• The Olmsted Amendment was a modification to the Foraker Act of 1900, and became law on July 16, 1909. The law was designed to modify several perceived...
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    a civilian government in Puerto Rico, was modified by the Olmsted Amendment. This amendment placed the supervision of Puerto Rican affairs in the jurisdiction...
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    allow for more Puerto Ricans to hold government posts. In 1909, the Olmsted Amendment gave the United States Congress and president more power over the...
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    involved in the political dispute that culminated in adoption of the Olmsted Amendment and led some prominent Puerto Rican attorneys to unsuccessfully advocate...
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    resulting in a political crisis on the island and passage of the Olmsted Amendment at the request of President William Howard Taft. Following Post's...
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    Minnesota Amendment 1 (also called Minnesota Marriage Amendment or Minnesota Gay Marriage Amendment) was a legislatively referred constitutional amendment proposed...
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    p. 63 Olmsted 2002, p. 22 Kessler 2003, p. 77 Kessler 2003, p. 150 Olmsted 2002, p. 45 Olmsted 2002, pp. 50, 51 Olmsted 2002, pp. 63–65 Olmsted 2002,...
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    Commission, they were inspired by the designs of landscape architects the Olmsted Brothers and architecture firm D. H. Burnham and Company used in many of...
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    His opponents included Cleveland City Councilman Joe Cimperman and North Olmsted Mayor Thomas O'Grady. In February 2008, Kucinich raised around $50,000...
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  • established in 1855 in Chicago, Illinois, and was initially known as "L. D. Olmsted & Co." but is now known as "Baird & Warner". In 1908, the National Association...
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    2007. Olmsted 1852, p. 83 Foderaro, Lisa W. (30 October 2019). "The Parks That Made the Man Who Made Central Park". The New York Times. Olmsted 1852,...
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  • illegal and a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. An earlier case that the Supreme Court had taken...
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    ConservationTools.org. Online. http://conservationtools.org/guides/show/52. Olmsted, James (Fall 2011). "Conservation Easements: New Perspectives in an Evolving...
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    Martin Meeker Mille Lacs Morrison Mower Murray Micollet Nobles Norman Olmsted Pine Polk Pipestone Pope Redwood Renville Rock Scott Stearns Sherburne...
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    Pantheon Books. p. 194. ISBN 0-394-74077-7. Retrieved November 10, 2018. Olmsted, Kathryn S. (2002). Red Spy Queen: A Biography of Elizabeth Bentley. The...
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  • lean toward some level of immunity". Reuters. Retrieved April 25, 2024. Olmsted, Edith (April 25, 2024). "Sonia Sotomayor Shreds Claim President Can Kill...
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  • came to the attention of Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted, the bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Phoenix. Olmsted spoke to McBride privately and she confirmed...
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    election[update], this is the last election in which Washington County, Olmsted County, and Dakota County voted for the Republican candidate. This was...
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  • the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution; a group of abolitionists, led by the landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, desired to found...
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  • about the poor quality of the food and service, was described by Larry Olmsted of Forbes as "the most scathing review in the history of the New York Times...
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    County, and Rock County voted for a Democratic presidential candidate. Olmsted County would not vote Democratic again until 2008. Aitkin Blue Earth Brown...
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    Archived from the original on July 25, 2024. Retrieved July 27, 2024. Olmsted, Edith (July 25, 2024). "Republicans Really Wish Trump Hadn't Picked J...
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    the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and co-authored the Hughes–Ryan Amendment, passed in 1974, which requires the president of the United States to...
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    (Largest city: International Falls) Clearwater (Largest city: Bagley) Olmsted (largest city: Rochester) Fillmore (largest city: Spring Valley) Freeborn...
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    Trump's $175M bond for civil judgment". ABC News. Retrieved April 21, 2024. Olmsted, Edith (April 20, 2024). "New York AG Asks Judge to Reject Trump's $175...
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    Dot. Archived from the original on May 10, 2024. Retrieved May 10, 2024. Olmsted, Edith (May 8, 2024). "Republican Introduces Absurd Bill to Send Arrested...
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    Edward Bassett, Alfred Bettman, Morris Knowles, Nelson Lewis, Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., and Lawrence Veiller. The Advisory Committee on Zoning appointed a...
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    Commission designed in the 1920s by the Olmsted Brothers firm, who were the sons of landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted. Several county and municipal parks...
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    September, Olmsted was assigned to work exclusively on Morningside Park, and he was dropped from his position as superintendent of other parks. Olmsted and Vaux...
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    against an amendment offered by Brian Schatz expressing the sense of Congress regarding climate change but in favor of a similar amendment offered by...
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