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...with its Reconstruction policy and would be in charge of military measures in the South. Stanton disapproved of the Tenure of Office Act but, nevertheless, when the President asked his resignation, he refused to give it. So the President suspended him and made General Grant Secretary of War ad interim. When Congress assembled, it refused to consent to Stanton's removal and he returned to his office in the War Department building. President Johnson, however, appointed General Lorenzo Thomas Secretary of War. When Thomas tried to take over the Department, Stanton refused to budge. He had a hot temper...
...remitted and property went back to its original owners. The first formal Jubilee was proclaimed by the bull of Boniface VIII, in 1300, granting afresh "great remission and indulgence for sins" to all who made pilgrimages that year to Rome and the basilica of the Prince of Apostles. The interim between Jubilees varied from 25 to 100 years; but was finally fixed at 25 years by Paul II, in the 15th Century. In the 19th, the Jubilee of 1825 was the only one held, political disturbances preventing...
Peter Pan. It is ever so long since one could go to Never-Never Land without taking a real steamship to get there. A great many children have grown up in the meantime. But perhaps it is just as well that the interim was a long one, for, inevitably, Never-Never Land has changed...
...preceding the execution of Private Morteza, the Persian Government handed the U. S. Charge dAffaires ad interim, at Teheran, a check...
...failure because he always went fishing instead of tending to work. In the first act, he adopts an illegitimate child born to the sister of his fiancee. The fiancee believes the child to be his and deserts. Twenty years later, the baby's mother, married in the interim to a mean country banker, dies of a broken heart; and Lazybones marries the child...