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Elsie Diederichs Duval (1892–1919) was a British suffragette. She was arrested many times throughout her life and in 1913 became the first woman to be released from Holloway Prison under the so-called 'Cat and Mouse Act'.
Lillie Lenton was born in Leicester in 1891, the eldest of five children born to Isaac Lenton (1867–1930), a carpenter-joiner, and his wife Mahalah Lenton (née Bee; 1864–1920), a housewife. On leaving school she trained to be a dancer, but, after hearing Emmeline Pankhurst speak, she " ... made up my mind that night that as soon as I was ...
The act's nickname of "Cat and Mouse Act", referring to the way the government seemed to play with prisoners as a cat may with a captured mouse, underlined how the cruelty of repeated releases and re-imprisonments turned the suffragettes from targets of scorn to objects of sympathy.
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Approving the renewal of import restrictions contained in the Burmese Freedom and Democracy Act of 2003, and for other purposes Pub. L. 110–53 (text) August 3, 2007 Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007: To provide for the implementation of the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission. Pub. L. 110–54 (text)
This act of kindness grew into "Operation Little Vittles," inspiring other pilots to join in. The campaign became a symbol of American goodwill and helped shift public perception of aid efforts in ...
The Born-Alive Infants Protection Act of 2002, which both chambers of Congress passed and then-President George W. Bush signed, established that federal legal protections that applied to "persons ...
Historians such as Charles A. Beard argue that No. 10 shows an explicit rejection by the Founding Fathers of the principles of direct democracy and factionalism, and argue that Madison suggests that a representative democracy is more effective against partisanship and factionalism. [3] [4]