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1957Moon's Bride Came C.O.D. - After a courtship by mail between Edmonton and Hong Kong, Moon Chai Lim Noey and Chui Man Chan are married - article with photos; The Third Face of Eve - the completely authenticated account of the three entirely separate lives of a young U.S. housewife hailed by psychiatrists as perhaps the most dramatic study ever conducted of the baffling problem of multiple personality - portrayed in film by Joanne Woodward; TV show 'Gunsmoke' - a grown-up western - article with photos of Matt Dillon/Jim Arness; Fantastic full-page colour ad for Coffee Crisp and Aero Chocolate Bars - "Canada's Favourites"; Sandra Dee - brief article with three photos; Feast for Art Lovers - Art Fair arranged by the Women's Committee of the Winnipeg Art Gallery - brief article with many photos; Colour photos of the Royal visit to Ottawa including huge colour-photo centerfold image of the Queen speaking in the Senate Chamber with Prime Minister Diefenbaker to her side; To Win an NHL Title You've Got to Have a Take-Charge Guy - article with photos of Flaman, Jean Beliveau, Doug Harvey, Gordie Howe, Ted Lindsay, Dick Duff and Andy Bathgate, by Andy O'Brien; Family Up a Tree - Amazing photos of the tree house in which the Dorton family lives in Lexington, Kentucky; Fantastic colour photo and write-up for Edmonton Eskimo star Jackie Parker; The Identical Leavy Twins of Vancouver - Jack and Leo are six feet, 10 inches tall and weigh 340 pounds! - article with photos; Photo of Alfons Arndt lifting a polar bear on his shoulders; Nipper cartoon strip by Doug Wright; Gregory Clark tells about the Puff-Ball. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A nice copy. Book
1965réf. 727046PN. New. 1965. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition. . PN paperback
2013réf. 1356205PN. New. 2013. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition. . PN paperback
1969réf. 2601220012United States Government Printing Office Washington D.C 1969. Paperback. Acceptable. 5x0x8. Signed. Inscribed by Judge John Robert Brown on front cover. Softcover. Shelf wear. Spine creased sunned. Scattered markings. vi 727 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. "John R. Brown was a Federal judge who played a major role in desegregation cases that transformed the South. The Judge John R. Brown Admiralty Moot Court Competition was established shortly before Brown's death and is now held annually sponsored by the University of Texas School of Law. United States Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C paperback
1872réf. 1504030008GPO 1872-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. The investigation of Congress into the Klu-Klux Conspiracy. Report No. 41 part 1. Hardcover. Rebound in fine modern green cloth. Gold lettering and head and tail lines. Internally some marginal chipping and loss to edges of first nine pages otherwise text in very good condition without markings or wear. Report No. 41 Part 1 from the Senate of the United States 2nd Session of the 42nd Congress Report by the Joint Select Committee of the Senate on the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States. Covers the report issued by the Senate on March 10th 1871 on the state of affairs in the southern states that ultimately led to the passage of the Enforcement Act of 1871 to battle corruption within the new state governments and violence on the part of the Ku Klux Klan. This volume also covers an investigation of the economic conditions in the Reconstruction South as well as infrastructure development. From the complete and scarce 1872 Ku Klux Klan reports regarding their rebellious activities. Considered one of the most complete chronicles of the Klan from the Reconstruction Era. This volume contains numerous interviews with prominent citizens local officials victims of Klan activity and other witnesses. The investigation of Klan activity was part of the larger effort to eliminate the Ku Klux Klan altogether with the Enforcement Act of 1871 which was also known as the Civil Rights Act of 1871 or the Ku Klux Klan Act. This act empowered the President to suppress state disorders and suspend the right of habeus corpus in the wake of racial violence and intimidation initiated by the Ku Klux Klan and their supporters. GPO hardcover
1928réf. 229208Ottawa: F. A. Acland Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty 1928. Hardcover. Very Good. 7 x 10. 338 pages in very good condition. Pages are clean and unmarked. A pocket with 9 maps attached to the back endpaper. Page edges are lightly darkened. Bound in green cloth with fading gilt titles. Lightly worn around the edges. Lightly faded on the spine. SCARCE. VG F. A. Acland, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty hardcover
2006réf. 85185Washington DC: United States Senate 2006. Presumed First Edition First printing. Wraps. Very good/No dust jacket issued. Format is approximately 8.25 inches by 11 inches. 148 4 pages. Footnotes. Blacked out portions/redactions. A study conducted by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence that reviewed U.S. intelligence on the existence of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs Iraq's ties to terrorist groups Saddam Hussein's threat to stability and security in the region and his violations of human rights. The Senate Report on Iraqi WMD Intelligence formally the Report of the Select Committee on Intelligence on the U.S. Intelligence Community's Prewar Intelligence Assessments on Iraq was the report by the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence concerning the U.S. intelligence community's assessments of Iraq during the time leading up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The report which was released on July 9 2004 identified numerous failures in the intelligence-gathering and -analysis process. The report found that these failures led to the creation of inaccurate materials that misled both government policy makers and the American public. The Committee's nine Republicans and eight Democrats agreed on the report's major conclusions and unanimously endorsed its findings. They disagreed though on the impact that statements on Iraq by senior members of the Bush administration had on the intelligence process. The second phase of the investigation addressing the way senior policymakers used the intelligence was published on May 25 2007. Portions of the phase II report not released at that time include the review of public statements by U.S. government leaders prior to the war and the assessment of the activities of Douglas Feith and the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans. The report's "additional views" The Republican and Democratic members of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence voted unanimously to approve the finished report. There were however significant areas of disagreement with those disagreements being expressed in the form of "additional views" attached at the end of the report proper. In the first "additional view" attached to the report Chairman Pat Roberts R-KS joined by Senators Orrin Hatch R-UT and Christopher Bond R-MO presents two conclusions that Democratic members of the Committee were unwilling to include in the report even though according to Roberts "there was no dispute with the underlying facts." Those two conclusions related to the actions of Joseph Wilson the former ambassador who was sent to Niger in 2002 to investigate allegations that the Iraqi government was attempting to purchase "yellowcake" uranium presumably as part of an attempt to revive Iraq's nuclear weapons program. The two conclusions were that the plan to send Wilson to investigate the Niger allegation was suggested by Wilson's wife a CIA employee and that in his later public statements criticizing the Bush administration Wilson included information he had learned from press accounts misrepresenting it as firsthand knowledge. This additional view also discusses the question of pressure on analysts and recommends caution in implementing reforms in the intelligence community. Senators John D. Rockefeller D-WV the Committee's vice-chairman Carl Levin D-MI and Richard Durbin D-IL used their additional view to say that the report painted an incomplete picture because the Committee had put off until phase two of the investigation the key question of "how intelligence on Iraq was used or misused by Administration officials in public statements and reports." Because of this they said "the Committee's phase one report fails to fully explain the environment of intense pressure in which Intelligence Community officials were asked to render judgments on matters relating to Iraq when policy officials had already forcefully stated their own conclusions in public." The third additional view in the report is by Senator Saxby Chambliss R-GA with Senators Orrin Hatch R-UT Trent Lott R-MS Chuck Hagel R-NE and Christopher Bond R-MO. It focuses on the issues of information sharing and Human Intelligence HUMINT and rebuts the allegation of "pressure" contained in the additional view by Senators Rockefeller Levin and Durbin. Senator Olympia Snow R-ME wrote in her additional view that the Committee's report revealed poor management and a lack of accountability in the intelligence community and she called for strong reforms. United States Senate paperback
1853réf. 101262Treasury Department November 23 1853. 1853. Fine. - Over 25 words penned on 6-1/4 inch high by 4 inch white paper with an attached blank leaf. Secretary of the Treasury James Guthrie writes to Julius Ives Jr. "Please receive this note as my compliance with the request contained in yours of the 21st instant." Signed "James Guthrie". Folded vertically and horizontally the note appears to have once been mounted in an album with small remnants of paper adhering to the corners of the blank leaf's verso. Else near fine. The American lawyer plantation owner and railroad president James Guthrie 1792-1869 served as the United States Secretary of the Treasury under Franklin Pierce and James Buchanan. He subsequently became president of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. He unsuccessfully ran for his party's nomination for the presidency but was later elected to the U.S. Senate from Kentucky in 1865. Treasury Department, November 23, 1853. unknown
1825réf. 24326Washington: Gales & Seaton 1825. 336pp. Gathered signatures untrimmed lightly foxed entirely unsophisticated. Very Good. All the work of this Session of the Senate. FIRST EDITION. AI 22902 2. Gales & Seaton unknown
1825réf. 24326Washington: Gales & Seaton 1825. 336pp. Gathered signatures untrimmed lightly foxed entirely unsophisticated. Very Good. All the work of this Session of the Senate. FIRST EDITION. AI 22902 2. Gales & Seaton unknown books
2002réf. 64112Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 2002. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. iv594 p. Includes illustrations. S. Hrg. 107-318. This fireld hearing heard from local citizens and officals and national experts on a range of issues important to the community including children's health childhood leukemia cancer clusters and environmentally-related health problems. U.S. Government Printing Office paperback
1988réf. 65911Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1988. Wraps. Very good. No dust jacket. v 640 p. 24 cm. Illustrations Forms. Title continues: "First Session May 20 21 27 and 28 1987 Testimony of Adolfo P. Calero John K. Singlaug Ellen C. Garwood William B. O'BOyle Joseph Coors Robert C. Dutton Felix I. Rodriguez and Lewis A. Tambs." "100-3." U.S. Government Printing Office paperback
1981réf. 61692Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office 1981. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Bottom edge has some soiling. vi 769 p. 24 cm. Illustrations. Occasional footnotes. Serial No. J-97-47. U.S. Government Printing Office paperback
1982réf. 91196Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1982. Presumed First Edition First Printing. Wraps. Good. iii 1 404 pages. Footnotes. Tabular data. Cover has some wear and soiling. Mailing label residue on the back page. This includes statements from Wilbur Campbell Ken Cory Charles DiBona Ed Gabriel Saul Goodman David Linowes Charles Mankin William Pendley Pete Smith Laurence Steenberg and Malcolm Wallop. The Federal Energy and Mineral Resources Act of 1982 S. 2305 hearings were held before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources during the 97th Congress. They addressed severe revenue shortfalls and accounting problems in the collection of mineral royalties from federal and Indian lands.The legislation responded to findings by the Commission on Fiscal Accountability of the Nation's Energy Resources which highlighted lax site security and ineffective royalty collection. The Government Accountability Office GAO testified in support of the bill noting that historical site security on federal and Indian lands was "extremely lax". The GAO urged the Department of Interior to take the lead in developing strict site security and inspection strategies. The hearings centered on modernizing the accounting and control of royalties establishing minimum standards for site security plans and mandating record-keeping for mineral transport. Proposals included provisions allowing the Secretary of the Interior to delegate audit and inspection responsibilities to states provided a uniform and effective accounting system was used. The bill also required strict protections for Indian lands requiring permission from affected tribes for such delegation. U.S. Government Printing Office paperback
2005réf. 53047Place_Pub: Washington DC: GPO 2005. First Edition. First Printing. very good. 774 wraps figures footnotes. Serial No. J-109-1. S. Hrg. 109-4. This is the record of the confirmation hearing of one of the more controversial Attorney General appointees and the testimony of the representative of the Center for the Victims of Torture carries renewed significance in light of subsequent disclosures. GPO paperback
1978réf. 51770Place_Pub: Washington DC: GPO 1978. First Edition. First Printing. good. 391 wraps some creasing to front cover and lower corner of several pages Subtitled: Joint hearings on S. 2750 to reorganize and consolidate certain functions of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Federal Reserve System into a Federal Bank Commission to administer all Federal laws relating to the examination supervision and regulation of the banking business both foreign and domestic. GPO paperback
1980réf. 91174Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1980. Presumed First Edition First printing. Wraps. Very good. 203 1 pages. Tabular Data. Index. Wraps. Mailing label residue on front cover. This report by the Committee on Appropriations to which was referred the bill H.R. 4389 making appropriations for the Departments of Labor and Health Education and Welfare and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30 1980 and for other purposes reports the same to the Senate with various amendments and presents herewith information relative to the changes recommended. The Departments of Labor and Health Education and Welfare HEW Appropriations Act for FY 1980 H.R. 4389/H.R. 7998 faced significant delays due to disagreements over abortion funding. The bill which ultimately covered the redesignated Department of Health and Human Services HHS set funding for labor programs and health education and social services. Key aspects of the 1980 appropriations discussions included: Labor Appropriations: Funding for the Employment and Training Administration OSHA with restrictions on small business inspections and the Mine Safety and Health Administration; Health and Human Services: Funding for the CDC NIH and other health services; Transformation: The period marked the transition of HEW into the Department of Health and Human Services and the creation of the separate Department of Education. Intense debates over the "Hyde Amendment" abortion funding caused substantial delays in final passage. Hearings for the 1980 fiscal year covered detailed budgetary requirements for these departments. U.S. Government Printing Office paperback
1984réf. 53477Place_Pub: Washington DC: GPO 1984. good. 24 cm 656 & 724 2-vol. set wraps appendices some discoloration to spines. This two-volume set marks the start of the Kennedy administration. Topics covered include relations with the Soviet Union the Cuban situation and the Bay of Pigs invastion and the Geneva Test Ban conference. GPO paperback
1981réf. 52219Place_Pub: Washington DC: GPO 1981. very good. 245 wraps footnotes figures tables Complete subtitle: Hearings on oversight on Monetary Policy Report to Congress pursuant to Public Law 95-523. GPO paperback
1980réf. 52218Place_Pub: Washington DC: GPO 1980. very good. 279 wraps footnotes figures tables Complete subtitle: Hearings on oversight on Monetary Policy Report to Congress pursuant to Public Law 95-523. GPO paperback
1976réf. 55626Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office 1976. presumed First Edition First printing. Wraps. Good. Senate document 94th Congress 2d Session Report No. 94-755. viii 651 5 pages. Wraps. Figures. Footnotes. Appendices. Glossary. Small tears at spine slight soiling to text staples in front cover small stains on title page. Inscribed to Nancy Brooks by Michael Madigan Staff Counsel and Spencer Davis Staff Press Secretary. In 1973 the Senate Watergate Committee investigation revealed that the executive branch had directed national intelligence agencies to carry out constitutionally questionable domestic security operations. In 1974 Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh published a front-page New York Times article claiming that the CIA had been spying on anti-war activists for more than a decade violating the agency's charter. Former CIA officials and some lawmakers including Senators William Proxmire and Stuart Symington called for a congressional inquiry. On January 21 1975 Senator John Pastore introduced a resolution to establish a select committee to investigate federal intelligence operations and determine "the extent if any to which illegal improper or unethical activities were engaged in by any agency of the Federal Government." The Senate approved the resolution 82-4. The final report included 96 recommendations legislative and regulatory designed "to place intelligence activities within the constitutional scheme for controlling government power." The committee recommended strengthening oversight of intelligence activities. Majority Leader Mike Mansfield cautioned the Senate "against letting the affair become a ‘television extravaganza.'" He and Republican Leader Hugh Scott carefully selected committee members balancing experienced lawmakers with junior members and ensuring that members represented a variety of political viewpoints. Mansfield selected Democrat Frank Church of Idaho to serve as chairman. A 16-year member of the Committee on Foreign Relations Church recognized the strategic value of the nation's top intelligence agencies and was also mindful of the need for American institutions to function within the confines of U.S. constitutional law. He had aggressively lobbied to lead the investigation. Republican John Tower of Texas a member of the Armed Services Committee was selected as the committee's vice-chairman. The committee decided that most of its hearings would be held in closed executive session in order to protect intelligence sources and methods. The committee held a series of public hearings in September and October of 1975 to educate the American public about the "unlawful or improper conduct" of the intelligence community highlighting a few carefully selected cases of misconduct. These hearings examined a CIA biological agents program a White House domestic surveillance program IRS intelligence activities and the FBI's program to disrupt the civil rights and anti-Vietnam War movements. These nationally televised events offered the American public an opportunity to learn about the secret operations conducted for decades by U.S. intelligence agencies. The committee faced a formidable task: to conduct a wide-ranging investigation of the nation's most secret agencies and programs and based on those findings write a detailed report including legislative recommendations. All of this work was to be completed within one year later extended to 16 months. After a meeting with President Gerald Ford and his top national security advisors Church and Vice-Chairman Tower secured from the president a pledge that the White House would cooperate with Senate investigators. Staff identified potential programs for study and began requesting documents from intelligence agencies. Though staff did not always receive documents in a timely fashion they enjoyed unprecedented access to materials that had never before been made public. Perhaps the most well-known of these internal reports the CIA's so-called "Family Jewels" outlined the agency's misdeeds dating back to President Dwight Eisenhower's administration. This report as well as those found in other agencies provided road maps that staff investigators used to piece together complicated histories of domestic foreign and military intelligence programs during the Cold War era. Even with a peak staff of 150 however organizing and analyzing these materials proved to be an arduous task. After holding 126 full committee meetings 40 subcommittee hearings interviewing some 800 witnesses in public and closed sessions and combing through 110000 documents the committee published its final report on April 29 1976. Congress approved legislation to provide for greater checks and balances of the intelligence community. In 1978 Congress approved and President Jimmy Carter signed into law the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act FISA requiring the executive branch to request warrants for wiretapping and surveillance purposes from a newly formed FISA Court. Today the Church Committee reports and hearings are frequently used by scholars who continue to examine U.S. intelligence activities during the Cold War era. U. S. Government Printing Office paperback
1979réf. 52216Place_Pub: Washington DC: GPO 1979. very good. 284 wraps notes footnotes tables The unrestricted expansion of the tax exempt bond market through mortgage revenue bonds may impose a revenue loss at a time that the government may be least able to afford it. GPO paperback
2004réf. 48688Washington DC: GPO 2004. very good. 1578 wraps appendix figures. S. Hrg. 108-633. Officials from Riggs Bank testified that they failed to provide internal controls sound training and effective monitoring to guarantee that the bank complied with Federal laws governing the reporting of large financial transfers and suspicious activity. GPO paperback
2005réf. 47958Washington DC: GPO 2005. First Edition. First Printing. good. 1745 wraps figures tables appendix covers somewhat worn soiled and crease at back. S. Hrg. 109-185. GPO paperback
1979réf. 51585Washington DC: GPO 1979. good. 565 Part I only wraps illus. tables appendix small tears to cover edges and to top and bottom spine edges An inquiry into the relationship between individual beneficiaries and the investment policies of their pension funds. GPO paperback
