probate Division to view a free exhibit of the wills of famous Washingtonians including: Alexander Graham Bell (inventor) President Grover Cleveland President... [read post]
3 Sep 2008, 5:22 am
(Image Source: Anti-Grover Cleveland political cartoon of 1884, Wikicommons) [read post]
1 Sep 2008, 2:31 pm
Conceived by America's labor unions as a testament to their cause, the legislation sanctioning the holiday was shepherded through Congress amid labor unrest and signed by President Grover Cleveland as a reluctant election-year compromise. [read post]
31 Aug 2008, 1:41 am
Oh, the gnashing of teeth among various pundits about Palin's inexperience (see DailyKos for a small roundup of newspaper editorials). [read post]
10 Aug 2008, 2:23 am
I see that lots of people are picking up on the comparison between John Edwards and Grover Cleveland. [read post]
6 Aug 2008, 4:08 pm
In editing Lysander Spooner's 1886 A Letter to Grover Cleveland for a conference I am organizing, I happened upon the following colorful observation I thought others might enjoy:... [read post]
13 Jun 2008, 10:01 am
Department of Labor was signed into law by President Grover Cleveland. [read post]
14 May 2008, 4:07 pm
Speaking of Cleveland, and another come-back kid: Grover Cleveland was president 1885-1889, was out of office for four years, and then president again 1893-1897. [read post]
26 Mar 2008, 8:25 am
The following Presidents had no military experience whatsoever: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, John Quincy Adams, Martin Van Buren, Grover Cleveland, William Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin Roosevelt, and Bill Clinton. [read post]
20 Mar 2008, 6:20 am
After the Times's article claiming that the Supreme Court has become more pro-business, Rick Hills gives us a fascinating take on what might be going on:We are in the midst of a second Gilded Age, in which appointees of either pro-business Democrats (Clinton now, Grover Cleveland then) or pro-business Republicans, dominate the Court. [read post]
19 Mar 2008, 6:03 am
We are in the midst of a second Gilded Age, in which appointees of either pro-business Democrats (Clinton now, Grover Cleveland then) or pro-business Republicans, dominate the Court. [read post]
6 Mar 2008, 9:47 am
Immediately after the takeover of the government of the sovereign nation of Hawaii, President Grover Cleveland commissioned an investigation of this unauthorized coup. [read post]
