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# Resignation of Michael D. Brown as Head of FEMA

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Statement by Michael D. Brown, Under Secretary of Department of Homeland Security Emergency Preparedness & Response and Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency:
Release Date: September 12, 2005 Release Number: HQ-05-MBR
"Today I resigned as Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. As I told the President, it is important that I leave now to avoid further distraction from the ongoing mission of FEMA.
"It has been an honor and a privilege to serve this President and to work shoulder to shoulder with the hard working men and women of FEMA. They carry out an unusually difficult task under the harshest of circumstances. My respect for these dedicated professionals and this organization is unyielding.
"There is no other government agency that reaches people in a more direct way. It has been the best job in the world to help Americans in their darkest hours."
-- Under Secretary Michael D. Brown
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# Resignation (Young)

RESIGNATION
In TWO PARTS.
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A POSTSCRIPT.
To Mrs. B*******
By Doctor YOUNG, Author of the Night-Thoughts.
LONDON:
M,DCC;LXII.
* Part 1
* Part 2
* Postscript
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# Resignation as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army

Addressed to the Congress of the Confederation, then meeting in Annapolis, Maryland on 23 December 1783.
Mr President
The great events on which my resignation depended having at length taken place; I have now the honor of offering my sincere Congratulations to Congress and of presenting myself before them to surrender into their hands the trust committed to me, and to claim the indulgence of retiring from the Service of my Country.
Happy in the confirmation of our Independence and Sovereignty, and pleased with the opportunity afforded the United States of becoming a respectable Nation, I resign with satisfaction the Appointment I accepted with diffidence. A diffidence in my abilities to accomplish so arduous a task, which however was superseded by a confidence in the rectitude of our Cause, the support of the supreme Power of the Union, and the patronage of Heaven.
The Successful termination of the War has verified the most sanguine expectations, and my gratitude for the interposition of Providence, and the assistance I have received from my Countrymen, increases with every review of the momentous Contest.
While I repeat my obligations to the Army in general, I should do injustice to my own feelings not to acknowledge in this place the peculiar Services and distinguished merits of the Gentlemen who have been attached to my person during the War. It was impossible the choice of confidential Officers to compose my family should have been more fortunate. Permit me Sir, to recommend in particular those, who have continued in Service to the present moment, as worthy of the favorable notice and patronage of Congress.
I consider it an indispensable duty to close this last solemn act of my Official life, by commending the Interests of our dearest Country to the protection of Almighty God, and those who have the superintendence of them, to his holy keeping.
Having now finished the work assigned to me, I retire from the great theatre of Action; and bidding an Affectionate farewell to this August body under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my Commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life.
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# Rootabaga Stories/Never Kick a Slipper at the Moon

Never Kick a Slipper at the Moon
When a girl is growing up in the Rootabaga Country she learns some things to do, some things not to do.
"Never kick a slipper at the moon if it is the time for the Dancing Slipper Moon when the slim early moon looks like the toe and the heel of a dancer's foot," was the advice Mr. Wishes, the father of Peter Potato Blossom Wishes, gave to his daughter.
"Why?" she asked him.
"Because your slipper will go straight up, on and on to the moon, and fasten itself on the moon as if the moon is a foot ready for dancing," said Mr. Wishes.
​"A long time ago there was one night when a secret word was passed around to all the shoes standing in the bedrooms and closets.
"The whisper of the secret was: 'To-night all the shoes and the slippers and the boots of the world are going walking without any feet in them. To-night when those who put us on their feet in the daytime, are sleeping in their beds, we all get up and walk and go walking where we walk in the daytime.'
"And in the middle of the night, when the people in the beds were sleeping, the shoes and the slippers and the boots everywhere walked out of the bedrooms and the closets. Along the sidewalks on the streets, up and down stairways, along hallways, the shoes and slippers and the boots tramped and marched and stumbled.
"Some walked pussyfoot, sliding easy and soft just like people in the daytime. Some walked clumping and clumping, coming down heavy on the heels and slow on the toes, just like people in the daytime.
​"Some turned their toes in and walked pigeon-toe, some spread their toes out and held their heels in, just like people in the daytime. Some ran glad and fast, some lagged slow and sorry.
"Now there was a little girl in the Village of Cream Puffs who came home from a dance that night. And she was tired from dancing round dances and square dances, one steps and two steps, toe dances and toe and heel dances, dances close up and dances far apart, she was so tired she took off only one slipper, tumbled onto her bed and went to sleep with one slipper on.
"She woke up in the morning when it was yet dark. And she went to the window and looked up in the sky and saw a Dancing Slipper Moon dancing far and high in the deep blue sea of the moon sky.
"'Oh—what a moon—what a dancing slipper of a moon!' she cried with a little song to herself.
​"She opened the window, saying again, 'Oh! what a moon!'—and kicked her foot with the slipper on it straight toward the moon.
"The slipper flew off and flew up and went on and on and up and up in the moonshine.
"It never came back, that slipper. It was never seen again. When they asked the girl about it she said, 'lt slipped off my foot and went up and up and the last I saw of it the slipper was going on straight to the moon.'"
And these are the explanations why fathers and mothers in the Rootabaga Country say to their girls growing up, "Never kick a slipper at the moon if it is the time of the Dancing Slipper Moon when the ends of the moon look like the toe and the heel of a dancer's foot."
# Rootabaga Stories/How the Hat Ashes Shovel Helped Snoo Foo

How the Hat Ashes Shovel Helped Snoo Foo
If you want to remember the names of all six of the Sniggers children, remember that the three biggest were named Blink, Swink and Jink but the three littlest ones were named Blunk, Swunk and Junk. One day last January the three biggest had a fuss with the three littlest. The fuss was about a new hat for Snoo Foo, the snow man, about what kind of a hat he should wear and how he should wear it. Blink, Swink and Jink said, "He wants a ​crooked hat put on straight." Blunk, Swunk and Junk said, "He wants a straight hat put on crooked." They fussed and fussed. Blink fussed with Blunk, Swink fussed with Swunk, and Jink fussed with Junk. The first ones to make up after the fuss were Jink and Junk. They decided the best way to settle the fuss. "Let's put a crooked hat on crooked," said Jink. "No, let's put a straight hat on straight," said Junk. Then they stood looking and looking into each other's shiny laughing eyes and then both of them exploded to each other at the same time, "Let's put on two hats, a crooked hat crooked and a straight hat straight."
Well, they looked around for hats. But there were not any hats anywhere, that is, no hats big enough for a snow man with a big head like Snoo Foo. So they went in the house and asked their mother for the hat ashes shovel. Of course, in most any other house, the mother would be all worried if six children came tramping and clomping in, banging the door ​and all six ejaculating to their mother at once, "Where is the hat ashes shovel?" But Missus Sniggers wasn't worried at all. She rubbed her chin with her finger and said softly, "Oh lah de dah, oh lah de dah, where is that hat ashes shovel, last week I had it when I was making a hat for Mister Sniggers; I remember I had that hat ashes shovel right up here over the clock, oh lah de dah, oh lah de dah. Go out and ring the front door bell," she said to Jink Sniggers. Jink ran away to the front door. And Missus Sniggers and the five children waited. Bling-bling the bell began ringing and—listen—the door of the clock opened and the hat ashes shovel fell out. "Oh lah de dah, get out of here in a hurry," said Missus Sniggers.
Well, the children ran out and dug a big pail of hat ashes with the hat ashes shovel. And they made two hats for Snoo Foo. One was a crooked hat. The other was a straight hat. And they put the crooked hat on crooked and the straight hat on straight. And there stood ​Snoo Foo in the front yard and everybody who came by on the street, he would take off his hat to them, the crooked hat with his arm crooked and the straight hat with his arm straight. That was the end of the fuss between the Sniggers children and it was Jink, the littlest one of the biggest, and Junk, the littlest one of the littlest, who settled the fuss by looking clean into each other's eyes and laughing. If you ever get into a fuss try this way of settling it.
# Rootabaga Stories/The Potato Face Blind Man Who Lost the Diamond Rabbit on His Gold Accordion

The Potato Face Blind Man Who Lost the Diamond Rabbit on His Gold Accordion
There was a Potato Face Blind Man used to play an accordion on the Main Street corner nearest the postoffice in the Village of Liver-and-Onions.
Any Ice Today came along and said, "It looks like it used to be an 18 carat gold accordion with rich pawnshop diamonds in it; it looks like it used to be a grand accordion once and not so grand now."
"Oh, yes, oh, yes, it was gold all over on the outside," said the Potato Face Blind Man, "and ​there was a diamond rabbit next to the handles on each side, two diamond rabbits."
"How do you mean diamond rabbits?" Any Ice Today asked.
"Ears, legs, head, feet, ribs, tail, all fixed out in diamonds to make a nice rabbit with his diamond chin on his diamond toenails. When I play good pieces so people cry hearing my accordion music, then I put my fingers over and feel of the rabbit's diamond chin on his diamond toenails, 'Attaboy, li'l bunny, attaboy, li'l bunny.'"
"Yes I hear you talking but it is like dream talking. I wonder why your accordion looks like somebody stole it and took it to a pawnshop and took it out and somebody stole it again and took it to a pawnshop and took it out and somebody stole it again. And they kept on stealing it and taking it out of the pawnshop and stealing it again till the gold wore off so it looks like a used-to-be-yesterday."
"Oh, yes, o-h, y-e-s, you are right. It is not ​like the accordion it used to be. It knows more knowledge than it used to know just the same as this Potato Face Blind Man knows more knowledge than he used to know."
"Tell me about it," said Any Ice Today.
"It is simple. If a blind man plays an accordion on the street to make people cry it makes them sad and when they are sad the gold goes away off the accordion. And if a blind man goes to sleep because his music is full of sleepy songs like the long wind in a sleepy valley, then while the blind man is sleeping the diamonds in the diamond rabbit all go away. I play a sleepy song and go to sleep and I wake up and the diamond ear of the diamond rabbit is gone. I play another sleepy song and go to sleep and wake up and the diamond tail of the diamond rabbit is gone. After a while all the diamond rabbits are gone, even the diamond chin sitting on the diamond toenails of the rabbits next to the handles of the accordion, even those are gone."
​"Is there anything I can do?" asked Any Ice Today.
"I do it myself," said the Potato Face Blind Man. "If I am too sorry I just play the sleepy song of the long wind going up the sleepy valleys. And that carries me away where I have time and money to dream about the new wonderful accordions and postoffices where everybody that gets a letter and everybody that don't get a letter stops and remembers the Potato Face Blind Man."
# Robinson v. Florida

Robinson v. Florida, 378 U.S. 153 (1964), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States reversed the convictions of several white and African American persons who were refused service at a restaurant based upon a prior Court decision, holding that a Florida regulation requiring a restaurant that employed or served persons of both races to have separate lavatory rooms resulted in the state becoming entangled in racial discriminatory activity in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.Warning: template has been deprecated.
United States Supreme Court
378 U.S. 153
Robinson v. Florida
Argued: Oct. 15, 1963. --- Decided: June 22, 1964
Alfred I. Hopkins, Miami Beach, Fla., for appellants.
Jack Greenberg, New York City, for appellants.
George R. Georgieff, Tallahassee, Fla., for appellee.
Ralph S. Spritzer, Washington, D.C., for the United States, as amicus curiae, by special leave of Court.
Mr. Justice BLACK delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# Robinson v. Fair

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United States Supreme Court
128 U.S. 53
Robinson v. Fair
[Statement of Case from pages 54-64 intentionally omitted]
J. C. Bates and John A. Campbell, for plaintiffs in error.
[Argument of Counsel from pages 64-76 intentionally omitted]
S. M. Wilson, for defendant in error.
Mr. Justice HARLAN, after stating the facts in the foregoing language, delivered the opinion of the court.

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# Robinson v. Holman

In Robinson v. Holman, 181 Ark. 428 (1930), the Arkansas Supreme Court held that a political party's exclusion of black citizens did not violate the equal protection clause in the Fourteenth Amendment.
Supreme Court of Arkansas
181 Ark. 428
Robinson v. Holman
Appeal from Pulaski Chancery Court
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Opinion delivered March 24, 1930.
* ELECTIONS—POLITICAL PARTY DEFINED.—A "political party" is an unincorporated voluntary association of persons sponsoring certain ideas of government or maintaining certain political principles or beliefs in the public policies of the government, and is in no sense a governmental instrumentality.
* ELECTIONS—EXCLUDING NEGROES PROM PARTY PRIMARY.—The Democratic Party of Arkansas, being a voluntary political organization, not an agency of the State, may prescribe rules and regulations defining qualifications of membership and providing that only white persons may become members and vote in the party primaries, without violating the Fourteenth or Fifteenth Amendments.
Appeal from Pulaski Chancery Court; Frank B. Dodge, Chancellor; affirmed.
Jno. A. Hibbler, Booker & Booker, and Scipio A. Jones, for appellant.
June P. Wooten and D.K. Hawhorne, for appellee.
[Opinion of the court by Justice EDGAR L. MCHANEY.]
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# Royal Naval Biography/Belchier, Nathaniel

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NATHANIEL BELCHIER, Esq. [Commander.]
Obtained the rank of lieutenant in 1794; served as such under Captain (now Sir Robert Waller) Otway, in the Trent 32; and commanded the boats of that frigate at the capture and destruction of a Spanish ship and three schooners, lying in shoal water, under the protection of a five-gun battery, at Porto Rico, in Mar. 1799. He afterwards served on the coast of Egypt, and was presented with the Turkish gold medal, in common with his brother officers. We next find him first of the Thetis frigate. Captain George Miller, by whom he is highly spoken of in an official letter addressed to the senior officer off Guadaloupe, reporting the capture of a French national corvette, le Nisus, and the destruction of the fortifications of the port of Des Hayes, Dec. 12th, 1809. He was advanced to the rank of commander, while serving as first lieutenant of the Neptune 98, at the Leeward Islands, Oct. 21st, 1810.
This officer married, April 28th, 1803, the daughter of the Rev. Edward Bryant, of Newport, co. Essex; and became a widower in May 1830.
# Royal Naval Biography/Bell, Charles

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CHARLES BELL, Esq. [Commander.]
Was made a lieutenant on the 9th Nov. 1821; and commander July 23d, 1830.
# Royal Naval Biography/Beckford, John Leigh

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JOHN LEIGH BECKFORD, Esq. [Commander.]
Son of F. L. Beckford, Esq., of Southampton. His first commission bears date Nov. 27th, 1810. He subsequently served under Captains Lucius Curtis and Bentinck C. Doyle, in the Madagascar frigate. His last appointment was, Oct. 2d, 1819, to be flag-lieutenant to Rear-Admiral (now Sir Robert Waller) Otway, commander-in-chief at Leith, where he continued for the usual period of three years. His promotion to the rank of commander took place on the 30th Nov. 1821.
This officer married, Nov. 6th, 1828, Harriet, fourth daughter of George Ward, Esq. of Northwood Park, Isle of Wight.
# Royal Naval Biography/Beecroft, Charles

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CHARLES BEECROFT, Esq. [Commander.]
A follower of the heroic Sir W. Sidney Smith, to whose notice he was first introduced by the lamented Captain John Westley Wright, and with whom, after receiving a severe ​wound, he was taken prisoner, near Havre, in April, 1796. He obtained the rank of lieutenant in 1802; and was most honorably mentioned by Sir Sidney, in his reports of the capture of the island of Capri, and the destruction of a Turkish squadron at the entrance of the Dardanelles, in May, 1806, and Feb. 1807. His commission as commander bore date Oct. 3d, 1809; and at the time of his decease, in 1825, he enjoyed a pension for his wounds, of £150 per annum.
# Royal Naval Biography/Beer, Thomas

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THOMAS BEER, Esq. [Commander.]
Was born at Stoke, near Plymouth, on the 18th Aug. 1787; and entered the navy, as midshipman on board the Royal Sovereign first rate, bearing the flag of Sir Alan (afterwards Lord) Gardner, on the Channel station, in Aug. 1796. He was made a lieutenant on the 4th May, 1810; ​and appointed to the Martin sloop, April 23d, 1811. We next find him commanding the Bream schooner; and lastly, employed in the suppression of smuggling on the Kentish coast, where he continued, under the orders of Captain William M‘Culloch, for a period of eight years. His promotion to the rank of commander took place July 29th, 1825.
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CHRISTOPHER BELL, Esq. [Post-Captain of 1812.]
We first find this officer serving as a lieutenant of the Pique frigate, Captain Charles B. H. Ross; and commanding three of her boats at the capture of a Spanish brig, pierced for 12 guns, and the destruction of a 3-gun battery, in Cabaret bay, Porto Rico, Nov. 1, 1806.
His promotion to the rank of Commander took place April 1, 1808. The capture of le Barbier de Seville, French lugger privateer, of 16 guns and 60 men, by the Phipps schooner, under his command, is thus described in a letter from him to Vice-Admiral George Campbell, dated Nov. 16, 1810:–
“Having weighed and proceeded to sea in H.M. sloop under nny command, agreeably to your order, immediately the tide slacked last evening, I have the honor to acquaint you, that before 12 o’clock, we were alongside a French lugger privateer, which led us close under Calais, and so near in shore, that I was obliged, although firing grape-shot into her, to give up the chase.
“As we saw, while pursuing her, two other luggers lying to windward. I thought, by beating up in shore of them, we might escape their notice, until far enough to fetch them. About 5 A.M. we had the pleasure of getting close to one of them, when an action commenced. The enemy, for a quarter of an hour, kept up an incessant fire of musketry. As I perceived his determination was to run on shore, and we were then in 3½; fathoms water, the only prospect of capturing her was to lay her on board. This was done, and, under the fire of our broadside. Lieutenant Robert Tryon, assisted by Mr. Wright, master’s-mate, in a most gallant manner headed the party of boarders, when the enemy, in a few minutes, surrendered * * * *. This capture has been attended with the loss ​of one seaman killed, and Lieutenant Tryon dangerously wounded. The enemy’s loss is severe, having 6 killed and 11 wounded.
“At day-light, we saw H.M. brig Zephyr steering down to us: Captain Dickens gave me every assistance in shifting the prisoners, and took the prize in tow. Our own running rigging being very much cut, and for the accommodation of the wounded, I was anxious to get into the Downs myself; but notwithstanding all exertions, the prize very soon went down, having received several shot from us between wind and water. I lament to hear that one of our men was drowned.”
Lieutenant Tryon, it appears, was wounded by one of the guns of the Phipps going off while he was on the enemy’s deck: the shot, a 12-pounder, shattered the bladebone of his left shoulder, carrying away the flesh close to the spine, laying the ribs bare, and occasioning a wound one foot long by seven inches broad. He died in Panton Square, London, Jan. 24, 1811.
Captain Bell’s post commission bears date Feb. 7, 1812.
Agents.– Messrs. Stilwell.