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4 days ago · Secretary of State Thomas F. Bayard negotiated an extension to the Chinese Exclusion Act, and Cleveland lobbied the Congress to pass the Scott Act, written by Congressman William Lawrence Scott, which prevented the return of Chinese immigrants who left the United States.
1 day ago · Tilden defeated Thomas A. Hendricks, Winfield Scott Hancock, William Allen, Thomas F. Bayard, and Joel Parker for the presidential nomination. Tilden overcame strong opposition from "Honest John" Kelly, the leader of New York's Tammany Hall, to obtain the presidential nomination.
3 days ago · Six men were officially candidates for nomination at the convention, and several others also received votes. Of these, the two leading candidates were Major General Winfield Scott Hancock from Pennsylvania and Senator Thomas F. Bayard from Delaware.
5 days ago · The three brothers Yakov, 34, Shmiel, 28, and Yoil Weingarten, 36—all leaders of the Guatemala-based Lev Tahor cult—were sentenced to 14, 14 and a dozen years, respectively, on Tuesday for “child sexual exploitation and kidnapping offenses,” the U.S. Justice Department stated.
2 days ago · Ed Helms' podcast explores a 1971 break-in at an FBI office in Delco that exposed mass government surveillance. The burglary is the subject of the second season of 'Snafu,' which tells 'history's ...
2 days ago · MILWAUKEE (AP) — Cheering GOP delegates formally nominated Donald Trump for president at Monday’s Republican National Convention kickoff, less than two days after an assassination attempt on the former president and shortly after he announced Ohio Sen. JD Vance as his vice presidential running mate.
5 days ago · Consider the case of Eliezer Hager (1924-2015), a name that would later become revered in ultra-Orthodox circles as the admor (“spiritual leader”) of the Seret-Vizhnitz Chassidic dynasty. As a young man, Hager enlisted in the Haganah’s religious platoon in Haifa.
