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(Encyclopedia) Hackensack, city (2020 pop. 46,030),
seat of Bergen co., NE N.J., on the Hackensack River, a residential and
industrial suburb of New York City; settled...
(Encyclopedia) United States Coast Guard Academy, at New London, Conn.; for training young men and women to be officers of the U.S. Coast Guard; established 1876, opened 1877 as United States Revenue Cutter Service ...
(Encyclopedia) chamber of commerce, local association of business people organized to promote the welfare of their community, especially its commercial interests. Each chamber of commerce usually has an elected boar...
(Encyclopedia) Hughes, Charles Evans hyo͞oz [key], 1862–1948, American statesman and jurist, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1910–16), U.S. secretary of state (1921–25), and 11th chief justice of...
(Encyclopedia) Szell, George sĕl [key], 1897–1970, American conductor and pianist, b. Budapest. He moved with his family to Vienna during his childhood and started his piano training at an early age studying at t...
(Encyclopedia) Barrows, Samuel June, 1845–1909, American clergyman and reformer, b. New York City. He was a pastor in Dorchester, Mass., and later edited (1880–96) the Christian Register, a Unitarian weekly. In ...
(Encyclopedia) Congress of the United States, the legislative branch of the federal government, instituted (1789) by Article 1 of the Constitution of the United States, which prescribes its membership and defines it...
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Supreme Court, United States, highest court of the United States, established by Article 3 of the Constitution of the United States.
With the emergence of a working conservative majority,...
(Encyclopedia) Albany
1, 3, 4 ôlˈbənē; 2
ôlˈbĕnˌē, ălbāˈnē
[key]. 1 Residential city (2020 pop. 20,271), Alameda co., W Calif., on the
eastern shore of San Francisco...
(Encyclopedia) Senate, United States: see Congress of the United States.
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